Marius Goring

Born: 1912-05-23

Marius Re Goring CBE FRSL (23 May 1912 – 30 September 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.


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The Red Shoes

as Julian Craster
Released: 1948-09-06

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance...

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The Barefoot Contessa

as Alberto Bravano
Released: 1954-09-29

Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy...

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Exodus

as Von Storch
Released: 1960-12-15

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to...

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A Matter of Life and Death

as Conductor 71
Released: 1946-12-15

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute,...

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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

as Reggie Demarest
Released: 1951-04-13

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for....

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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

as Inspector Lucas
Released: 1952-12-01

A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life...

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The Spy in Black

as Lieutenant Felix Schuster
Released: 1939-08-03

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

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The 25th Hour

as Colonel Muller
Released: 1967-04-26

A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The...

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Circle of Danger

as Sholto Lewis
Released: 1951-04-17

An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that...

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The Girl on a Motorcycle

as Rebecca’s Father
Released: 1968-06-21

Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of...

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The Devil's Daffodil

as Oliver Milburgh
Released: 1961-07-20

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The...

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Quentin Durward

as Count Philip De Creville
Released: 1955-09-09

During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his...

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Take My Life

as Sidney Fleming
Released: 1947-05-30

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

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First Love

as Dr. Lushin
Released: 1970-10-07

The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.

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Little Girl in Blue Velvet

as Raimondo Casarès
Released: 1978-08-23

An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.

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Cymbeline

as Sicilius Leonatus
Released: 1982-12-20

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy)...

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The Angry Hills

as Colonel Elrick Oberg
Released: 1959-07-29

In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael...

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Odette

as Colonel Henri
Released: 1950-10-02

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette...

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Ill Met by Moonlight

as Major General Kreipe
Released: 1957-01-31

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and...

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The Truth About Women

as Otto Kerstein
Released: 1957-10-01

Baffled and at a loss to understand the mentality of Diana, his wife, Anthony makes a frantic...

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Pastor Hall

as Fritz Gerte
Released: 1940-05-28

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon...

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The Inspector

as Thorens
Released: 1962-05-24

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British...

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Zeppelin

as Professor Christian Altschul
Released: 1971-04-08

The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable...

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Rembrandt

as Baron Leivens (uncredited)
Released: 1936-11-06

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid...

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The Moonraker

as Colonel John Beaumont
Released: 1958-08-02

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's...

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The Magic Box

as House Agent
Released: 1952-01-01

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As...

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Highly Dangerous

as Commandant Anton Razinski
Released: 1950-12-06

A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.

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Strike It Rich

as Blixon
Released: 1990-01-26

A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.

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The Devil's Agent

as General Greenhahn
Released: 1962-09-01

German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence...

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Son of Robin Hood

as Chester
Released: 1958-11-01

Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the...

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Break in the Circle

as Baron Keller
Released: 1955-01-01

An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West.

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I Was Monty's Double

as Karl Nielson
Released: 1958-10-21

The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General...

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Edward & Mrs. Simpson

as King George V
Released: 1978-11-06

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...

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The Crooked Road

as Harlequin
Released: 1965-02-03

An investigative reporter travels to a small European country with the hope of exposing its...

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Rx Murder

as Doctor Henry Dysert
Released: 1958-02-18

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes...

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Beyond the Curtain

as Hans Körtner
Released: 1960-04-01

A British flight officer plans to rescue an airline stewardess who is trapped in East Germany.

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Nights on the Road

as Kurt Willbrand
Released: 1952-01-14

An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd.

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Desert Mice

as German Major
Released: 1959-01-05

A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service...

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Rough Shoot

as Hiart
Released: 1953-03-30

An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful...

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Night Boat to Dublin

as Frederick Jannings
Released: 1946-01-08

British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.

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Whirlpool

as Georg
Released: 1959-03-01

The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.

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So Little Time

as Colonel Günther von Hohensee
Released: 1952-04-18

During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.

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The Unstoppable Man

as Inspector Hazelrigg
Released: 1961-06-21

Mitchell is a rich American businessman whose son is kidnapped in England. Naturally, there's a...

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The Big Blockade

as German Propaganda Officer
Released: 1942-01-19

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the...

