Marius Goring
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 23, 1912
- Died
- September 30, 1998 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Biography
Marius Re Goring CBE FRSL (May 23, 1912 – September 30, 1998) was an English stage and screen actor. He is the son of Dr Charles Buckman Goring, a renowned physician and criminologist, and Kate Winifred (née MacDonald), a former suffragette and talented pianist. Marius Goring was educated at The Perse School, Cambridge, England and at universities in Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Paris (The Sorbonne) where he perfected his French and German - he became fluent in both languages. He studied for the stage under Harcourt Williams at the Old Vic dramatic school, London. His first stage appearance was a fairy at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge in 1925 at the age of twelve in "Crossings: A Fairy Play" the only play written by Walter De La Mare. His first London appearance was at the Rudolph Steiner Hall in December 1927 as Harlequin in one of Jean Sterling McKinlay’s Children’s Matinees. He performed regularly at the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells in the 1930s and later toured France and Germany. He played Macbeth, Romeo, Trip in School for Scandal and the Chorus in Henry V with Laurence Olivier amongst others. His first West End appearance was at the Shaftesbury Theatre in May 1934 in The Voysey Inheritance. He joined the army in July 1940 but was seconded the following year to the BBC where he became supervisor of productions for its German Service. He made regular propaganda broadcasts to Germany. Most of his radio propaganda work was done under the alias Charles Richardson (using his father’s first name and his grandmother’s maiden name) as the name Goring wasn't too popular during the war (Hermann Göring was the commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe). In 1941 he was married for the second time to the renowned German Jewish actress Lucie Mannheim who had to flee Germany in 1934 after the Nazis came to power. They worked together on stage and in films and television many times over the following years. He was a founder member of British Equity in 1929, being on its council for decades from 1949 and was elected its vice president three times. He had a contentious relationship with the union from the 1970s, taking them to court on a number of issues, the last of which he lost in the High Court and was nearly bankrupted by the court costs. Marius was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1979 and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1991. He died from stomach cancer in 1998 aged 86 at his home in Rushlake Green, East Sussex, survived by his third wife, Prudence FitzGerald, a television producer/director who had directed him in 18 episodes of The Expert and his only child, a daughter from his first marriage, Phyllida.
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Filmography
Strike It Rich
Movie · as Blixon
The Late Nancy Irving
Movie · as Angus Aragon
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
TV · as Angus Aragon · 1 ep
Cymbeline
Movie · as Sicilius Leonatus
The Old Men at the Zoo
TV · as Dr Emile Englander · 5 eps
The Year of the French
TV · as Lord Glenthorne · 1 ep
Levkas Man
TV · as Dr. Pieter Gerrard · 6 eps
Hammer House of Horror
TV · as Heinz · 1 ep
Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as Dr John Landy · 1 ep
House of Caradus
TV · as Magnus Bronsky · 1 ep
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Movie · as King George V
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Movie · as Raimondo Casarès
Edward and Mrs Simpson
TV · as King George V · 2 eps
Holocaust
TV · as Heinrich Palitz · 2 eps
Wilde Alliance
TV · as Rex · 1 ep
Fall of Eagles
TV · as Von Hindenburg · 2 eps
Zeppelin
Movie · as Professor Christian Altschul
First Love
Movie · as Dr. Lushin
The Girl on a Motorcycle
Movie · as Rebecca’s Father
Der Monat der fallenden Blätter
Movie · as Erster Geheimagent
Subterfuge
Movie · as Shevik
The Expert
TV · as Dr John Hardy · 62 eps
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
TV · as Mme Sacramento · 1 ep
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Movie · as Theodore Maxtible
The 25th Hour
Movie · as Colonel Muller
Sleeping Dog
Movie · as Sir Hubert
The Revenue Men
TV · as Kersten · 1 ep
Man in a Suitcase
TV · as Henri Thibaud · 1 ep
Omnibus
