Marius Goring

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1912-05-23

Deathday 1998-09-30 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK

Also Known As Marius Re Goring, Мариус Горинг

Marius Goring

Biography

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

Actor

1990
Strike It Rich

as Blixon

1984
The Late Nancy Irving

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

1979
Tales of the Unexpected

as Dr John Landy

1979
House of Caradus

as Magnus Bronsky

1978
Edward & Mrs. Simpson

as King George V

1978
Little Girl in Blue Velvet

as Raimondo Casarès

1978
Edward and Mrs Simpson

as King George V

1978
Holocaust

as Heinrich Palitz

1978
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 Girl on a Motorcycle

as Rebecca’s Father

1968
Der Monat der fallenden Blätter

as Erster Geheimagent

1968
The Expert

as Dr John Hardy

1968
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

as Mme Sacramento

1967
1967
The 25th Hour

as Colonel Muller

1967
Man in a Suitcase

as Henri Thibaud

1967
The Revenue Men

as Kersten

1966
A Walk in the Sea

as Reverend Harrup

1966
Thirteen Against Fate

as Monsieur Hire

1965
Up from the Beach

as German Commandant

1965
The Crooked Road

as Harlequin

1965
The Mask of Janus

as Dr Kapaka

1965
1965
1964
The Wednesday Play

as Reverend Harrup

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
1961
The Devil's Daffodil

as Oliver Milburgh

1961
The Unstoppable Man

as Inspector Hazelrigg

1961
Drama 61-67

as Mervyn

1961
Drama 61-67

as Captain

1960
Exodus

as Von Storch

1960
Beyond the Curtain

as Hans Körtner

1960
Maigret

as Peter the Lett

1960
Sunday-Night Play

as Laye-Parker

1960
Sunday-Night Play

as Alexei Turbin

1960
Sunday-Night Play

as Harras, General of the Luftwaffe

1960
Sunday-Night Play

as John Lock

1959
The Angry Hills

as Colonel Elrick Oberg

1959
1959
Asmodée

as Blaise Lebel

1959
Whirlpool

as Georg

1959
Desert Mice

as German Major

1959
International Detective

as Ferdie Steibel

1959
The Third Man

as Colonel Dimonella

1958
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

1955
Quentin Durward

as Count Philip De Creville

1955
Break in the Circle

as Baron Keller

1955
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel

1955
1955
ITV Play of the Week

as Charles Norbury

1955
ITV Play of the Week

as John Hagerman

1955
ITV Play of the Week

as Robert Cosgrove

1955
ITV Play of the Week

as Lewis Eliot

1955
1955
Lilli Palmer Theatre

as Major Edward Carter

1954
The Barefoot Contessa

as Alberto Bravano

1954
1953
Rough Shoot

as Hiart

1952
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
1950
Highly Dangerous

as Commandant Anton Razinski

1950
Odette

as Colonel Henri

1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Tommy Savidge

1950
1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as General Harras

1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Hjalmar Ekdal

1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Crystof Wolters

1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Robert Clive

1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1950
Sunday Night Theatre

as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer

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
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
1936
Rembrandt

as Baron Leivens (uncredited)

1936
The Amateur Gentleman

as Bit Part (uncredited)