Education
Marks attended Holloway Comprehensive School (formerly Holloway County Grammar School until 1955).
Marks attended Holloway Comprehensive School (formerly Holloway County Grammar School until 1955).
Prior to becoming a sitcom writer he was a reporter for a local weekly paper, the Tottenham Weekly Herald and, according to information he provided to Who"s Who, he was also briefly a staff writer for The Sunday Times in the midto late 1970s. Marks subsequently wrote with Gran the television comedy-drama Shine on Harvey Moon (1982-1985, 1995) and the popular sitcoms, The New Statesman (1987-1992), Birds of a Feather (1989-1998,2014) and Goodnight Sweetheart (1993-1999). They are also the authors of Prudence at Number 10, a fictional diary written as though by a P.A. of United Kingdom prime minister Gordon Brown.
Their theatre works include Dreamboats and Petticoats, Save The Last Dance Foreign Maine and Dreamboats and Miniskirts.
Marks is an Arsenal fan and wrote the book "A Fan Foreign All Seasons" (1999), a diary of his life as a writer and an Arsenal supporter. His father was one of over 43 people who died in the Moorgate tube crash of 1975.
In 2006 Marks made a documentary for Channel 4 about his father and the crash. At the time of the crash, Marks was a freelance writer and in the documentary he stated that he had spent a year investigating the crash for freelance reports that appeared in The Sunday Times.
Rejecting the verdict of accidental death by the coroner"s jury and the official in-depth report, Marks advocated his theory that the driver of the train had committed suicide by deliberately crashing the train.