Marius Goring

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.

Strike It Rich
1990
Blixon
The Late Nancy Irving
1984
Angus Aragon
Cymbeline
1982
Sicilius Leonatus
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978
King George V
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978
Raimondo Casarès
Zeppelin
1971
Professor Christian Altschul
First Love
1970
Dr. Lushin
The Girl on a Motorcycle
1968
Rebecca’s Father
Der Monat der fallenden Blätter
1968
Erster Geheimagent
Subterfuge
1968
Shevik
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
1967
Theodore Maxtible
The 25th Hour
1967
Colonel Muller
The Crooked Road
1965
Harlequin
Up from the Beach
1965
German Commandant
The Inspector
1962
Thorens
The Devil's Agent
1962
General Greenhahn
Life of Adolf Hitler
1961
Narrator
The Unstoppable Man
1961
Inspector Hazelrigg
The Devil's Daffodil
1961
Oliver Milburgh
Exodus
1960
Von Storch
Beyond the Curtain
1960
Hans Körtner
The Treasure of San Teresa
1959
Rudi Siebert
Whirlpool
1959
Georg
The Angry Hills
1959
Colonel Elrick Oberg
Desert Mice
1959
German Major
I Was Monty's Double
1958
Karl Nielson
The Moonraker
1958
Colonel John Beaumont
Son of Robin Hood
1958
Chester
Rx Murder
1958
Doctor Henry Dysert
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957
Major General Kreipe
The Truth About Women
1957
Otto Kerstein
Quentin Durward
1955
Count Philip De Creville
Break in the Circle
1955
Baron Keller
The Barefoot Contessa
1954
Alberto Bravano
The Mirror and Markheim
1954
Narrator
Rough Shoot
1953
Hiart
Nights on the Road
1952
Kurt Willbrand
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
1952
Inspector Lucas
So Little Time
1952
Colonel Günther von Hohensee
The Magic Box
1952
House Agent
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951
Reggie Demarest
Circle of Danger
1951
Sholto Lewis
Odette
1950
Colonel Henri
Highly Dangerous
1950
Commandant Anton Razinski
The Red Shoes
1948
Julian Craster
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948
Vincent Perrin
Take My Life
1947
Sidney Fleming
A Matter of Life and Death
1946
Conductor 71
Night Boat to Dublin
1946
Frederick Jannings
Kill or be Killed
1942
German Sniper (voice)
The Big Blockade
1942
German Propaganda Officer
The Case of the Frightened Lady
1940
Willie, Lord Lebanon
Pastor Hall
1940
Fritz Gerte
The Spy in Black
1939
Lieutenant Felix Schuster
Flying Fifty-Five
1939
Charles Barrington
Dead Men Tell No Tales
1938
Greening
The Amateur Gentleman
1936
Bit Part (uncredited)
Rembrandt
1936
Baron Leivens (uncredited)