Johnny Marks

Johnny Marks was born on Nov 10, 1909 in USA. Johnny Marks's big-screen debut came with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer directed by Larry Roemer in 1964. Johnny Marks is known for The Tiny Tree directed by Chuck Couch, Buddy Ebsen stars as Squire Badger (Narrator) and Paul Winchell as Turtle. The upcoming new movie Johnny Marks plays is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys which will be released on Oct 30, 2001.

You may not know his name, at least not right away, but you've surely heard at least one of Johnny Marks's songs at Christmastime. The brother-in-law of Robert L. May, who wrote the original story of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," it was he who set the story to music. After failing to sell the song to, among others, Bing Crosby, Marks eventually found a enthusiastic listener in the person of singing cowboy Gene Autry. Autry's Columbia recording of the song, in 1947, became the biggest hit of his career and made both men (and May, who owned the rights to the original story) very wealthy.