Marius Goring
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: May 23, 1912
Place of Birth: Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Blixon
as Angus Aragon
as Angus Aragon
as Sicilius Leonatus
as Dr. Pieter Gerrard
as Heinz
as Dr John Landy
as Magnus Bronsky
as King George V
as King George V
as Raimondo Casarès
as Heinrich Palitz
as Rex
as Von Hindenburg
as Professor Christian Altschul
as Dr. Lushin
as Shevik
as Dr John Hardy
as Rebecca’s Father
as Mme Sacramento
as Erster Geheimagent
as Self - Interviewee
as Henri Thibaud
as Theodore Maxtible
as Colonel Muller
as Kersten
as Lord Linchmere
as Monsieur Hire
as Mr Ponge
as Wattari
as German Commandant
as Harlequin
as Reverend Harrup
as Sir Hubert
as Theodore Maxtible
as General Greenhahn
as Thorens
as Oliver Milburgh
as Inspector Hazelrigg
as Von Storch
as Peter the Lett
as Hans Körtner
as Colonel Dimonella
as Colonel Elrick Oberg
as Rudi Siebert
as Georg
as German Major
as Chester
as Karl Nielson
as Colonel John Beaumont
as Doctor Henry Dysert
as Otto Kerstein
as Major General Kreipe
as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
as John Hagerman
as Purcell
as Charles Norbury
as Lewis Eliot
as Robert Cosgrove
as Reinhardt
as Major Edward Carter
as Count Philip De Creville
as Baron Keller
as Alberto Bravano
as Narrator
as Hiart
as Nicol Pascal
as Inspector Lucas
as Colonel Günther von Hohensee
as Kurt Willbrand
as House Agent
as Sholto Lewis
as Reggie Demarest
as Commandant Anton Razinski
as Colonel Henri
as Tommy Savidge
as Chorus
as Hjalmar Ekdal
as General Harras
as Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
as Crystof Wolters
as Robert Clive
as Richard Brinsley Sheridan
as Vincent Perrin
as Julian Craster
as Sidney Fleming
as Conductor 71
as Frederick Jannings
as German Propaganda Officer
as German Sniper (voice)
as Willie, Lord Lebanon
as Fritz Gerte
as Lieutenant Felix Schuster
as Charles Barrington
as Greening
as Baron Leivens (uncredited)
as Bit Part (uncredited)