Marius Goring

Marius Goring, CBE was an English stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the four films he made with Powell amp 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, Sadlers 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 GranvilleBarkers The Voysey Inheritance at the Shaftesbury Theatre. During the 1930s, he played a variety of Shakespearean roles, including Feste in Twelfth Night , Macbeth and Romeo, in addition to Trip in Sheridans 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. Gorings relationship with his union was fraught with c

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