Marius Goring

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK, 1912-05-23

Died: 1998-09-30

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1936	The Amateur Gentleman	Bit Part (uncredited)	40
2	1936	Rembrandt	Baron Leivens (uncredited)	68
3	1938	Dead Men Tell No Tales	Greening	0
4	1938	The Bear	Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a landowner	0
5	1938	Consider Your Verdict	The Novelist	0
6	1939	Flying Fifty-Five	Charles Barrington	76
7	1939	The Spy in Black	Lieutenant Felix Schuster	64
8	1940	Pastor Hall	Fritz Gerte	77
9	1940	The Case of the Frightened Lady	Willie, Lord Lebanon	63
10	1942	Kill or be Killed	German Sniper (voice)	40
11	1942	The Big Blockade	German Propaganda Officer	65
12	1943	The Night Invader	Oberleutenant	0
13	1946	Night Boat to Dublin	Frederick Jannings	63
14	1946	A Matter of Life and Death	Conductor 71	78
15	1947	Take My Life	Sidney Fleming	72
16	1948	The Red Shoes	Julian Craster	80
17	1948	Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill	Vincent Perrin	77
18	1949	Box for One	The Caller	0
19	1950	Odette	Colonel Henri	62
20	1950	Highly Dangerous	Commandant Anton Razinski	60
21	1951	Pandora and the Flying Dutchman	Reggie Demarest	66
22	1951	Circle of Danger	Sholto Lewis	65
23	1952	The Magic Box	House Agent	63
24	1952	Nights on the Road	Kurt Willbrand	77
25	1952	So Little Time	Colonel Günther von Hohensee	74
26	1952	The Man Who Watched Trains Go By	Inspector Lucas	60
27	1953	Rough Shoot	Hiart	62
28	1954	The Mirror and Markheim	Narrator	0
29	1954	Tonight in Britain	Self	0
30	1954	The Barefoot Contessa	Alberto Bravano	68
31	1955	Break in the Circle	Baron Keller	50
32	1955	Quentin Durward	Count Philip De Creville	60
33	1956	The Magic Carpet		0
34	1956	Gaslicht	Jack Manningham	0
35	1957	Ill Met by Moonlight	Major General Kreipe	61
36	1957	Many Mansions	Lester Hockley	0
37	1957	The Truth About Women	Otto Kerstein	59
38	1958	Rx Murder	Doctor Henry Dysert	80
39	1958	An Ideal Husband	Lord Goring	100
40	1958	The Moonraker	Colonel John Beaumont	68
41	1958	I Was Monty's Double	Karl Nielson	69
42	1958	Son of Robin Hood	Chester	44
43	1959	Desert Mice	German Major	60
44	1959	Whirlpool	Georg	62
45	1959	Asmodée	Blaise Lebel	0
46	1959	The Treasure of San Teresa	Rudi Siebert	62
47	1959	The Angry Hills	Colonel Elrick Oberg	45
48	1960	Beyond the Curtain	Hans Körtner	60
49	1960	Exodus	Von Storch	67
50	1961	The Unstoppable Man	Inspector Hazelrigg	0
51	1961	The Devil's Daffodil	Oliver Milburgh	56
52	1961	Life of Adolf Hitler	Narrator	69
53	1962	The Secret Thread	Arnold Reed	0
54	1962	The Inspector	Thorens	67
55	1962	The Devil's Agent	General Greenhahn	64
56	1965	The Crooked Road	Harlequin	50
57	1965	Up from the Beach	German Commandant	80
58	1966	A Walk in the Sea	Reverend Harrup	0
59	1967	The 25th Hour	Colonel Muller	77
60	1967	Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks	Theodore Maxtible	84
61	1968	Der Monat der fallenden Blätter	Erster Geheimagent	0
62	1968	The Girl on a Motorcycle	Rebecca’s Father	54
63	1968	Subterfuge	Shevik	47
64	1970	First Love	Dr. Lushin	52
65	1971	Zeppelin	Professor Christian Altschul	62
66	1978	Little Girl in Blue Velvet	Raimondo Casarès	45
67	1978	Edward & Mrs. Simpson	King George V	100
68	1982	Cymbeline	Sicilius Leonatus	66
69	1984	The Late Nancy Irving	Angus Aragon	50
70	1990	Strike It Rich	Blixon	50

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Crystof Wolters	35
2	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	35
3	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Hjalmar Ekdal	35
4	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Robert Clive	35
5	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Tommy Savidge	35
6	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Archbishop Thomas Cranmer	35
7	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	General Harras	35
8	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Chorus	35
9	1953	Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents	Nicol Pascal	60
10	1955	Lilli Palmer Theatre	Major Edward Carter	0
11	1955	Lilli Palmer Theatre	Reinhardt	0
12	1955	ITV Play of the Week	John Hagerman	40
13	1955	ITV Play of the Week	Purcell	40
14	1955	ITV Play of the Week	Charles Norbury	40
15	1955	ITV Play of the Week	Robert Cosgrove	40
16	1955	ITV Play of the Week	Lewis Eliot	40
17	1955	The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel	Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel	76
18	1959	The Third Man	Colonel Dimonella	67
19	1959	International Detective	Ferdie Steibel	70
20	1960	Sunday-Night Play	Alexei Turbin	0
21	1960	Sunday-Night Play	Laye-Parker	0
22	1960	Sunday-Night Play	John Lock	0
23	1960	Sunday-Night Play	Harras, General of the Luftwaffe	0
24	1960	Maigret	Peter the Lett	69
25	1961	Drama 61-67	Mervyn	0
26	1961	Drama 61-67	Captain	0
27	1963	24-Hour Call	Sam Bullivant	0
28	1963	Love Story	Robert Langley	0
29	1963	First Night	Grieve Wishart	0
30	1963	Doctor Who	Theodore Maxtible	79
31	1964	The Great War		79
32	1964	The Wednesday Play	Reverend Harrup	45
33	1964	The Wednesday Play	Sir Hubert	45
34	1965	Out of the Unknown	Wattari	70
35	1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Mr Ponge	38
36	1965	The Mask of Janus	Dr. Kapaka	60
37	1966	Thirteen Against Fate	Monsieur Hire	100
38	1967	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Lord Linchmere	0
39	1967	The Revenue Men	Kersten	10
40	1967	Man in a Suitcase	Henri Thibaud	70
41	1967	Omnibus	Self - Interviewee	72
42	1968	Les Dossiers de l'Agence O	Mme Sacramento	100
43	1968	The Expert	Dr John Hardy	100
44	1974	Fall of Eagles	Von Hindenburg	68
45	1978	Wilde Alliance	Rex	55
46	1978	Holocaust	Heinrich Palitz	74
47	1978	Edward and Mrs Simpson	King George V	62
48	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Sicilius Leonatus	60
49	1979	House of Caradus	Magnus Bronsky	75
50	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Dr John Landy	67
51	1980	Hammer House of Horror	Heinz	71
52	1981	Levkas Man	Dr. Pieter Gerrard	0
53	1982	The Year of the French	Lord Glenthorne	0
54	1983	The Old Men at the Zoo	Dr Emile Englander	50
55	1983	The Old Men at the Zoo	Emile Englander	50
56	1984	Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense	Angus Aragon	64

Marius Goring

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