Actor Marius Goring, a longtime staple of the London stage who appeared in the film “The Red Shoes” and played Nazis in numerous other films, died Sept. 30 of cancer in London. He was 86.

Goring achieved success in the 1960s and ’70s playing a forensic scientist in the BBC series “The Expert.” His cinematic peak may have come in 1948 in “The Red Shoes,” still regarded as one of the best dance films ever made.

In the mid-1930s, he played foils and second leads in London’s West End theaters, earning critical acclaim in “Twelfth Night” in 1937. During World War II, he made British propaganda broadcasts to Germany and provided the voice of Hitler in an anti-Nazi radio serial, “The Shadow of the Swastika.”

He also appeared in many World War II movies, including, “U-Boat 29,” “Pastor Hall,” and “Circle of Danger.”

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In 1954, he was included in the cast of “The Barefoot Contessa,” with Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Rosanno Brazzi and Edmund O’Brien.

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