Acting
125
Man
23 May 1912
30 Sept 1998 (86)
Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1990 | Strike It Rich | Blixon |
1984 | Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense | Angus Aragon |
1984 | The Late Nancy Irving | Angus Aragon |
1983 | The Old Men at the Zoo | Dr Emile Englander |
1982 | Cymbeline | Sicilius Leonatus |
1982 | The Year of the French | Lord Glenthorne |
1981 | Levkas Man | Dr. Pieter Gerrard |
1980 | Hammer House of Horror | Heinz |
1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Dr John Landy |
1979 | House of Caradus | Magnus Bronsky |
1978 | Holocaust | Heinrich Palitz |
1978 | Edward and Mrs Simpson | King George V |
1978 | BBC Television Shakespeare | |
1978 | Little Girl in Blue Velvet | Raimondo Casarès |
1978 | Wilde Alliance | Rex |
1978 | Edward & Mrs. Simpson | King George V |
1974 | Fall of Eagles | Von Hindenburg |
1971 | Zeppelin | Professor Christian Altschul |
1970 | First Love | Dr. Lushin |
1968 | The Girl on a Motorcycle | Rebecca’s Father |
1968 | Subterfuge | Shevik |
1968 | Les Dossiers de l'Agence O | Mme Sacramento |
1968 | The Expert | Dr John Hardy |
1968 | Der Monat der fallenden Blätter | Erster Geheimagent |
1967 | The 25th Hour | Colonel Muller |
1967 | Man in a Suitcase | Henri Thibaud |
1967 | Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks | Theodore Maxtible |
1967 | The Revenue Men | Kersten |
1966 | Thirteen Against Fate | Monsieur Hire |
1966 | A Walk in the Sea | Reverend Harrup |
1965 | Out of the Unknown | Wattari |
1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | The Interrogator |
1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Mr Ponge |
1965 | The Crooked Road | Harlequin |
1965 | Up from the Beach | German Commandant |
1965 | The Mask of Janus | Dr Kapaka |
1964 | The Great War | |
1964 | The Wednesday Play | Reverend Harrup |
1963 | Doctor Who | Theodore Maxtible |
1963 | First Night | Grieve Wishart |
1963 | 24-Hour Call | Sam Bullivant |
1963 | Love Story | Robert Langley |
1962 | The Inspector | Thorens |
1962 | The Devil's Agent | General Greenhahn |
1962 | The Secret Thread | Arnold Reed |
1961 | The Devil's Daffodil | Oliver Milburgh |
1961 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Narrator |
1961 | The Unstoppable Man | Inspector Hazelrigg |
1961 | Drama 61-67 | Mervyn |
1961 | Drama 61-67 | Captain |
1960 | Exodus | Von Storch |
1960 | Maigret | Peter the Lett |
1960 | Beyond the Curtain | Hans Körtner |
1960 | Sunday-Night Play | Laye-Parker |
1960 | Sunday-Night Play | Alexei Turbin |
1960 | Sunday-Night Play | Harras, General of the Luftwaffe |
1960 | Sunday-Night Play | John Lock |
1959 | The Angry Hills | Colonel Elrick Oberg |
1959 | Whirlpool | Georg |
1959 | The Treasure of San Teresa | Rudi Siebert |
1959 | Desert Mice | German Major |
1959 | The Third Man | Colonel Dimonella |
1959 | Asmodée | Blaise Lebel |
1959 | International Detective | Ferdie Steibel |
1958 | I Was Monty's Double | Karl Nielson |
1958 | The Moonraker | Colonel John Beaumont |
1958 | Son of Robin Hood | Chester |
1958 | Rx Murder | Doctor Henry Dysert |
1958 | An Ideal Husband | Lord Goring |
1957 | Ill Met by Moonlight | Major General Kreipe |
1957 | The Truth About Women | Otto Kerstein |
1957 | Many Mansions | Lester Hockley |
1956 | Gaslicht | Jack Manningham |
1956 | The Magic Carpet | |
1955 | Quentin Durward | Count Philip De Creville |
1955 | ITV Play of the Week | Purcell |
1955 | ITV Play of the Week | Charles Norbury |
1955 | ITV Play of the Week | John Hagerman |
1955 | ITV Play of the Week | Robert Cosgrove |
1955 | ITV Play of the Week | Lewis Eliot |
1955 | The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel | Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel |
1955 | Break in the Circle | Baron Keller |
1955 | Lilli Palmer Theatre | Reinhardt |
1955 | Lilli Palmer Theatre | Major Edward Carter |
1954 | The Barefoot Contessa | Alberto Bravano |
1954 | The Mirror and Markheim | Narrator |
1953 | Rough Shoot | Hiart |
1953 | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents | Nicol Pascal |
1952 | The Man Who Watched Trains Go By | Inspector Lucas |
1952 | The Magic Box | House Agent |
1952 | Nights on the Road | Kurt Willbrand |
1952 | So Little Time | Colonel Günther von Hohensee |
1951 | Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | Reggie Demarest |
1951 | Circle of Danger | Sholto Lewis |
1950 | Odette | Colonel Henri |
1950 | Highly Dangerous | Commandant Anton Razinski |
1950 | Sunday Night Theatre | Tommy Savidge |
1950 | Sunday Night Theatre | Chorus |
1950 | Sunday Night Theatre | General Harras |
1950 | Sunday Night Theatre | Hjalmar Ekdal |
1950 | Sunday Night Theatre | Crystof Wolters |
1950 | Sunday Night Theatre | Robert Clive |
1950 | Sunday Night Theatre | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
1950 | Sunday Night Theatre | Archbishop Thomas Cranmer |
1949 | Box for One | The Caller |
1948 | The Red Shoes | Julian Craster |
1948 | Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill | Vincent Perrin |
1947 | Take My Life | Sidney Fleming |
1946 | A Matter of Life and Death | Conductor 71 |
1946 | Night Boat to Dublin | Frederick Jannings |
1943 | The Night Invader | Oberleutenant |
1942 | The Big Blockade | German Propaganda Officer |
1942 | Kill or be Killed | German Sniper (voice) |
1940 | The Case of the Frightened Lady | Willie, Lord Lebanon |
1940 | Pastor Hall | Fritz Gerte |
1939 | The Spy in Black | Lieutenant Felix Schuster |
1939 | Flying Fifty-Five | Charles Barrington |
1938 | Dead Men Tell No Tales | Greening |
1938 | The Bear | Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a landowner |
1938 | Consider Your Verdict | The Novelist |
1936 | Rembrandt | Baron Leivens (uncredited) |
1936 | The Amateur Gentleman | Bit Part (uncredited) |
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1955 | The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel | Screenplay |
1955 | The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel | Producer |
1955 | The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel | Associate Producer |