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Der Monat der fallenden Blätter

as Erster Geheimagent
Released: 1968-03-10

When British philosopher Harold Hilliard took off for Warsaw to lecture on the Dysteleological...

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Life of Adolf Hitler

as Narrator
Released: 1961-09-01

Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler's political life until his fall...

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The Case of the Frightened Lady

as Willie, Lord Lebanon
Released: 1940-09-28

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

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Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

as Theodore Maxtible
Released: 1967-07-01

The Daleks draft the Second Doctor into distilling the Human Factor. Once implanted, it will...

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The Treasure of San Teresa

as Rudi Siebert
Released: 1959-07-21

After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a...

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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

as Vincent Perrin
Released: 1948-09-27

A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From...

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Dead Men Tell No Tales

as Greening
Released: 1938-02-01

The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is...

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Up from the Beach

as German Commandant
Released: 1965-05-25

After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from...

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The Amateur Gentleman

as Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: 1936-04-26

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of...

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Subterfuge

as Shevik
Released: 1968-12-12

A young wife is becoming very distraught over the fact that her husband, a secret service "spy"...

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Flying Fifty-Five

as Charles Barrington
Released: 1939-05-01

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just...

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A Walk in the Sea

as Reverend Harrup
Released: 1966-03-09

A lonely spinster has her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a...

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Kill or be Killed

as German Sniper (voice)
Released: 1942-01-01

A fictional enactment of the deadly contest between a British soldier and a German sniper hiding...

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Doctor Who

as Theodore Maxtible
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Dr John Landy
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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BBC Television Shakespeare

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-12-03

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...

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Thirty-Minute Theatre

as Mr Ponge
First aired: 1965-10-07

Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television...

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Thirty-Minute Theatre

as The Interrogator
First aired: 1965-10-07

Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television...

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The Third Man

as Colonel Dimonella
First aired: 1959-10-02

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Man in a Suitcase

as Henri Thibaud
First aired: 1967-09-27

Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name,...

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Fall of Eagles

as Von Hindenburg
First aired: 1974-03-15

"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series...

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Hammer House of Horror

as Heinz
First aired: 1980-09-13

Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror....

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Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

as Angus Aragon
First aired: 1984-09-05

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer...

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The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
First aired: 1955-09-28

The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero,...

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Edward and Mrs Simpson

as King George V
First aired: 1978-11-08

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite,...

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ITV Play of the Week

as John Hagerman
First aired: 1955-09-27

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to...

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ITV Play of the Week

as Purcell
First aired: 1955-09-27

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to...

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ITV Play of the Week

as Charles Norbury
First aired: 1955-09-27

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to...

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ITV Play of the Week

as Lewis Eliot
First aired: 1955-09-27

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to...

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ITV Play of the Week

as Robert Cosgrove
First aired: 1955-09-27

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to...

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Out of the Unknown

as Wattari
First aired: 1965-10-04

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by...

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Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

as Mme Sacramento
First aired: 1968-03-11

L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage...

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Maigret

as Peter the Lett
First aired: 1960-10-31

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...

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The Expert

as Dr John Hardy
First aired: 1968-07-05

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series...

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Holocaust

as Heinrich Palitz
First aired: 1978-04-16

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman,...

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Lilli Palmer Theatre

as Reinhardt
First aired: 1955-09-25

A half-hour anthology series.

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Lilli Palmer Theatre

as Major Edward Carter
First aired: 1955-09-25

A half-hour anthology series.

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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents

as Nicol Pascal
First aired: 1953-01-07

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, is a 1950s syndicated anthology series hosted and occasionally...

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The Great War

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-05-30

A milestone 26-part history of the First World War, conceived to mark the 50th anniversary of...

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House of Caradus

as Magnus Bronsky
First aired: 1979-02-23

The story is about a long-established and highly respected family firm of auctioneers, the House...

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Levkas Man

as Dr. Pieter Gerrard
First aired: 1981-03-18

Levkas Man is a 1981 mini series about a doctor who goes to the Greek island of Levkas to prove...

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Thirteen Against Fate

as Monsieur Hire
First aired: 1966-06-19

Thirteen Against Fate is a series of thirteen hour-long episodes based on the novels of Georges...

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Wilde Alliance

as Rex
First aired: 1978-01-17

Wilde Alliance is a British television series produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV...

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