Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 23, 1916
Place of Birth:
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Michael Gough
Biography
Francis Michael Gough (23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances, known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958 and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four films of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher Batman series.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker | The Toymaker (voice) |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Uilleam / Dodo (voice) |
| 2008 | Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight | Self |
| 2008 | The Ties That Bind Us | Hedin (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Corpse Bride | Elder Gutknecht (voice) |
| 2004 | Biography: Val Kilmer | Self (archive footage) |
| 2000 | Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Pooh | Gopher (voice) |
| 2000 | Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Fun | Gopher (voice) |
| 2000 | Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend | Self |
| 1999 | Sleepy Hollow | Notary Hardenbrook |
| 1999 | Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh | Gopher (voice) |
| 1999 | The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka | Doctor |
| 1999 | The Cherry Orchard | Feers |
| 1998 | St. Ives | Comte de Saint-Yves |
| 1998 | What Rats Won't Do | Justice Tomlin |
| 1997 | Batman & Robin | Alfred Pennyworth |
| 1997 | Voice B Gone | The Voice, Johnny, Dog (voice) |
| 1996 | Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh | Gopher (voice) |
| 1996 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father | Leo Tolstoy |
| 1995 | Batman Forever | Alfred Pennyworth |
| 1995 | A Village Affair | Sir Ralph Unwin |
| 1995 | The Haunting of Helen Walker | Barnaby |
| 1994 | Uncovered | Don Manuel |
| 1994 | Winnie the Pooh Playtime: Cowboy Pooh | Gopher (voice) |
| 1994 | Nostradamus | Jean de Remy |
| 1993 | The Age of Innocence | Henry van der Luyden |
| 1993 | The Hour of the Pig | Magistrate Boniface |
| 1993 | Wittgenstein | Betrand Russell |
| 1992 | Batman Returns | Alfred Pennyworth |
| 1992 | Beauty and the Beast | (voice) |
| 1991 | Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook | Arthur Holmwood (archive footage) |
| 1991 | Sleepers | Andrei Zorin |
| 1991 | Let Him Have It | Lord Goddard |
| 1991 | The Wanderer | Veteran Warrior |
| 1991 | Children of the North | Arthur Apple |
| 1990 | The Garden | Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna |
| 1989 | Batman | Alfred Pennyworth |
| 1989 | Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland | Teacher #2 (voice) |
| 1989 | Strapless | Douglas Brodie |
| 1989 | The Shell Seekers | Roy Brookner |
| 1989 | The Mountain and the Molehill | Mr Maggs |
| 1988 | The Serpent and the Rainbow | Schoonbacher |
| 1987 | The Fourth Protocol | Sir Bernard Hemmings |
| 1987 | Cariani and the Courtesans | Albani |
| 1987 | Maschenka | Vater |
| 1986 | Caravaggio | Cardinal Del Monte |
| 1986 | Hard Travelling | Peter |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Lord Delamere |
| 1985 | Arthur the King | Archbishop |
| 1985 | Lace 2 | |
| 1984 | Top Secret! | Dr. Paul Flammond |
| 1984 | Oxford Blues | Doctor Ambrose |
| 1984 | A Christmas Carol | Mr. Poole |
| 1984 | Memed My Hawk | Kerimoglu |
| 1984 | The Biko Inquest | Professor Loubser |
| 1983 | The Dresser | Frank Carrington |
| 1983 | To the Lighthouse | Mr. Ramsay |
| 1983 | Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity | Councillor Hedin |
| 1982 | Witness for the Prosecution | Judge |
| 1982 | Another Flip for Dominick | Professor Burrows |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Dr. Rust |
| 1982 | Cymbeline | Belarius |
| 1981 | Venom | David Ball |
| 1978 | The Boys from Brazil | Mr. Harrington |
| 1978 | Question of Love | Sir Baldwin |
| 1976 | Satan's Slave | Alexander Yorke |
| 1976 | Sea-Change | Father |
| 1975 | Galileo | Sagredo |
| 1975 | The Man from Nowhere | Voice of the Man (voice) |
| 1974 | Monet in London | Narrator |
| 1974 | The Gift of Friendship | Bill Wakely |
| 1974 | Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Mr. Yule |
| 1973 | Horror Hospital | Dr. Christian Storm |
| 1973 | The Legend of Hell House | Emeric Belasco (uncredited) |
| 1972 | Henry VIII and His Six Wives | Norfolk |
| 1972 | Savage Messiah | M. Gaudier |
