Arthur Marks
| Arthur Marks | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 2, 1927 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film director, writer, producer |
| Spouse(s) | Phyllis Marie Lehman |
Arthur Ronald Marks (born August 2, 1927) is an American film and television director, writer and producer best known for his work in the blaxploitation genre, directing films such as Togetherness, Bonnie's Kids, Detroit 9000, Friday Foster, Bucktown, The Monkey Hu$tle, and J. D.'s Revenge. He also directed and produced numerous episodes of the American legal drama Perry Mason as well as episodes of Starsky & Hutch, Mannix, I Spy, My Friend Tony, and The Dukes of Hazzard.
Arthur Marks was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1927 to parents who had moved to Hollywood to find work in the film industry. His father, David Marks, worked a series of film jobs, from sound man to assistant director, on films like Hell's Angels and The Wizard of Oz, spending the last 30 years of his career at MGM. As a child, Marks frequently appeared as an unbilled extra in films such as Boy's Town and The Good Earth and the Andy Hardy series. After serving in the Merchant Marines during World War II and briefly attending USC as a journalism major, Marks dropped out of college and took a job with the MGM production department. He did production work on 75 MGM films over the next three years, eventually working as an assistant director at Columbia Studios and doing uncredited reshoots in post-production for The Lady From Shanghai and The Caine Mutiny, as well as numerous other films, Westerns and serials, & numerous Feature Films before beginning his own career as a director. During the early 1950s, he briefly left Hollywood to serve in the United States Navy during the Korean War.
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