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