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.
Birthday: May 23, 1912
Death: September 30, 1998
December 15, 1960
January 14, 1952
September 28, 1940
September 29, 1954
December 15, 1946
June 21, 1968
December 01, 1952
November 06, 1978
April 13, 1951
March 09, 1966
April 17, 1951
October 02, 1950
September 06, 1948
September 01, 1961
January 31, 1957
August 03, 1939
September 09, 1955
October 21, 1958
December 06, 1950
March 30, 1953
May 30, 1947
May 24, 1962
February 03, 1965
April 01, 1960
July 21, 1959
March 01, 1959
October 07, 1970
September 27, 1948
January 01, 1955
May 28, 1940
April 18, 1952
May 01, 1939
August 02, 1958
August 23, 1978
April 08, 1971
September 01, 1962
June 21, 1961
April 26, 1936
November 01, 1958
February 01, 1938
February 18, 1958
July 29, 1959
January 01, 1942
December 05, 1943
January 26, 1990
January 19, 1942
May 25, 1965
October 01, 1957
January 01, 1952
January 05, 1959
December 20, 1982
March 10, 1968
July 20, 1961
July 01, 1967
January 08, 1946
November 06, 1936
June 09, 1959
January 05, 1962
April 26, 1967
June 08, 1958
December 12, 1968
June 10, 1949
September 11, 1938
November 24, 1938
January 01, 1954
May 29, 1956
March 29, 1957
January 01, 1956
November 26, 1984
September 28, 1955
November 23, 1963
March 24, 1979
July 05, 1968
November 08, 1978
October 07, 1965
January 17, 1978
March 28, 1967
October 04, 1965
June 19, 1966
October 08, 1965
November 18, 1982
January 07, 1953
January 01, 1950
February 23, 1979
March 18, 1981
March 15, 1974
September 22, 1963
March 11, 1968
December 26, 1959
September 25, 1960
October 02, 1959
September 27, 1967
December 03, 1978
September 25, 1955
March 19, 1961
February 02, 1963
June 03, 1963
September 27, 1955
May 30, 1964
September 05, 1984
October 31, 1960
September 13, 1980
September 15, 1983
September 30, 1964
April 16, 1978