
Marius Goring
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1912-05-23
Day of Death
1998-09-30 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Marius Goring
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.
Known For
Acting
(1990)
Strike It Rich
as Blixon
(1984)
The Late Nancy Irving
as Angus Aragon
(1982)
Cymbeline
as Sicilius Leonatus
(1978)
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as King George V
(1978)
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
as Raimondo Casarès
(1971)
Zeppelin
as Professor Christian Altschul
(1970)
First Love
as Dr. Lushin
(1968)
The Girl on a Motorcycle
as Rebecca’s Father
(1968)
Subterfuge
as Shevik
(1968)
Der Monat der fallenden Blätter
as Erster Geheimagent
(1967)
The 25th Hour
as Colonel Muller
(1967)
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
as Theodore Maxtible
(1966)
A Walk in the Sea
as Reverend Harrup
(1965)
The Crooked Road
as Harlequin
(1965)
Up from the Beach
as German Commandant
(1962)
The Inspector
as Thorens
(1962)
The Devil's Agent
as General Greenhahn
(1962)
The Secret Thread
as Arnold Reed
(1961)
The Devil's Daffodil
as Oliver Milburgh
(1961)
Life of Adolf Hitler
as Narrator
(1961)
The Unstoppable Man
as Inspector Hazelrigg
(1960)
Exodus
as Von Storch
(1960)
Beyond the Curtain
as Hans Körtner
(1959)
The Angry Hills
as Colonel Elrick Oberg
(1959)
Desert Mice
as German Major
(1959)
Whirlpool
as Georg
(1959)
The Treasure of San Teresa
as Rudi Siebert
(1959)
Asmodée
as Blaise Lebel
(1958)
I Was Monty's Double
as Karl Nielson
(1958)
The Moonraker
as Colonel John Beaumont
(1958)
Son of Robin Hood
as Chester
(1958)
Rx Murder
as Doctor Henry Dysert
(1958)
An Ideal Husband
as Lord Goring
(1957)
Ill Met by Moonlight
as Major General Kreipe
(1957)
The Truth About Women
as Otto Kerstein
(1957)
Many Mansions
as Lester Hockley
(1956)
Gaslicht
as Jack Manningham
(1956)
(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
(1954)
Tonight in Britain
as Self
(1953)
Rough Shoot
as Hiart
(1952)
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
as Inspector Lucas
(1952)
The Magic Box
as House Agent
(1952)
So Little Time
as Colonel Günther von Hohensee
(1952)
Nights on the Road
as Kurt Willbrand
(1951)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
as Reggie Demarest
(1951)
Circle of Danger
as Sholto Lewis
(1950)
Odette
as Colonel Henri
(1950)
Highly Dangerous
as Commandant Anton Razinski
(1949)
Box for One
as The Caller
(1948)
The Red Shoes
as Julian Craster
(1948)
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as Vincent Perrin
(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)
Pastor Hall
as Fritz Gerte
(1940)
The Case of the Frightened Lady
as Willie, Lord Lebanon
(1939)
The Spy in Black
as Lieutenant Felix Schuster
(1939)
Flying Fifty-Five
as Charles Barrington
(1938)
The Bear
as Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a landowner
(1938)
Dead Men Tell No Tales
as Greening
(1938)
Consider Your Verdict
as The Novelist
(1936)
Rembrandt
as Baron Leivens (uncredited)
(1936)
The Amateur Gentleman
as Bit Part (uncredited)