Marius Goring
Marius Re Goring was an English stage and screen actor. He often portrayed urbane and morally-grey characters, and 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 titular role in the long-running TV drama series, The Expert.
Early life
Goring was born in Newport, Isle of Wight, the son of the eminent physician and researcher Charles Buckman Goring, the author of The English Convict, and Kate Winifred, 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.
Career
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, Feste in Twelfth Night, 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.
In November 1931, at the age of nineteen, he married twenty-nine year old Mary Westwood Steel at Gretna Green, Scotland and their only child, a daughter Phyllida Mariette Goring, was born in March 1932 and died in 2018. The marriage did not succeed and he became engaged in 1935 to ballet choreographer and designer, Susan 'Susy' Salaman, older sister of Merula Salaman, wife of Alec Guinness. Susy contracted acute encephalitis in late 1935 and was left brain-damaged. Goring wanted to go ahead with the wedding but Susy's father, Michel Salaman, would not allow it.
In 1935, he co-founded the London Theatre Studio with Michel Saint-Denis, George Devine and Glen Byam Shaw. It trained actors, directors and designers and was a precursor of the Old Vic Theatre School; Goring taught Shakespeare there. It had to close in late 1939 due to the outbreak of war.
Goring's film career began with an uncredited role in The Amateur Gentleman with Douglas Fairbanks Jr and a small speaking role in Rembrandt. He shared his one scene in this film with the star Charles Laughton, with whom he had previously worked on stage at the Old Vic. He made two further films released in 1939: Flying Fifty-Five with Derrick de Marney where he showed off his comedic skills playing an amusing drunkard and co-starred with Conrad Veidt in his first Powell and Pressburger film, The Spy in Black, an intriguing spy thriller set during World War One, where he played a German officer for the first of many times in his film career.
When war was declared in September 1939, he was back in the West End as Pip in a production of Great Expectations, adapted for the stage by Alec Guinness. Along with all other plays, it was closed down temporarily by the war but was the first to resume when theatres were reopened in early 1940. He joined the British Army in June 1940, and was seconded in 1941 to the BBC as supervisor of radio productions broadcasting to Germany as part of the BBC German Service. He made broadcasts under the name Charles Richardson, because of the association of his name with Hermann Göring. In 1944 he became a member of the intelligence staff of SHAEF where he attained the rank of colonel. Because of the broadcasts he had been making to Germany, set up by the Foreign Office as a counter to William Joyce, he was put on a Nazi hit-list.
In 1941, he married his second wife, the German actress Lucie Mannheim. Mannheim, who was Jewish, had been a principal actress in the Berlin Theatre but had to leave Germany when the Nazis came to power. She worked with Goring in many stage productions from the 1930s onwards and in seven episodes of The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, one of which he wrote especially for her, as well as in several films. Mannheim died in 1976, and the next year Goring married television director/producer Prudence Fitzgerald, who had directed him in many episodes of The Expert.
In the film A Matter of Life and Death Goring played Conductor 71, whose role is to 'conduct' Peter Carter to the afterlife. In The Red Shoes, he played Julian Craster, a young composer who wins the heart of ballerina Vicky Page and clashes with the imperious ballet impresario, Boris Lermontov. In the film Odette released in the UK in 1950, Goring played the role of Colonel Henri, a German Abwehr officer who deceived and captured Odette. The film is based on the true story of Odette Sansom, the first living woman to be awarded the George Cross. The real Odette Sansom was later a witness at his marriage to Prudence Fitzgerald in 1977. He played Colonel Günther von Hohensee in So Little Time, which also featured Maria Schell, one of his rare romantic leads and frequent roles playing a German officer. He considered the film one of his favourites, alongside the four films he made with Powell and Pressburger.
His TV work included starring as Sir Percy Blakeney in The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a series which he also co-wrote and produced; Theodore Maxtible in the Doctor Who story The Evil of the Daleks ; Professor John Hardy in The Expert ; Paul von Hindenburg in Fall of Eagles ; King George V in Edward & Mrs. Simpson and Emile Englander in The Old Men at the Zoo.
Goring's voice provides the narration of the sound and light show performed regularly in the evening at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.
Honours
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1979 and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991.
Personal life
Goring was married three times, to Mary Westwood Steel, Lucie Mannheim, and Prudence Fitzgerald. He had a daughter, Phyllida, with his first wife.
