Marius Goring
| Marius Goring | |
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Goring as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes (1948)
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| Born |
23 May 1912 Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK |
| Died | 30 September 1998 (aged 86) Rushlake Green, Heathfield, East Sussex, England, UK |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1926–1990 |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Westwood Steel (1931–41; div.) Lucie Mannheim (1941–76; her death) Prudence Fitzgerald (1977–98; his death) |
| Children | 1 child |
Marius Goring, CBE (23 May 1912 – 30 September 1998) was an English stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death and as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes. He regularly performed French and German roles.
Goring was born in Newport, Isle of Wight, England, the son of Dr Charles Goring and Kate Macdonald. After attending the Perse School in Cambridge, where he became a friend of an older boy, the future documentary film maker Humphrey Jennings, he studied at the universities of Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Paris. He first performed professionally in 1927. His early stage career included appearances at the Old Vic, Sadler's Wells, Stratford and several European tours; he was fluent in French and German. He first worked in the West End in a 1934 revival of Granville-Barker's The Voysey Inheritance at the Shaftesbury Theatre. During the 1930s, he played a variety of Shakespearean roles, including Feste in Twelfth Night (1937), Macbeth and Romeo, in addition to Trip in Sheridan's The School for Scandal. In 1929, he became a founding member of British Equity, the actors' union, and became its president from 1963 to 1965, and again from 1975 to 1982. Goring's relationship with his union was fraught with conflict: he took it to litigation on three occasions. In 1992 he unsuccessfully sought to end the block on the sale of radio and television programmes to (the still) apartheid South Africa.
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