1912-05-23 ( 112 years old ) in 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.
Movies
Strike It Rich
1990-01-26
The Late Nancy Irving
1984-11-26
Cymbeline
1982-12-20
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978-11-06
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978-08-23
Zeppelin
1971-04-08
First Love
1970-10-07
Subterfuge
1968-12-12
The Girl on a Motorcycle
1968-06-21
Der Monat der fallenden Blätter
1968-03-10
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
1967-07-01
The 25th Hour
1967-04-26
A Walk in the Sea
1966-03-09
Up from the Beach
1965-05-25
The Crooked Road
1965-02-03
The Devil's Agent
1962-09-01
The Inspector
1962-05-24
The Secret Thread
1962-01-05
Life of Adolf Hitler
1961-09-01
The Devil's Daffodil
1961-07-20
The Unstoppable Man
1961-06-21
Exodus
1960-12-15
Beyond the Curtain
1960-04-01
The Angry Hills
1959-07-29
The Treasure of San Teresa
1959-07-21
Asmodée
1959-06-09
Whirlpool
1959-03-01
Desert Mice
1959-01-05
Son of Robin Hood
1958-11-01
I Was Monty's Double
1958-10-21
The Moonraker
1958-08-02
An Ideal Husband
1958-06-08
Rx Murder
1958-02-18
The Truth About Women
1957-10-01
Many Mansions
1957-03-29
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957-01-31
Gaslicht
1956-05-29
The Magic Carpet
1956-01-01
Quentin Durward
1955-09-09
Break in the Circle
1955-01-01
The Barefoot Contessa
1954-09-29
The Mirror and Markheim
1954-01-01
Tonight in Britain
1954-01-01
Rough Shoot
1953-03-30
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
1952-12-01
So Little Time
1952-04-18
Nights on the Road
1952-01-14
The Magic Box
1952-01-01
Circle of Danger
1951-04-17
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
1951-04-13
Highly Dangerous
1950-12-06
Odette
1950-10-02
Box for One
1949-06-10
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948-09-27
The Red Shoes
1948-09-06
Take My Life
1947-05-30
A Matter of Life and Death
1946-12-15
Night Boat to Dublin
1946-01-08
The Night Invader
1943-12-05
The Big Blockade
1942-01-19
Kill or be Killed
1942-01-01
The Case of the Frightened Lady
1940-09-28
Pastor Hall
1940-05-28
The Spy in Black
1939-08-03
Flying Fifty-Five
1939-05-01
Consider Your Verdict
1938-11-24
The Bear
1938-09-11
Dead Men Tell No Tales
1938-02-01
Rembrandt
1936-11-06
The Amateur Gentleman
1936-04-26
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