20 Facts About Marius Goring

Marius Goring is known for playing the titular role in the long-running TV drama series, The Expert.

Marius Goring regularly performed French and German roles, and was frequently cast in the latter because of his name, coupled with his red-gold hair and blue eyes.

Marius Goring was born in Newport, Isle of Wight, the son of the eminent physician and researcher Dr Charles Buckman Marius Goring, the author of The English Convict, and Kate Winifred, a professional pianist of Scottish descent who was a suffragette.

Marius Goring had an older brother, Donald, who died in Yemen, in 1936, from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident.

Marius Goring studied under Harcourt Williams at the Old Vic dramatic school from 1929 to 1932.

Marius Goring first worked in the West End in a 1934 revival of Granville-Barker's The Voysey Inheritance at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

In November 1931, at the age of nineteen, he married twenty-nine year old Mary Westwood Steel at Gretna Green, Scotland and their only child, a daughter Phyllida Mariette Marius Goring, was born in March 1932 and died in 2018.

Marius Goring wanted to go ahead with the wedding but Susy's father, Michel Salaman, would not allow it.

Marius Goring shared his one scene in this film with the star Charles Laughton, with whom he had previously worked on stage at the Old Vic.

Marius Goring made two further films released in 1939: Flying Fifty-Five with Derrick de Marney where he showed off his comedic skills playing an amusing drunkard and co-starred with Conrad Veidt in his first Powell and Pressburger film, The Spy in Black, an intriguing spy thriller set during World War One, where he played a German officer for the first of many times in his film career.

Marius Goring joined the British Army in June 1940, and was seconded in 1941 to the BBC as supervisor of radio productions broadcasting to Germany as part of the BBC German Service.

Marius Goring made broadcasts under the name Charles Richardson, because of the association of his name with Hermann Goring.

Marius Goring worked with Goring in many stage productions from the 1930s onwards and in seven episodes of The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, one of which he wrote especially for her, as well as in several films.

Marius Goring played Colonel Gunther von Hohensee in So Little Time, which featured Maria Schell, one of his rare romantic leads and frequent roles playing a German officer.

Marius Goring considered the film one of his favourites, alongside the four films he made with Powell and Pressburger.

Marius Goring's voice provides the narration of the sound and light show performed regularly in the evening at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.

Marius Goring was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1979 and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991.

Marius Goring died from stomach cancer in 1998 aged 86 at his home in Rushlake Green, East Sussex, survived by his third wife, Prudence and daughter, Phyllida.

Marius Goring is buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Warbleton, East Sussex near Rushlake Green with his wife, Prudence, who died in 2018.

Marius Goring appears as a character in the 2023 BBC radio play, A Wireless War, in which he is recruited by the Radio Drama Company to voice Adolf Hitler in a serial about the rise of Nazi Germany.