As an adult, Goring 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, fluency in both languages, and a marriage to German actress Lucie Mannheim. However, he did not possess any known German ancestry. In a 1965 interview, he explained that he was not of German descent, stating that "Goring is a completely English name." As BFI Screenonline noted, "Goring, in nearly 50 films, maintained an urbane image - when, that is, he wasn't being notably sinister. Wholly British as he was, he was remarkably adept at suggesting foreigners."
Death
He died from stomach cancer in 1998 aged 86 at his home in Rushlake Green, East Sussex. He is buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Warbleton, East Sussex near Rushlake Green with his wife, Prudence, who died in 2018.
Portrayal in fiction
Goring appears as a character in the 2023 BBC radio play, A Wireless War, in which he is recruited by the Radio Drama Company to voice Adolf Hitler in a serial about the rise of Nazi Germany. He is played by Josh Bryant-Jones.
Filmography
Film
The Amateur Gentleman - Minor Role Rembrandt - Baron Leivens Dead Men Tell No Tales - GreeningConsider Your Verdict - The NovelistFlying Fifty-Five - Charles BarringtonThe Spy in Black * - Lt. Felix SchusterPastor Hall - Fritz GerteThe Case of the Frightened Lady - Lord LebanonThe Big Blockade - German Propaganda OfficerThe Night Invader - OberleutnantThe True Story of Lili Marlene - NarratorNight Boat to Dublin - Frederick JanningsA Matter of Life and Death * - Conductor 71Take My Life - Sidney FlemingThe Red Shoes * - Julian CrasterMr. Perrin and Mr. Traill - Vincent PerrinOdette - Colonel HenriHighly Dangerous - Commandant Anton RazinskiPandora and the Flying Dutchman - Reggie DemarestCircle of Danger - Sholto LewisThe Magic Box - House AgentNights on the Road - Kurt WillbrandtSo Little Time - Colonel Günther von HohenseeThe Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Inspector LucasRough Shoot - HiartThe Mirror and Markheim - NarratorThe Barefoot Contessa - Alberto BravanoBreak in the Circle - Baron KellerThe Adventures of Quentin Durward - Count Philip de CrevilleGaslicht - Jack ManninghamThe Magic Carpet Ill Met by Moonlight * - Major General KreipeThe Truth About Women - Otto KersteinRx Murder - Doctor Henry DysertThe Moonraker - Colonel BeaumontAn Ideal Husband - Lord GoringI Was Monty's Double - Karl NielsonThe Son of Robin Hood - ChesterThe Angry Hills - Col. Elrick ObergWhirlpool - GeorgAsmodée - Blaise LebelThe Treasure of San Teresa - Rudi SiebertDesert Mice - German MajorBeyond the Curtain - Hans KörtnerExodus - Von StorchThe Unstoppable Man - Inspector HazelriggThe Devil's Daffodil - Oliver MilburghThe Secret Thread - Arnold ReedThe Inspector - ThorensThe Devil's Agent - Gen. GreenhahnThe Crooked Road - HarlequinUp from the Beach - German CommandantThe 25th Hour - Col. MullerDer Monat der fallenden Blätter - Erster GeheimagentThe Girl on a Motorcycle - Rebecca's FatherSubterfuge - ShevikFirst Love - Dr. LushinZeppelin - Prof. AltschulLa petite fille en velours bleu - Raimondo CasarèsMeetings with Remarkable Men Cymbeline - Sicilius LeonatusStrike It Rich - Blixon
* Powell and Pressburger productions
Television
The Bear : Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a landowner with Lucie MannheimBox for One : The CallerOn the Harmful Effects of Tobacco : Ivan Ivanovich NyukhinYou Are There : Oliver Cromwell in ‘The Trial of Charles the First’ Douglas Fairbanks Presents : Nicol Pascal in ‘The Rehearsal’ Lilli Palmer Theatre : Reinhardt in ‘Mossbach Collection’ and Major Edward Carter in ‘Episode in Paris’ The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel : Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel in eighteen episodes with Lucie Mannheim in seven episodesMany Mansions : Lester HockleyBBC Sunday Night Theatre : Tommy Savidge in ‘Promise of Tomorrow’ ; Chorus in ‘The Life of Henry V’ ; Hjalmar Ekdal in ‘The Wild Duck’ ; General Harras in ‘The Devil’s General’ ; Dr Cranmer in ‘The White Falcon’ ; Crystof Walters in ‘The Cold Light’ ; Robert Clive in ‘Clive of India’ and Richard Brinsley Sheridan in ‘The Lass of Richmond Hill’ International Detective : Ferdie Steibel in ‘The Steibel Case’ BBC Sunday-Night Play : Alexis Turbin in ‘The White Guard’ ; General Harras in ‘The Devil’s General’ ; Laye-Parker in ‘A Call on Kuprin and John Lock in ‘The