TV · as Self - Interviewee · 1 ep
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
TV · as Lord Linchmere · 1 ep
A Walk in the Sea
Movie · as Reverend Harrup
Too Many Cooks
Movie · as Wattari
Thirteen Against Fate
TV · as Monsieur Hire · 1 ep
The Crooked Road
Movie · as Harlequin
Up from the Beach
Movie · as German Commandant
Out of the Unknown
TV · as Wattari · 1 ep
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · as Mr Ponge, The Interrogator · 1 ep
The Mask of Janus
TV · as Dr. Kapaka · 1 ep
The Great War
TV · as Various (voice) · 26 eps
The Wednesday Play
TV · as Reverend Harrup, Sir Hubert · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Theodore Maxtible · 6 eps
First Night
TV · as Grieve Wishart · 1 ep
24-Hour Call
TV · as Sam Bullivant · 1 ep
Love Story
TV · as Robert Langley · 1 ep
The Inspector
Movie · as Thorens
The Devil's Agent
Movie · as General Greenhahn
The Secret Thread
Movie · as Arnold Reed
The Life of Adolf Hitler
Movie · as Narrator
The Unstoppable Man
Movie · as Inspector Hazelrigg
The Devil's Daffodil
Movie · as Oliver Milburgh
A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
Movie · as Laye-Parker
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Movie · as Laye-Parker
Drama 61-67
TV · as Mervyn, Captain · 1 ep
Exodus
Movie · as Von Storch
Beyond the Curtain
Movie · as Hans Körtner
Sunday-Night Play
TV · as Alexei Turbin, Laye-Parker, John Lock, Harras, General of the Luftwaffe · 1 ep
Maigret
TV · as Peter the Lett · 1 ep
The Treasure of San Teresa
Movie · as Rudi Siebert
Whirlpool
Movie · as Georg
The Angry Hills
Movie · as Colonel Elrick Oberg
Desert Mice
Movie · as German Major
Asmodée
Movie · as Blaise Lebel
International Detective
TV · as Ferdie Steibel · 1 ep
The Third Man
TV · as Colonel Dimonella · 1 ep
I Was Monty's Double
Movie · as Karl Nielson
The Moonraker
Movie · as Colonel John Beaumont
The Son of Robin Hood
Movie · as Chester
Rx Murder
Movie · as Doctor Henry Dysert
An Ideal Husband
Movie · as Lord Goring
Ill Met by Moonlight
Movie · as Major General Kreipe
The Truth About Women
Movie · as Otto Kerstein
Many Mansions
Movie · as Lester Hockley
Gaslicht
Movie · as Jack Manningham
The Magic Carpet
Movie
Quentin Durward
Movie · as Count Philip De Creville
Break in the Circle
Movie · as Baron Keller
Lilli Palmer Theatre
TV · as Major Edward Carter, Reinhardt · 1 ep
ITV Play of the Week
TV · as John Hagerman, Purcell, Charles Norbury, Robert Cosgrove, Lewis Eliot · 1 ep
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
TV · as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel · 18 eps
The Barefoot Contessa
Movie · as Alberto Bravano
The Mirror and Markheim
Movie · as Narrator
Tonight in Britain
Movie · as Self
Rough Shoot
Movie · as Hiart
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents
TV · as Nicol Pascal · 1 ep
You Are There
TV · as Oliver Cromwell · 1 ep
Nights on the Road
Movie · as Kurt Willbrand
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Movie · as Inspector Lucas
So Little Time
Movie · as Colonel Günther von Hohensee
The Magic Box
Movie · as House Agent
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Movie · as Reggie Demarest
Circle of Danger
Movie · as Sholto Lewis
Odette
Movie · as Colonel Henri
Highly Dangerous
Movie · as Commandant Anton Razinski
Sunday Night Theatre
TV · as Crystof Wolters, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Hjalmar Ekdal, Robert Clive, Tommy Savidge, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, General Harras, Chorus · 1 ep
Box for One
Movie · as The Caller
The Red Shoes
Movie · as Julian Craster
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Movie · as Vincent Perrin
Take My Life
Movie · as Sidney Fleming
A Matter of Life and Death
Movie · as Conductor 71
Night Boat to Dublin
Movie · as Frederick Jannings
The Night Invader
Movie · as Oberleutenant
Kill or Be Killed
Movie · as German Sniper (voice)
The Big Blockade
Movie · as German Propaganda Officer
The Case of the Frightened Lady
Movie · as Willie, Lord Lebanon
Pastor Hall
Movie · as Fritz Gerte
The Spy in Black
Movie · as Lieutenant Felix Schuster
Flying Fifty-Five
Movie · as Charles Barrington
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Movie · as Greening
The Bear
Movie · as Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a landowner
Consider Your Verdict
Movie · as The Novelist
The Amateur Gentleman
Movie · as Bit Part (uncredited)
Rembrandt
Movie · as Baron Leivens (uncredited)