Marius Goring
Marius Re Goring CBE FRSL (23 May 1912 – 30 September 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.
Known For
Credits
- 1990 · Strike It Rich as Blixon
- 1984 · The Late Nancy Irving as Angus Aragon
- 1984 · Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense as Angus Aragon
- 1983 · The Old Men at the Zoo as Dr Emile Englander
- 1982 · Cymbeline as Sicilius Leonatus
- 1982 · The Year of the French as Lord Glenthorne
- 1981 · Levkas Man as Dr. Pieter Gerrard
- 1980 · Hammer House of Horror as Heinz
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Dr John Landy
- 1979 · House of Caradus as Magnus Bronsky
- 1978 · BBC Television Shakespeare as
- 1978 · Edward and Mrs Simpson as King George V
- 1978 · Edward & Mrs. Simpson as King George V
- 1978 · Little Girl in Blue Velvet as Raimondo Casarès
- 1978 · Holocaust as Heinrich Palitz
- 1978 · Wilde Alliance as Rex
- 1974 · Fall of Eagles as Von Hindenburg
- 1971 · Zeppelin as Professor Christian Altschul
- 1970 · First Love as Dr. Lushin
- 1968 · Subterfuge as Shevik
- 1968 · The Expert as Dr John Hardy
- 1968 · The Girl on a Motorcycle as Rebecca’s Father
- 1968 · Les Dossiers de l'Agence O as Mme Sacramento
- 1968 · Der Monat der fallenden Blätter as Erster Geheimagent
- 1967 · Man in a Suitcase as Henri Thibaud
- 1967 · Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks as Theodore Maxtible
- 1967 · The 25th Hour as Colonel Muller
- 1967 · The Revenue Men as Kersten
- 1966 · Thirteen Against Fate as Monsieur Hire
- 1966 · A Walk in the Sea as Reverend Harrup
- 1965 · The Mask of Janus as Dr Kapaka
- 1965 · Thirty-Minute Theatre as Mr Ponge
- 1965 · Out of the Unknown as Wattari
- 1965 · Up from the Beach as German Commandant
- 1965 · The Crooked Road as Harlequin
- 1964 · The Wednesday Play as Reverend Harrup
- 1964 · The Great War as
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Theodore Maxtible
- 1963 · First Night as Grieve Wishart
- 1963 · Love Story as Robert Langley
- 1963 · 24-Hour Call as Sam Bullivant
- 1962 · The Devil's Agent as General Greenhahn
- 1962 · The Inspector as Thorens
- 1962 · The Secret Thread as Arnold Reed
- 1961 · Life of Adolf Hitler as Narrator
- 1961 · The Devil's Daffodil as Oliver Milburgh
- 1961 · The Unstoppable Man as Inspector Hazelrigg
- 1961 · Drama 61-67 as Captain
- 1961 · Drama 61-67 as Mervyn
- 1960 · Exodus as Von Storch
- 1960 · Maigret as Peter the Lett
- 1960 · Sunday-Night Play as Alexei Turbin
- 1960 · Sunday-Night Play as Laye-Parker
- 1960 · Sunday-Night Play as John Lock
- 1960 · Sunday-Night Play as Harras, General of the Luftwaffe
- 1960 · Beyond the Curtain as Hans Körtner
- 1959 · International Detective as Ferdie Steibel
- 1959 · The Third Man as Colonel Dimonella
- 1959 · The Angry Hills as Colonel Elrick Oberg
- 1959 · The Treasure of San Teresa as Rudi Siebert
- 1959 · Asmodée as Blaise Lebel
- 1959 · Whirlpool as Georg
- 1959 · Desert Mice as German Major
- 1958 · Son of Robin Hood as Chester
- 1958 · I Was Monty's Double as Karl Nielson
- 1958 · The Moonraker as Colonel John Beaumont
- 1958 · An Ideal Husband as Lord Goring
- 1958 · Rx Murder as Doctor Henry Dysert
- 1957 · The Truth About Women as Otto Kerstein
- 1957 · Many Mansions as Lester Hockley
- 1957 · Ill Met by Moonlight as Major General Kreipe
- 1956 · Gaslicht as Jack Manningham
- 1956 · The Magic Carpet as
- 1955 · The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
- 1955 · ITV Play of the Week as John Hagerman
- 1955 · ITV Play of the Week as Purcell
- 1955 · ITV Play of the Week as Charles Norbury
- 1955 · ITV Play of the Week as Lewis Eliot
- 1955 · ITV Play of the Week as Robert Cosgrove
- 1955 · Lilli Palmer Theatre as Reinhardt
- 1955 · Lilli Palmer Theatre as Major Edward Carter
- 1955 · Quentin Durward as Count Philip De Creville
- 1955 · Break in the Circle as Baron Keller
- 1954 · The Barefoot Contessa as Alberto Bravano
- 1954 · The Mirror and Markheim as Narrator
- 1953 · Rough Shoot as Hiart
- 1953 · Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents as Nicol Pascal
- 1952 · The Man Who Watched Trains Go By as Inspector Lucas
- 1952 · So Little Time as Colonel Günther von Hohensee
- 1952 · Nights on the Road as Kurt Willbrand
- 1952 · The Magic Box as House Agent
- 1951 · Circle of Danger as Sholto Lewis
- 1951 · Pandora and the Flying Dutchman as Reggie Demarest
- 1950 · Highly Dangerous as Commandant Anton Razinski
- 1950 · Odette as Colonel Henri
- 1950 · Sunday Night Theatre as Tommy Savidge
- 1950 · Sunday Night Theatre as Chorus
- 1950 · Sunday Night Theatre as Hjalmar Ekdal
- 1950 · Sunday Night Theatre as General Harras
- 1950 · Sunday Night Theatre as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
- 1950 · Sunday Night Theatre as Crystof Wolters
- 1950 · Sunday Night Theatre as Robert Clive
- 1950 · Sunday Night Theatre as Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- 1949 · Box for One as The Caller
- 1948 · Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill as Vincent Perrin
- 1948 · The Red Shoes as Julian Craster
- 1947 · Take My Life as Sidney Fleming
- 1946 · A Matter of Life and Death as Conductor 71
- 1946 · Night Boat to Dublin as Frederick Jannings
- 1943 · The Night Invader as Oberleutenant
- 1942 · The Big Blockade as German Propaganda Officer
- 1942 · Kill or be Killed as German Sniper (voice)
- 1940 · The Case of the Frightened Lady as Willie, Lord Lebanon
- 1940 · Pastor Hall as Fritz Gerte
- 1939 · The Spy in Black as Lieutenant Felix Schuster
- 1939 · Flying Fifty-Five as Charles Barrington
- 1938 · Consider Your Verdict as The Novelist
- 1938 · The Bear as Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a landowner
- 1938 · Dead Men Tell No Tales as Greening
- 1936 · Rembrandt as Baron Leivens (uncredited)
- 1936 · The Amateur Gentleman as Bit Part (uncredited)