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