Money Machine’ Drama 61-67 : Captain in ‘The Cruel Day’ and Mervyn in ‘Room for Justice’ 24-Hour Call : Sam Bullivant in ‘Love for Caroline’First Night : Grieve Wishart in ‘The Youngest Profession’ Maigret : Peter the Lett in ‘Peter the Lett’ The Third Man : Colonel Dimonella in ‘A Question in Ice’ Love Story : Robert Langley in ‘In Loving Memory’ The Great War : Various voices in twenty-six episodesThe Mask of Janus : Dr Kapaka in ‘Why Not Call Me Kruschev?’Thirteen Against Fate : Monsieur Hire in ‘The Suspect’Out of the Unknown : Wattari in ‘Too Many Cooks’ ITV Play of the Week : John Hagerman in ‘The Breath of Fools’ ; Purcell in ‘The Darkness Outside’ ; Charles Norbury in ‘The Sound of Murder’, Lewis Eliot in ‘The New Men’ and Robert Cosgrove in ‘On the Island’ The Revenue Men : Kersten in ‘The Traders’ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : Lord Linchmere in ‘The Beetle Hunter’Doctor Who : Theodore Maxtible in The Evil of the Daleks The Wednesday Play : Reverend Harrup in ‘A Walk in the Sea’ and Sir Hubert in ‘Sleeping Dogs’ Man in a Suitcase : Henri Thibaud in ‘Blind Spot’ Le dossiers de l’agence O : Madame Sacramento in ‘Le club des vieilles dames’ Thirty-Minute Theatre : Mr Ponge in ‘Mr Ponge’ and The Interrogator in ‘The Year of the Crow’ The Expert : Professor John Hardy in sixty-two episodesFall of Eagles : Von Hindenburg in ‘The Secret War’ and ‘End Game’2nd House : Humboldt in ‘Saul Bellow’ Wilde Alliance : Rex in ‘Things That Go Bump’Holocaust : Heinrich Palitz in Part OneEdward & Mrs. Simpson : King George V in ‘Venus at the Prow’ and ‘The Little Prince’House of Caradus : Bronksy in ‘The Girl in the Blue Dress’Tales of the Unexpected : Dr John Landy in ‘William and Mary’ Hammer House of Horror : Heinz in ‘Charlie Boy’Levkas Man : Dr Pieter Gerrard in six episodesThe Year of the French : Lord Glenthorne in Episode OneThe Old Men at the Zoo : Emile Englander in five episodesHammer House of Mystery and Suspense : Angus Aragon in ‘The Late Nancy Irving’ Highway : Guest interviewed by host Sir Harry Secombe in episode 'Festivals' Gnostics : Episode 3: Divinity of Man: Hermes Trismegistus & Prospero Woburn at War : Presenter
Stage appearances
Crossings: A Fairy Play as a Fairy with Angela Baddeley at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge. This was his amateur theatrical debutJean Stirling Mackinlay Children's Matinee: Dr Doolittle's Play as Harlequin at The Rudolf Steiner Hall, London. This was his professional theatrical debutJean Stirling Mackinlay Children's Matinee: Dr Doolittle's Play & King John's Christmas as Harlequin at The Rudolf Steiner Hall, LondonLes Femmes Savantes as Trissotin at the ADC Theatre, CambridgeMacbeth, The Merchant of Venice, She Stoops to Conquer & The School for Scandal with the English Classical Players touring Germany and FranceJulius Caesar as a Spear Carrier at The Old Vic, LondonCaesar and Cleopatra as Persian at The Old Vic, London and Sadler's Wells Theatre, LondonAs You Like It as Le Beau at The Old Vic, LondonMacbeth as Macbeth at The Old Vic, London and Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. He undertook 3 performances as Macbeth when Malcolm Keen and understudy Alastair Sim were too incapacitated to performThe Merchant of Venice as Salanio at The Old Vic, London. Directed by John GielgudShe Stoops to Conquer as Aminadab at The Old Vic, LondonThe Winter's Tale as Cleomenes at The Old Vic, LondonCymbeline as Second Lord at The Old Vic, LondonThe Admirable Bashville as First Policeman with Anthony Quayle, Alastair Sim and Roger Livesey at The Old Vic, LondonRomeo and Juliet as Romeo with Peggy Ashcroft as Juliet at The Old Vic, London and Sadler's Wells Theatre, LondonThe School for Scandal as Trip with Alastair Sim, Peggy Ashcroft, Roger Livesey and Anthony Quayle at The Old Vic, LondonShakespeare Birthday Festival at The Old Vic, LondonThe Tempest as Adrian at The Old Vic, London and Sadler's Wells Theatre, LondonA Midsummer Night's Dream as a Faerie with the Oxford University Dramatic Society at Headington Hill Park, Oxford. Produced & directed by Max ReinhardtTwelfth Night as Sebastian at The Old Vic, LondonThe Cherry Orchard as Yepikhodov with Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Flora Robson and James Mason at The Old Vic, London. Directed by Michel Saint-DenisHenry VIII as Cardinal Campeius/Garter King