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.

The Red Shoes

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Doctor Who

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A Matter of Life and Death

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The Barefoot Contessa

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Exodus

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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

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Hammer House of Horror

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Holocaust

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The Spy in Black

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The Girl on a Motorcycle

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The 25th Hour

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Tales of the Unexpected

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Ill Met by Moonlight

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Rembrandt

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Zeppelin

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The Devil's Daffodil

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Odette

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I Was Monty's Double

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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

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The Magic Box

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Circle of Danger

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The Angry Hills

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The Case of the Frightened Lady

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Quentin Durward

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Highly Dangerous

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The Great War

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Maigret

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The Inspector

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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

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Pastor Hall

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The Moonraker

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Fall of Eagles

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Man in a Suitcase

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Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

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Omnibus

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So Little Time

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The Truth About Women

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Night Boat to Dublin

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Nights on the Road

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Take My Life

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Whirlpool

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First Love

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Out of the Unknown

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The Third Man

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Life of Adolf Hitler

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Rough Shoot

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The Treasure of San Teresa

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Cymbeline

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Edward and Mrs Simpson

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The BBC Television Shakespeare

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ITV Play of the Week

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The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

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Thirty-Minute Theatre

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Flying Fifty-Five

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Son of Robin Hood

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The Big Blockade

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Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

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The Wednesday Play

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Beyond the Curtain

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The Crooked Road

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The Devil's Agent

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Subterfuge

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Little Girl in Blue Velvet

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Rx Murder

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Up from the Beach

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An Ideal Husband

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The Expert

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Wilde Alliance

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Sunday Night Theatre

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House of Caradus

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Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

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Edward & Mrs. Simpson

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The Amateur Gentleman

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Kill or be Killed

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Strike It Rich

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The Mask of Janus

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International Detective

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Break in the Circle

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The Unstoppable Man

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Dead Men Tell No Tales

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The Night Invader

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Der Monat der fallenden Blätter

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Asmodée

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The Secret Thread

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The Bear

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Box for One

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The Mirror and Markheim

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Consider Your Verdict

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The Magic Carpet

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Gaslicht

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Many Mansions

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Tonight in Britain

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The Year of the French

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Levkas Man

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First Night

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Sunday-Night Play

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Lilli Palmer Theatre

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24-Hour Call

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Love Story

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