![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: May 23, 1912 in Newport, Isle of Wight, England Death: September 30, 1998 Biography:Frequently cast as a world-weary continental, Marius Goring actually hails from the British Isle of Wight. The son of a physician, Goring was educated at Cambridge and in Europe, picking up an "ear" for foreign dialects along the way. An amateur actor since his teens, Goring made his professional stage debut in the early 1930s. His official film debut was in the lush-budgeted "Rembrandt" (1936), though in fact he first appeared on camera in the 1935 quota quickie "Consider Your Verdict". Goring was at his flamboyant best in a brace of Powell-Pressburger productions of the 1940s: he played the Gallic "Operator 71" in the 1946 fantasy "A Matter of Life and Death" and was seen as the brilliant composer Julian Craster in "The Red Shoes" (1947). As the neurotic millionaire yachtsman Alberto Bravano in "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954), Goring elicited boos from the gentlemen in the audience as he tried to... Full Biography
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