of Arms with Charles Laughton, Roger Livesey and Flora Robson at Sadler's Wells Theatre, LondonMeasure for Measure as Friar Peter/Abhorson with Charles Laughton, Roger Livesey and Flora Robson at The Old Vic, LondonThe Tempest as Alonso at Sadler's Wells Theatre, LondonLove for Love as Buckram with Charles Laughton, Flora Robson, Roger Livesey and James Mason at Sadler's Wells Theatre, LondonShakespeare Birthday Festival at The Old Vic, LondonMacbeth as Malcolm with Charles Laughton as Macbeth at The Old Vic, LondonThe Voysey Inheritance as Hugh Voysey at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London and Shaftesbury Theatre, London. The Shaftesbury Theatre was his first appearance in the West EndHamlet, The Rape of Lucrèce as Tarquin & Riders to the Sea as Bartley with La Compagnie des Quinze in France, Belgium & The NetherlandsShakespeare Birthday Festival at The Old Vic, LondonHamlet as Hamlet and Fortinbras at The Old Vic, London. Malcolm Keen played Hamlet in the full version performancesNoah as Japheth with John Gielgud as Noah at the New Theatre, London. Directed by Michel Saint-DenisThe Hangman as Gallows Lasse at the Duke of York's Theatre, LondonSowers of the Hills as Aubert at the Westminster Theatre, London. Directed by Michel Saint-DenisMary Tudor as Philip of Spain with Flora Robson as Mary Tudor at Streatham Hill Theatre, Golders Green Hippodrome, Playhouse Theatre, London and Sadler's Wells Theatre, LondonRepayment as Paul Novak with Margaret Lockwood at the Arts Theatre, LondonThe Happy Hypocrite as Amor with Ivor Novello and Vivien Leigh at His Majesty's Theatre, LondonThe Ante-Room as Vincent de Courcy O'Regan with Diana Wynyard and Jessica Tandy at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh and the Manchester Opera HouseGirl Unknown as Max with Lucie Mannheim at the New Theatre, London and the Golders Green Hippodrome. Produced by Lucie MannheimThe Wild Duck as Gregors Werle at the Westminster Theatre, LondonThe Witch of Edmonton as Frank Thorney with Edith Evans, Alec Guinness and Michael Redgrave at The Old Vic, London. Directed by Michel Saint-DenisHamlet as First Player and Fortinbras with Laurence Olivier as Hamlet, Michael Redgrave and Alec Guinness at The Old Vic, LondonTwelfth Night as Feste with Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness at The Old Vic, LondonShakespeare Birthday Festival at The Old Vic, LondonHenry V as Chorus with Laurence Olivier as Henry V at The Old Vic, LondonSatyr as Peter de Meyer with A. E. Matthews and Flora Robson at King's Theatre, Edinburgh and Shaftesbury Theatre, LondonA Woman Killed with Kindness 5 scenes at the London Theatre Studio. He produced and directed this performance but did not appear in itThe Last Straw as Wolfe Guldeford with Lucie Mannheim at the Comedy Theatre, London. Produced & directed by Lucie MannheimSurprise Item as Arthur Primmer at the Ambassadors Theatre, LondonHenry Irving Centenary Matinee - Scene from Louis XI at the Lyceum Theatre, LondonThe White Guard as Leonid Shervinsky at the Phoenix Theatre, London. Directed by Michel Saint-DenisNora with Lucie Mannheim at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. Goring produced this play but did not appear in itLady Fanny as Lord Bantock with Lucie Mannheim at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. He also directed this productionNina as Schimmelmann with Lucie Mannheim as Nina at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin and Duke of York's Theatre, London. He also directed this productionHamlet as First Player and Osric with John Gielgud as Hamlet performed at the Lyceum Theatre, London and at Kronborg, Helsingør, Denmark. He co-directed this production with John GielgudGreat Expectations as Pip with Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket and Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham at The Rudolf Steiner Hall, London. Play adapted by Alec Guinness from the novel by Charles DickensThe Tempest as Ariel with John Gielgud as Prospero and Alec Guinness as Ferdinand at The Old Vic, London. He co-directed this production with George DevineMonsieur Lamberthier as Maurice with Lucie Mannheim in English and German on tour in Germany Rosmersholm as Johannes Rosmer with his wife Lucie Mannheim as Rebecca West at the Arts Theatre, London. Directed by Alec ClunesToo True To Be Good as Aubrey