Autographs of Marius Goring
Marius Re Goring CBE FRSL (23 May 1912 – 30 September 1998) was an English stage and screen actor. He is best 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 is also known for playing the title role in the long-running TV drama series, The Expert. He 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. However, in a 1965 interview, he explained that he was not of German descent, stating that "Goring is a completely English name." More about Marius Goring
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Goring was born in Newport, Isle of Wight, the son of the eminent physician and researcher Dr Charles Buckman Goring (1870-1919), the author of The English Convict, and Kate Winifred (née Macdonald, 1874–1964), a professional pianist of Scottish descent who was also a suffragette. He had an older brother, Donald, who died in Yemen, in 1936, from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. After attending The Perse School in Cambridge, where he became a friend of an older boy, the future documentary film maker Humphrey Jennings, Goring studied modern languages at the universities of Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Paris. Encouraged by both of his parents to pursue his acting ambitions, he made his professional debut in 1927 playing Harlequin. He studied under Harcourt Williams at the Old Vic dramatic school from 1929 to 1932. In 1931, he toured Germany and France with the English Classical Players performing in Shakespearean and classic English plays. Having become fluent in French and German, he joined La Compagnie des Quinze, under the directorship of Michel Saint-Denis, in 1934. He would later encourage Saint-Denis to come to England and work as a director. His early stage career in England included appearances at the Old Vic, Sadler's Wells and in the West End from 1932 through to 1940. During that period, he played a variety of Shakespearean roles at the Old Vic, including the title role in Macbeth and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (1933), Feste in Twelfth Night (1937), in addition to Trip in Sheridan's The School for Scandal. He first worked in the West End in a 1934 revival of Granville-Barker's The Voysey Inheritance at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
In 1929, he became a founding member of British Equity, the actors' union, served on its council from 1949 and was three times its vice-president from 1963 to 1965, 1975 to 1977 and again from 1980 to 1982. Goring's relationship with his union was fraught with conflict: he took it to litigation on three occasions. In 1978, regarding the issue of the supremacy of a referendum to decide Equity rules, he took it as far as the House of Lords and won his case. In 1992, he unsuccessfully sought to end the restriction on the sale of radio and television programmes to apartheid South Africa. Stressing that he opposed apartheid and would not perform for segregated audiences, he argued that the ban was depriving actors of work, and stated that he wished to stage a production of the play She Stoops to Conquer with an all-black cast. This particular litigation nearly bankrupted him, due to heavy court costs. Read even more about Marius Goring at Wikipedia
In 1929, he became a founding member of British Equity, the actors' union, served on its council from 1949 and was three times its vice-president from 1963 to 1965, 1975 to 1977 and again from 1980 to 1982. Goring's relationship with his union was fraught with conflict: he took it to litigation on three occasions. In 1978, regarding the issue of the supremacy of a referendum to decide Equity rules, he took it as far as the House of Lords and won his case. In 1992, he unsuccessfully sought to end the restriction on the sale of radio and television programmes to apartheid South Africa. Stressing that he opposed apartheid and would not perform for segregated audiences, he argued that the ban was depriving actors of work, and stated that he wished to stage a production of the play She Stoops to Conquer with an all-black cast. This particular litigation nearly bankrupted him, due to heavy court costs. Read even more about Marius Goring at Wikipedia
Traded items with a signature of Marius Goring
The most expensive item with a signature of Marius Goring (Superb MARIUS GORING-Signed 8x10 Pic as `Conductor 71 A Matter Of Life & Death) was sold in July 2013 for £68.88 while the cheapest item (MARIUS GORING signed 3X5 printed pic (The Expert, The Red Shoes)) found a new owner for £0.99 in May 2020. The month with the most items sold (2) was February 2016 with an average selling price of £8.49 for an autographed item of Marius Goring. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2015 with £55.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was March 2014. In average, an autographed item from Marius Goring is worth £10.00.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Marius Goring were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Item Title | Price | Store | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1912-1998 MARIUS GORING, 'The Expert' promo card photo, ORIGINALLY SIGNED! | £22.66 | |
| Doctor Who MAX HARVEY & MARIUS GORING +2 hand signed page | £25.00 | |
| Dr Who 1967 x6 MARIUS GORING d1998 A Matter of Life & Death signed letter 1944 | £3.95 | |
| MARIUS GORING & MICK ROBERTSON (Magpie) Genuine Autographs. COA. | £4.00 | |
| Marius Goring , vintage signed page AFTAL #145 | £10.50 | |
| MARIUS GORING `A Matter of Life & Death` (Conductor) - signed piece & PC pic | £3.95 | |
| Marius Goring CBE (A Matter of Life and Death) Signed PR Card | £9.00 | |
| Marius Goring Dr Who actor Signed 6x4 White Card Autographed | £17.50 | |
| MARIUS GORING Genuine Autographed Display. 10 x 8. COA. | £9.99 | |
| Marius Goring signed autograph album page 1985 English actor Doctor Who Hammer | £14.99 | |
| Marius Goring signed autograph album page English Actor Doctor Who Hammer Horror | £19.99 | |
| MARIUS GORING VINTAGE HAND SIGNED PIECE FILM TV ACTOR DR WHO | £8.59 | |
| MARIUS GORING, THE RED SHOES, THE EXPERT. GENUINE HAND SIGNED ON THE REVERSE. | £5.00 | |
| MARIUS GORING-Actor-A Matter Of Life & Death + The Red Shoes-1940's-Signed Pic | £64.57 | |
| NOELE GORDON & MARIUS GORING - Hand Signed Autographs. | £10.00 | |