| 1972 | Vincent the Dutchman | Vincent Van Gogh |
| 1971 | Crucible of Horror | Walter Eastwood |
| 1971 | The Go-Between | Mr Maudsley |
| 1970 | Trog | Sam Murdock |
| 1970 | Julius Caesar | Metellus Cimber |
| 1969 | A Walk with Love and Death | Mad Monk |
| 1969 | Women in Love | Mr. Brangwen |
| 1968 | Curse of the Crimson Altar | Elder |
| 1968 | One Night... a Train | Jeremiah |
| 1967 | They Came from Beyond Space | Dr. Arnold Grey |
| 1967 | Berserk! | Albert Dorando |
| 1966 | Alice in Wonderland | March Hare |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker | The Toymaker |
| 1965 | Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | Eric Landor (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand") |
| 1965 | The Skull | Auctioneer |
| 1965 | Game for Three Losers | Robert Hilary |
| 1965 | The Drinking Party | Pausanias |
| 1964 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Gerard de Villefort |
| 1963 | Black Zoo | Michael Conrad |
| 1963 | Tamahine | Cartwright |
| 1962 | The Phantom of the Opera | Lord Ambrose d'Arcy |
| 1962 | Candidate for Murder | |
| 1961 | Konga | Dr. Charles Decker |
| 1961 | Mr. Topaze | Tamise |
| 1961 | What a Carve Up! | Fisk - the Butler |
| 1959 | Horrors of the Black Museum | Edmond Bancroft |
| 1959 | Model for Murder | Kingsley Beauchamp |
| 1958 | Dracula | Arthur Holmwood |
| 1958 | The Horse's Mouth | Abel |
| 1957 | The Peaceful Inn | Hatlock |
| 1957 | Ill Met by Moonlight | Andoni Zoidakis |
| 1957 | The House in the Woods | Geoffrey Carter |
| 1956 | Reach for the Sky | Flying Instructor Pearson |
| 1955 | The Last Reunion | |
| 1955 | Richard III | Dighton |
| 1953 | The Sword and the Rose | Duke of Buckingham |
| 1953 | Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue | Duke of Montrose |
| 1953 | Twice Upon a Time | Mr. Lloyd |
| 1951 | The Man in the White Suit | Michael Corland |
| 1951 | Blackmailed | Maurice Edwards |
| 1951 | Night Was Our Friend | Martin |
| 1951 | No Resting Place | Alec Kyle |
| 1950 | Ha'penny Breeze | (uncredited) |
| 1949 | The Small Back Room | Capt. Dick Stuart |
| 1948 | Anna Karenina | Nicholai |
| 1948 | Saraband for Dead Lovers | Prince Charles |
| 1948 | Blanche Fury | Laurence Fury |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Gravity Falls | Wax Groucho Marx (voice) |
| 2005 | Ben 10 | Lt. Steel (voice) |
| 2003 | Duck Dodgers | The Professor / Pilot (voice) |
| 1991 | Sleepers | Andrei Zorin |
| 1989 | Campion | Mr. Hayhoe |
| 1989 | Blackeyes | Maurice James Kingsley |
| 1988 | The Modern World: Ten Great Writers | Reader |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Philip Ogleby |
| 1987 | A Killing on the Exchange | |
| 1986 | Ladies in Charge | |
| 1986 | The Little Vampire | Onkel Theodor |
| 1984 | Mistral's Daughter | Cardinal |
| 1982 | The Agatha Christie Hour | |
| 1982 | Smiley's People | |
| 1982 | Smiley's People | Mikhel |
| 1981 | Brideshead Revisited | Doctor Grant |
| 1978 | Blake's 7 | Hower |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Belarius |
| 1974 | QB VII | Dr. Fletcher |
| 1974 | Microbes and Men | Sir Almroth Wright |
| 1974 | Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Mr. Yule |
| 1974 | Notorious Woman | Henri de Latouche |
| 1974 | Shoulder to Shoulder | Dr Richard Pankhurst |
| 1973 | Moonbase 3 | |
| 1972 | Colditz | Major Schaeffer |
| 1972 | The Protectors | Shkoder |
| 1972 | Crown Court | Dr. De Quincey |
| 1971 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Governor |
| 1971 | The Search for the Nile | David Livingstone |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Professor Burrows |
| 1969 | The Main Chance | Sir George Andrews |
| 1968 | The Champions | Major Joss |
| 1968 | Journey to the Unknown | |
| 1967 | Pride and Prejudice | Mr. Bennet |
| 1965 | The Man In Room 17 | Andrei Konev |
| 1964 | Detective | |
| 1964 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Gérard de Villefort |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | Toymaker |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | Councillor Hedin |
| 1962 | The Saint | Collin Phillips |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Nutski |
| 1954 | Sherlock Holmes | |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Beverley Carlton |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Judge |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Roy Brookner |