Bagot with Lucie Mannheim at the Arts Theatre, London. Directed by Alec ClunesThe Cherry Orchard as Peter Trofimov at the Arts Theatre, London. Directed by Alec ClunesMarriage as Ivan Kuzmich Podkolyosin with Lucie Mannheim at the Arts Theatre, London. Directed by Alec ClunesThe Bear as Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov with Lucie Mannheim at the Arts Theatre, London. Directed by Alec ClunesThe Third Man/Jealousy/Monsieur Lamberthier as Maurice with Lucie Mannheim at the Arts Theatre, London, Oldham Repertory Theatre Club, Manchester and on tour in Germany. Directed by Alec ClunesDaphne Laureola as Ernest Piaste with Lucie Mannheim as Lady Pitts on tour in Germany100 Thousand Talers as Mr von Kammersdorf with Lucie Mannheim at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, Berlin, GermanyThe Madwoman of Chaillot as The Rag Picker with Martita Hunt at the St James's Theatre, LondonRichard III as Richard III at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford. Directed by Glen Byam ShawAntony and Cleopatra as Octavius Caesar with Michael Redgrave as Antony and Peggy Ashcroft as Cleopatra at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford and the Princes Theatre, London. Directed by Glen Byam ShawThe Taming of the Shrew as Petruchio with Yvonne Mitchell as Katherina at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford. Directed by George DevineKing Lear as The Fool with Michael Redgrave as Lear at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford. Directed by George DevineAntony and Cleopatra as Octavius Caesar with Michael Redgrave as Antony and Peggy Ashcroft as Cleopatra at the Koninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague & Royal Theatre Carré, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg, Antwerp & Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France. Directed by Glen Byam ShawScenes from Shakespeare leading a company to France at the Théâtre National Populaire, Paris and Annecy, Lyons, Lille, Amiens and DouaiScenes from Shakespeare leading a company to Helsinki, Finland including Rachel Gurney, Yvonne Furneaux, Roger Gage, Jennifer Wilson and John LaurieScenes from Shakespeare and Classical English Theatre leading a company to India and Ceylon including Rachel Gurney, Yvonne Furneaux, Roger Gage, Jennifer Wilson and John LaurieSavonarola Brown as Savonarola Brown at the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, LondonMeasure for Measure as Angelo with Judi Dench as Isabella at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, StratfordA Penny for a Song as Sir Timothy Bellboys with Judi Dench as Dorcas Bellboys at the Aldwych Theatre, LondonMenage à Trois as Charles with Phyllis Calvert at the Lyric Theatre, LondonKing Arthur as the Narrator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonThe Poker Session as Teddy at the Gate Theatre, Dublin in the Dublin Theatre Festival and the Globe Theatre, London. Goring played Teddy in the premiere production in DublinOedipus rex as the Narrator at the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, LondonKing Arthur as the Narrator at the Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Apple Cart as King Magnus with Barbara Murray at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, Manchester Opera House, New Wimbledon Theatre, Theatre Royal, Brighton and Golders Green Hippodrome, London The Devil's Disciple as General Burgoyne with Ian Bannen at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, GuildfordThe Bells as Mathias at the Derby Playhouse, The Alexandra, Birmingham, the Grand Theatre, Leeds and the Vaudeville Theatre, London. He also directed it in its Birmingham, Leeds and London productionsMarried Bliss at The Alexandra, Birmingham and Grand Theatre, Leeds. He directed this play only and did not act in it. It was curtain raiser to The BellsLend Me Five Shillings as Mr Golighty. He also directed it in its production at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. It was curtain raiser to The BellsThe Demonstration as Professor Bright at the Nottingham PlayhouseSleuth as Andrew Wyke at the St Martin's Theatre, LondonIf Music and Sweet Poetry Agree with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, StratfordTribute to the Lady at The Old Vic, LondonThe Wisest Fool as James I at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, The