Marius Goring

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Marius Goring CBE (born May 23, 1912 in Newport , Isle of Wight , † September 30, 1998 in Rushlake Green , Heathfield ) was a British actor .

Life

Goring was born to the doctor Charles Goring and the concert pianist Kate Macdonald. When Marius was six years old, his father died. His mother supported his artistic talent, so he went to the theater stage. He studied at Cambridge University as well as in Germany and Paris . He made his theater debut in London in The Voysey Inheritance . In the 1930s he appeared in Shakespeare plays such as Macbeth . Even as his film career took off, Goring continued to perform in some of London's major stages.

Goring worked in the cinema from 1936 as an actor, initially in rather smaller roles. He had his most successful phase as a film actor in the 1940s and 1950s. He was best known for his four films with the directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger , here in particular his roles as an eccentric angel who has to bring the deceased to heaven, in Error in the Hereafter (1946) and as an aspiring young composer in The Red Shoes (1948). From the 1960s onwards he was seen less often in the cinema, but more often in British television productions. In Great Britain, the leading role of pathologist John Hardy in the crime series The Expert (1968–1976) brought him greater prominence. He has also stood in the 1990 film comedy Love Roulette alongside Molly Ringwald and John Gielgud in front of the camera.

Marius Goring was married three times: from 1931 to the divorce in 1941 with Mary Westwood Steel, then with the German actress Lucie Mannheim until her death in 1976, then with Prudence Fitzgerald from 1977 until his death. In 1991 he was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his acting roles . He is buried in St. Mary's Churchyard in Warbleton , East Sussex .

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SURNAME Goring, Marius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport , Isle of Wight
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1998
Place of death Rushlake Green , Heathfield