Marius Goring
Acting • Born 1912-05-23 – Died 1998-09-30
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.
Filmography
128 credits
Exodus
Movie • 1960
Von Storch
Nights on the Road
Movie • 1952
Kurt Willbrand
The Case of the Frightened Lady
Movie • 1940
Willie, Lord Lebanon
The Barefoot Contessa
Movie • 1954
Alberto Bravano
A Matter of Life and Death
Movie • 1946
Conductor 71
The Girl on a Motorcycle
Movie • 1968
Rebecca’s Father
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Movie • 1952
Inspector Lucas
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Movie • 1978
King George V
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Movie • 1951
Reggie Demarest
A Walk in the Sea
Movie • 1966
Reverend Harrup
Circle of Danger
Movie • 1951
Sholto Lewis
Odette
Movie • 1950
Colonel Henri
The Red Shoes
Movie • 1948
Julian Craster
The Life of Adolf Hitler
Movie • 1961
Narrator
Ill Met by Moonlight
Movie • 1957
Major General Kreipe
The Spy in Black
Movie • 1939
Lieutenant Felix Schuster
Quentin Durward
Movie • 1955
Count Philip De Creville
I Was Monty's Double
Movie • 1958
Karl Nielson
Highly Dangerous
Movie • 1950
Commandant Anton Razinski
Rough Shoot
Movie • 1953
Hiart
Take My Life
Movie • 1947
Sidney Fleming
The Inspector
Movie • 1962
Thorens
The Crooked Road
Movie • 1965
Harlequin
Beyond the Curtain
Movie • 1960
Hans Körtner
The Treasure of San Teresa
Movie • 1959
Rudi Siebert
Whirlpool
Movie • 1959
Georg
First Love
Movie • 1970
Dr. Lushin
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Movie • 1948
Vincent Perrin
Break in the Circle
Movie • 1955
Baron Keller
Pastor Hall
Movie • 1940
Fritz Gerte
So Little Time
Movie • 1952
Colonel Günther von Hohensee
Flying Fifty-Five
Movie • 1939
Charles Barrington
The Moonraker
Movie • 1958
Colonel John Beaumont
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Movie • 1978
Raimondo Casarès
Zeppelin
Movie • 1971
Professor Christian Altschul
The Devil's Agent
Movie • 1962
General Greenhahn
The Unstoppable Man
Movie • 1961
Inspector Hazelrigg
The Amateur Gentleman
Movie • 1936
Bit Part (uncredited)
Son of Robin Hood
Movie • 1958
Chester
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Movie • 1938
Greening
Rx Murder
Movie • 1958
Doctor Henry Dysert
The Angry Hills
Movie • 1959
Colonel Elrick Oberg
Kill or Be Killed
Movie • 1942
German Sniper (voice)
The Night Invader
Movie • 1943
Oberleutenant
Strike It Rich
Movie • 1990
Blixon
The Big Blockade
Movie • 1942
German Propaganda Officer
Up from the Beach
Movie • 1965
German Commandant
The Truth About Women
Movie • 1957
Otto Kerstein
The Magic Box
Movie • 1952
House Agent
Desert Mice
Movie • 1959
German Major
Cymbeline
Movie • 1983
Sicilius Leonatus
Der Monat der fallenden Blätter
Movie • 1968
Erster Geheimagent
The Devil's Daffodil
Movie • 1961
Oliver Milburgh
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Movie • 1967
Theodore Maxtible
Night Boat to Dublin
Movie • 1946
Frederick Jannings
Rembrandt
Movie • 1936
Baron Leivens (uncredited)
Asmodée
Movie • 1959
Blaise Lebel
The Secret Thread
Movie • 1962
Arnold Reed
Subterfuge
Movie • 1968
Shevik
The 25th Hour
Movie • 1967
Colonel Muller
An Ideal Husband
Movie • 1958
Lord Goring
The Bear
Movie • 1938
Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a landowner
Consider Your Verdict
Movie • 1938
The Novelist
Box for One
Movie • 1949
The Caller
The Mirror and Markheim
Movie • 1954
Narrator
The Magic Carpet
Movie • 1956
Gaslicht
Movie • 1956
Jack Manningham
Many Mansions
Movie • 1957
Lester Hockley
The Late Nancy Irving
Movie • 1984
Angus Aragon
Tonight in Britain
Movie • 1954
Self
A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
Movie • 1961
Laye-Parker
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Movie • 1961
Laye-Parker
Too Many Cooks
Movie • 1966
Wattari
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Theodore Maxtible
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Dr John Landy
The Expert
TV • 1968
Dr John Hardy
Edward and Mrs Simpson
TV • 1978
King George V
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents
TV • 1953
Nicol Pascal
The Year of the French
TV • 1982
Lord Glenthorne
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Crystof Wolters
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Thirteen Against Fate
TV • 1966
Monsieur Hire
Out of the Unknown
TV • 1965
Wattari
House of Caradus
TV • 1979
Magnus Bronsky
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Hjalmar Ekdal
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Robert Clive
The Revenue Men
TV • 1967
Kersten
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Tommy Savidge
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
General Harras
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Chorus
Levkas Man
TV • 1981
Dr. Pieter Gerrard
Fall of Eagles
TV • 1974
Von Hindenburg
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
TV • 1968
Mme Sacramento
First Night
TV • 1963
Grieve Wishart
International Detective
TV • 1959
Ferdie Steibel
Sunday-Night Play
TV • 1960
Alexei Turbin
Sunday-Night Play
TV • 1960
Laye-Parker
Sunday-Night Play
TV • 1960
John Lock
Sunday-Night Play
TV • 1960
Harras, General of the Luftwaffe
Man in a Suitcase
TV • 1967
Henri Thibaud
The Third Man
TV • 1959
Colonel Dimonella
Lilli Palmer Theatre
TV • 1955
Major Edward Carter
Lilli Palmer Theatre
TV • 1955
Reinhardt
24-Hour Call
TV • 1963
Sam Bullivant
ITV Play of the Week
TV • 1955
John Hagerman
ITV Play of the Week
TV • 1955
Purcell
Love Story
TV • 1963
Robert Langley
Drama 61-67
TV • 1961
Mervyn
Drama 61-67
TV • 1961
Captain
ITV Play of the Week
TV • 1955
Charles Norbury
ITV Play of the Week
TV • 1955
Robert Cosgrove
ITV Play of the Week
TV • 1955
Lewis Eliot
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
TV • 1984
Angus Aragon
The Great War
TV • 1964
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
TV • 1955
Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
Maigret
TV • 1960
Peter the Lett
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV • 1965
Mr Ponge
Hammer House of Horror
TV • 1980
Heinz
The Old Men at the Zoo
TV • 1983
Dr Emile Englander
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Reverend Harrup
Holocaust
TV • 1978
Heinrich Palitz
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self - Interviewee
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Sir Hubert
The Old Men at the Zoo
TV • 1983
Emile Englander
The Mask of Janus
TV • 1965
Dr. Kapaka
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
TV • 1967
Lord Linchmere
Wilde Alliance
TV • 1978
Rex