Alexandra, Birmingham, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, Civic Theatre, Darlington, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Richmond Theatre, London, Theatre Royal, Bath, Grand Theatre, Leeds and Hull New TheatreThe Concert as Gustav Hein with Barbara Murray at the York Theatre Royal and the Forum Theatre, BillinghamThis Wooden O at the Bankside Globe Playhouse, LondonHabeas Corpus as Arthur Wicksteed at the Liverpool PlayhouseThe Sun King at the Tatton Park, Cheshire and Royal Festival Hall, LondonSleuth as Andrew Wyke at the Liverpool PlayhouseJubilee Gaieties at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, New Wimbledon Theatre, London, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, Theatre Royal, Windsor and Wyvern Theatre, SwindonRoyal Thames at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with Judi DenchExit: Pursued by a Bear at the Pitlochry Festival TheatreThe Sun King at the Old Town Hall, Hemel HempsteadWoe to the Sparrows as Emperor Franz Josef at Northcott Theatre, ExeterLloyd George Knew My Father as General Sir William Boothroyd with Dulcie Gray at the Theatre Royal, Norwich, Theatre Royal, Bath, King's Theatre, Glasgow, Richmond Theatre, London, Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Key Theatre, Peterborough, Theatre Royal, Brighton, Nell Gwynne Theatre, Hereford, The Alexandra, Birmingham, Sunderland Empire Theatre, Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton, Beck Theatre, Hayes and Theatr y Werin, Aberystwyth Arts CentreHabeas Corpus as Arthur Wicksteed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, EdinburghThe Sun King at the Theatre Royal, WindsorZaide as the Narrator at The Old Vic, LondonThe Sun King at the Fermoy Centre, King's Lynn Peer Gynt as the Button Moulder at the Nottingham Playhouse, NottinghamThe Sun King at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, LondonMetamorphoses as Ovid at the Parry Theatre, Royal College of Music, LondonThe Dame of Sark as Colonel Count von Schmettau at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe, Playhouse Theatre, Harlow and Key Theatre, PeterboroughThe Winslow Boy as Arthur Winslow at the Forum Theatre, Wythenshawe, Grand Opera House, Belfast, Theatre Royal, Norwich, Beck Theatre, Hayes, Towngate Theatre, Poole, Kings Theatre, Southsea, Richmond Theatre, London, Civic Theatre, Darlington, Babbacombe Theatre, Torquay, Theatre Royal, Plymouth, New Theatre Royal Lincoln, Liverpool Empire Theatre, Swan Theatre, Worcester, His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, Orchard Theatre, Dartford and Ashcroft Theatre, CroydonI Have Been Here Before as Dr Görtler at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, King's Theatre, Glasgow, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, Kings Theatre, Southsea, Towngate Theatre, Poole, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, The Capitol Theatre, Horsham, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, Forum Theatre, Billingham, Oxford Playhouse, His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, Key Theatre, Peterborough and New Theatre, CardiffThe Apple Cart as Nicobar with Peter O'Toole and Michael Denison at the Theatre Royal, Bath and the Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonMystery Plays as God at Canterbury CathedralBeyond Reasonable Doubt as Lionel Hamilton at the Queens Theatre, LondonTowards Zero as Matthew Treves at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, Theatre Royal, Brighton, Cambridge Arts Theatre, The Hexagon, Reading, The Alexandra, Birmingham, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, Hull New Theatre, Derngate Theatre, Northampton, Grand Theatre, Blackpool, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, Theatre Royal, Margate, Liverpool Empire Theatre, New Theatre Royal Lincoln, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, Theatre Royal, Windsor, Theatre Royal, Newcastle, Manchester Opera House, Forum Theatre, Billingham, His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen and Eden Court Theatre, Inverness Sunsets and Glories as Cardinal Latino Malabranca Orsini at the West Yorkshire Leeds Playhouse, Leeds with Freddie Jones as Pope Celestine V. Directed by Stuart BurgeCerceau as Nikolai Lvovitch at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond