Marius Goring

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.

Acting

1990

1984

1983

The Old Men at the Zoo

Dr Emile Englander

1983

The Old Men at the Zoo

Emile Englander

1983

Cymbeline

Sicilius Leonatus

1982

The Year of the French

Lord Glenthorne

1980

1979

1979

House of Caradus

Magnus Bronsky

1978

1978

1978

Holocaust

Heinrich Palitz

1978

1971

Zeppelin

Professor Christian Altschul

1970

First Love

Dr. Lushin

1968

The Expert

Dr John Hardy

1968

The Girl on a Motorcycle

Rebecca’s Father

1968

1967

Omnibus

Self - Interviewee

1967

Man in a Suitcase

Henri Thibaud

1967

The 25th Hour

Colonel Muller

1967

1967

1965

1965

1965

1965

1964

1964

The Wednesday Play

Reverend Harrup

1964

1963

Doctor Who

Theodore Maxtible

1963

First Night

Grieve Wishart

1963

Love Story

Robert Langley

1963

24-Hour Call

Sam Bullivant

1962

The Devil's Agent

General Greenhahn

1962

1961

1961

The Devil's Daffodil

Oliver Milburgh

1961

1961

The Unstoppable Man

Inspector Hazelrigg

1961

1961

1961

1960

Exodus

Von Storch

1960

Maigret

Peter the Lett

1960

Sunday-Night Play

Harras, General of the Luftwaffe

1960

1960

1960

Sunday-Night Play

Alexei Turbin

1960

Beyond the Curtain

Hans Körtner

1959

The Third Man

Colonel Dimonella

1959

The Angry Hills

Colonel Elrick Oberg

1959

1959

Desert Mice

German Major

1958

1958

1958

The Moonraker

Colonel John Beaumont

1957

1957

Ill Met by Moonlight

Major General Kreipe

1955

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel

1955

1955

ITV Play of the Week

Robert Cosgrove

1955

1955

1955

ITV Play of the Week

Charles Norbury

1955

1955

Lilli Palmer Theatre

Major Edward Carter

1955

Quentin Durward

Count Philip De Creville

1954

The Barefoot Contessa

Alberto Bravano

1953

1953

1952

1952

Nights on the Road

Kurt Willbrand

1952

The Magic Box

House Agent

1951

Circle of Danger

Sholto Lewis

1951

1950

Highly Dangerous

Commandant Anton Razinski

1950

Odette

Colonel Henri

1950

1950

Sunday Night Theatre

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer

1950

Sunday Night Theatre

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1950

1950

1950

1950

Sunday Night Theatre

Crystof Wolters

1950

Sunday Night Theatre

General Harras

1948

The Red Shoes

Julian Craster

1946

1939

The Spy in Black

Lieutenant Felix Schuster

1938

Production

Writing

Infos

Full Name
Marius Goring
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
5/23/1912
Date of Death
9/30/1998
Website
https://www.mariusgoring.com
Also Known As

Marius Re Goring

Мариус Горинг