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