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.
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Movies (74)
Strike It Rich
1990 · Blixon
The Late Nancy Irving
1984 · Angus Aragon
Cymbeline
1983 · 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
Subterfuge
1968 · Shevik
The Girl on a Motorcycle
1968 · Rebecca’s Father
Der Monat der fallenden Blätter
1968 · Erster Geheimagent
Sleeping Dog
1967 · Sir Hubert
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
1967 · Theodore Maxtible
The 25th Hour
1967 · Colonel Muller
Too Many Cooks
1966 · Wattari
A Walk in the Sea
1966 · Reverend Harrup
Up from the Beach
1965 · German Commandant
The Crooked Road
1965 · Harlequin
The Devil's Agent
1962 · General Greenhahn
The Inspector
1962 · Thorens
The Secret Thread
1962 · Arnold Reed
The Life of Adolf Hitler
1961 · Narrator
The Devil's Daffodil
1961 · Oliver Milburgh
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
1961 · Laye-Parker
The Unstoppable Man
1961 · Inspector Hazelrigg
A Call on Kuprin: Part 1
1961 · Laye-Parker
Exodus
1960 · Von Storch
Beyond the Curtain
1960 · Hans Körtner
The Angry Hills
1959 · Colonel Elrick Oberg
The Treasure of San Teresa
1959 · Rudi Siebert
Asmodée
1959 · Blaise Lebel
Whirlpool
1959 · Georg
Desert Mice
1959 · German Major
The Son of Robin Hood
1958 · Chester
I Was Monty's Double
1958 · Karl Nielson
The Moonraker
1958 · Colonel John Beaumont
An Ideal Husband
1958 · Lord Goring
Rx Murder
1958 · Doctor Henry Dysert
The Truth About Women
1957 · Otto Kerstein
Many Mansions
1957 · Lester Hockley
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957 · Major General Kreipe
Gaslicht
1956 · Jack Manningham
The Magic Carpet
1956
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
Tonight in Britain
1954 · Self
Rough Shoot
1953 · Hiart
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
1952 · Inspector Lucas
So Little Time
1952 · Colonel Günther von Hohensee
Nights on the Road
1952 · Kurt Willbrand
The Magic Box
1952 · House Agent
Circle of Danger
1951 · Sholto Lewis
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951 · Reggie Demarest
Highly Dangerous
1950 · Commandant Anton Razinski
Odette
1950 · Colonel Henri
Box for One
1949 · The Caller
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948 · Vincent Perrin
The Red Shoes
1948 · Julian Craster
Take My Life
1947 · Sidney Fleming
A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · Conductor 71
Night Boat to Dublin
1946 · Frederick Jannings
The Night Invader
1943 · Oberleutenant
The Big Blockade
1942 · German Propaganda Officer
Kill or Be Killed
1942 · German Sniper (voice)
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
Consider Your Verdict
1938 · The Novelist
The Bear
1938 · Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a landowner
Dead Men Tell No Tales
1938 · Greening
Rembrandt
1936 · Baron Leivens (uncredited)
The Amateur Gentleman
1936 · Bit Part (uncredited)
TV shows (38)
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
1984 · Angus Aragon
The Old Men at the Zoo
1983 · Dr Emile Englander, Emile Englander
The Year of the French
1982 · Lord Glenthorne
Levkas Man
1981 · Dr. Pieter Gerrard
Hammer House of Horror
1980 · Heinz
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Dr John Landy
House of Caradus
1979 · Magnus Bronsky
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978 · King George V
Holocaust
1978 · Heinrich Palitz
Wilde Alliance
1978 · Rex
Fall of Eagles
1974 · Von Hindenburg
The Expert
1968 · Dr John Hardy
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
1968 · Mme Sacramento
Omnibus
1967 · Self - Interviewee
Man in a Suitcase
1967 · Henri Thibaud
The Revenue Men
1967 · Kersten
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1967 · Lord Linchmere
Thirteen Against Fate
1966 · Monsieur Hire
The Mask of Janus
1965 · Dr. Kapaka
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Mr Ponge, The Interrogator
Out of the Unknown
1965 · Wattari
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Reverend Harrup, Sir Hubert
The Great War
1964 · Various (voice)
Doctor Who
1963 · Theodore Maxtible
First Night
1963 · Grieve Wishart
Love Story
1963 · Robert Langley
24-Hour Call
1963 · Sam Bullivant
Drama 61-67
1961 · Mervyn, Captain
Maigret
1960 · Peter the Lett
Sunday-Night Play
1960 · Alexei Turbin, Laye-Parker, John Lock, Harras, General of the Luftwaffe
International Detective
1959 · Ferdie Steibel
The Third Man
1959 · Colonel Dimonella
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955 · Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel, Producer, Associate Producer, Screenplay
ITV Play of the Week
1955 · John Hagerman, Purcell, Charles Norbury, Robert Cosgrove, Lewis Eliot
Lilli Palmer Theatre
1955 · Major Edward Carter, Reinhardt
You Are There
1953 · Oliver Cromwell
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents
1953 · Nicol Pascal
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · Crystof Wolters, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Hjalmar Ekdal, Robert Clive, Tommy Savidge, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, General Harras, Chorus