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Marius Goring

Marius Goring

Actor · 1912 – 1998 · Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK

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.

Movies23

  • Movie7.7
  • Movie8.0

    The Red Shoes

    1948 · 772 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Exodus

    1960 · 239 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Barefoot Contessa

    1954 · 285 votes

  • Movie5.7

    The Girl on a Motorcycle

    1968 · 68 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Erste Liebe

    First Love

    1970 · 8 votes

  • Movie7.6

    La Vingt-cinquième Heure

    The 25th Hour

    1967 · 59 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen

    The Devil's Daffodil

    1961 · 31 votes

  • Movie7.9

    Nachts auf den Straßen

    Nights on the Road

    1952 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.3

    The Son of Robin Hood

    1958 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.7

    La Petite Fille en velours bleu

    Little Girl in Blue Velvet

    1978 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie6.9

    I Was Monty's Double

    1958 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Ill Met by Moonlight

    1957 · 46 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie5.8

    Quentin Durward

    1955 · 18 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Devil's Agent

    1962 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Moonraker

    1958 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Magic Box

    1952 · 25 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Subterfuge

    1968 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Odette

    1950 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.4

    The Spy in Black

    1939 · 66 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Truth About Women

    1957 · 8 votes

Series23

  • TV7.9

    Doctor Who

    1963 · 722 votes

  • TV6.7

    Tales of the Unexpected

    1979 · 54 votes

  • TV7.2

    Omnibus

    1967 · 9 votes

  • TV5.2

    The Wednesday Play

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV4.3

    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV3.5

    Sunday Night Theatre

    1950 · 2 votes

  • TV7.1

    Maigret

    1960 · 15 votes

  • TV7.1

    Out of the Unknown

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV4.0

    ITV Play of the Week

    1955 · 5 votes

  • TV9.0

    The Expert

    1968 · 2 votes

  • TV6.5
  • TV6.0

    You Are There

    1953 · 4 votes

  • TV
  • TV7.2

    The Third Man

    1959 · 11 votes

  • TV7.2

    Man in a Suitcase

    1967 · 10 votes

  • TV7.1

    Hammer House of Horror

    1980 · 73 votes

  • TV7.0

    Fall of Eagles

    1974 · 10 votes

  • TV8.0
  • TV7.5
  • TV7.3

    Holocaust

    1978 · 76 votes

  • TV7.0

    Wilde Alliance

    1978 · 3 votes

  • TV6.8

    Edward and Mrs Simpson

    1978 · 6 votes

  • TV8.0