played Colonel Günther von Hohensee in So Little Time (1952), 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 (ITV, 1955) (a role which he also performed in a 1952-53 radio show), a series which he also co-wrote and produced; Theodore Maxtible in the Doctor Who story The Evil of the Daleks (BBC, 1967); Professor John Hardy in The Expert (BBC, 1968–1976); Paul von Hindenburg in Fall of Eagles (BBC, 1974); King George V in Edward & Mrs. Simpson (Thames, 1980) and Emile Englander in The Old Men at the Zoo (BBC, 1983). Goring's voice provides the narration of the sound and light show performed regularly in the evening at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1979 and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1991. He died from stomach cancer in 1998 aged 86 at his home in Rushlake Green, East Sussex, survived by his third wife, Prudence and daughter, Phyllida. 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. Complete filmography The Amateur Gentleman (1936) - Minor Role (uncredited) Rembrandt (1936) - Baron Leivens (uncredited) Dead Men Tell No Tales (1938) - Greening Consider Your Verdict (1938 short) - The Novelist Flying Fifty-Five (1939) - Charles Barrington The Spy in Black * (1939) - Lt. Felix Schuster Pastor Hall (1940) - Fritz Gerte The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940) - Lord Lebanon The Big Blockade (1942) - German Propaganda Officer The Night Invader (1943) - Oberleutnant The True Story of Lili Marlene (1944) - Narrator Night Boat to Dublin (1946) - Frederick Jannings A Matter of Life and Death * (1946) - Conductor 71 Take My Life (1947) - Sidney Fleming The Red Shoes * (1948) - Julian Craster Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948) - Vincent Perrin Odette (1950) - Colonel Henri Highly Dangerous (1950) - Commandant Anton Razinski Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) - Reggie Demarest Circle of Danger (1951) - Sholto Lewis The Magic Box (1951) - House