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.

Filmography

• 1990Strike It Rich — Blixon
• Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense — Angus Aragon
• 1984The Late Nancy Irving — Angus Aragon
• 1983Cymbeline — Sicilius Leonatus
• The Old Men at the Zoo — Dr Emile Englander
• The Year of the French — Lord Glenthorne
• Levkas Man — Dr. Pieter Gerrard
• Hammer House of Horror — Heinz
• House of Caradus — Magnus Bronsky
• Tales of the Unexpected — Dr John Landy
• 1978Edward & Mrs. Simpson — King George V
• Edward and Mrs Simpson — King George V
• Holocaust — Heinrich Palitz
• 1978Little Girl in Blue Velvet — Raimondo Casarès
• Wilde Alliance — Rex
• Fall of Eagles — Von Hindenburg
• 1971Zeppelin — Professor Christian Altschul
• 1970First Love — Dr. Lushin
• 1968Der Monat der fallenden Blätter — Erster Geheimagent
• Les Dossiers de l'Agence O — Mme Sacramento
• 1968Subterfuge — Shevik
• The Expert — Dr John Hardy
• 1968The Girl on a Motorcycle — Rebecca’s Father
• 1967Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks — Theodore Maxtible
• Man in a Suitcase — Henri Thibaud
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — Lord Linchmere
• 1967Sleeping Dog — Sir Hubert
• 1967The 25th Hour — Colonel Muller
• The Revenue Men — Kersten
• 1966A Walk in the Sea — Reverend Harrup
• Thirteen Against Fate — Monsieur Hire
• 1966Too Many Cooks — Wattari
• Out of the Unknown — Wattari
• 1965The Crooked Road — Harlequin
• The Mask of Janus — Dr. Kapaka
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Mr Ponge, The Interrogator
• 1965Up from the Beach — German Commandant
• The Great War — Various (voice)
• The Wednesday Play — Reverend Harrup, Sir Hubert
• 24-Hour Call — Sam Bullivant
• Doctor Who — Theodore Maxtible
• First Night — Grieve Wishart
• Love Story — Robert Langley
• 1962The Devil's Agent — General Greenhahn
• 1962The Inspector — Thorens
• 1962The Secret Thread — Arnold Reed
• 1961A Call on Kuprin: Part 1 — Laye-Parker
• 1961A Call on Kuprin: Part 2 — Laye-Parker
• Drama 61-67 — Mervyn, Captain
• 1961The Devil's Daffodil — Oliver Milburgh
• 1961The Life of Adolf Hitler — Narrator
• 1961The Unstoppable Man — Inspector Hazelrigg
• 1960Beyond the Curtain — Hans Körtner
• 1960Exodus — Von Storch
• Maigret — Peter the Lett
• Sunday-Night Play — Alexei Turbin, Laye-Parker, John Lock, Harras, General of the Luftwaffe
• 1959Asmodée — Blaise Lebel
• 1959Desert Mice — German Major
• International Detective — Ferdie Steibel
• 1959The Angry Hills — Colonel Elrick Oberg
• The Third Man — Colonel Dimonella
• 1959The Treasure of San Teresa — Rudi Siebert
• 1959Whirlpool — Georg
• 1958An Ideal Husband — Lord Goring
• 1958I Was Monty's Double — Karl Nielson
• 1958Rx Murder — Doctor Henry Dysert
• 1958The Moonraker — Colonel John Beaumont
• 1958The Son of Robin Hood — Chester
• 1957Ill Met by Moonlight — Major General Kreipe
• 1957Many Mansions — Lester Hockley
• 1957The Truth About Women — Otto Kerstein
• 1956Gaslicht — Jack Manningham
• 1956The Magic Carpet
• 1955Break in the Circle — Baron Keller
• ITV Play of the Week — John Hagerman, Purcell, Charles Norbury, Robert Cosgrove, Lewis Eliot
• Lilli Palmer Theatre — Major Edward Carter, Reinhardt
• 1955Quentin Durward — Count Philip De Creville
• The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel — Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel, Producer, Associate Producer, Screenplay
• 1954The Barefoot Contessa — Alberto Bravano
• 1954The Mirror and Markheim — Narrator
• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents — Nicol Pascal
• 1953Rough Shoot — Hiart
• You Are There — Oliver Cromwell
• 1952Nights on the Road — Kurt Willbrand
• 1952So Little Time — Colonel Günther von Hohensee
• 1952The Magic Box — House Agent
• 1952The Man Who Watched Trains Go By — Inspector Lucas
• 1951Circle of Danger — Sholto Lewis
• 1951Pandora and the Flying Dutchman — Reggie Demarest
• 1950Highly Dangerous — Commandant Anton Razinski
• 1950Odette — Colonel Henri
• Sunday Night Theatre — Crystof Wolters, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Hjalmar Ekdal, Robert Clive, Tommy Savidge, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, General Harras, Chorus
• 1949Box for One — The Caller
• 1948Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill — Vincent Perrin
• 1948The Red Shoes — Julian Craster
• 1947Take My Life — Sidney Fleming
• 1946A Matter of Life and Death — Conductor 71
• 1946Night Boat to Dublin — Frederick Jannings
• 1943The Night Invader — Oberleutenant
• 1942Kill or Be Killed — German Sniper (voice)
• 1942The Big Blockade — German Propaganda Officer
• 1940Pastor Hall — Fritz Gerte
• 1940The Case of the Frightened Lady — Willie, Lord Lebanon
• 1939Flying Fifty-Five — Charles Barrington
• 1939The Spy in Black — Lieutenant Felix Schuster
• 1938Consider Your Verdict — The Novelist
• 1938Dead Men Tell No Tales — Greening
• 1938The Bear — Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a landowner
• 1936Rembrandt — Baron Leivens (uncredited)
• 1936The Amateur Gentleman — Bit Part (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Omnibus — Self - Interviewee
• 1954Tonight in Britain — Self