Michael Gough
Born: 1916-11-23 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Died: 2011-03-17
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
2024
- Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker as The Toymaker (voice)
2021
- Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser as March Hare (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012
- Gravity Falls as Wax Groucho Marx (voice)
2010
- Alice in Wonderland as Uilleam / Dodo (voice)
2008
- The Ties That Bind Us as Hedin (archive footage)
- Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight as Self
2005
- Ben 10 as Lt. Steel (voice)
- Corpse Bride as Elder Gutknecht (voice)
2004
- Biography: Val Kilmer as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Duck Dodgers as The Professor / Pilot (voice)
2000
- Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend as Self
- Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Fun as Gopher (voice)
1999
- Sleepy Hollow as Notary Hardenbrook
- The Cherry Orchard as Feers
- The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka as Doctor
1998
- What Rats Won't Do as Justice Tomlin
- St. Ives as Comte de Saint-Yves
1997
- Batman & Robin as Alfred Pennyworth
- Voice B Gone as The Voice, Johnny, Dog (voice)
1996
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father as Leo Tolstoy
- Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Pooh as Gopher (voice)
1995
- Batman Forever as Alfred Pennyworth
- Uncovered as Don Manuel
- A Village Affair as Sir Ralph Unwin
- The Haunting of Helen Walker as Barnaby
- Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh as Gopher (voice)
1994
- Nostradamus as Jean de Remy
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- Winnie the Pooh Playtime: Cowboy Pooh as Gopher (voice)
1993
- Wittgenstein as Betrand Russell
- The Age of Innocence as Henry van der Luyden
- The Hour of the Pig as Magistrate Boniface
1992
- Batman Returns as Alfred Pennyworth
- Beauty and the Beast as (voice)
1991
- The Wanderer as Veteran Warrior
- Let Him Have It as Lord Goddard
- Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Arthur Holmwood (archive footage)
- Sleepers as Andrei Zorin
- Children of the North as Arthur Apple
- Sleepers as Andrei Zorin
1990
- The Garden as Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna
1989
- Batman as Alfred Pennyworth
- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland as Teacher #2 (voice)
- Strapless as Douglas Brodie
- The Mountain and the Molehill as Mr Maggs
- Campion as Mr. Hayhoe
- The Shell Seekers as Roy Brookner
- Blackeyes as Maurice James Kingsley
1988
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Reader
- The Serpent and the Rainbow as Schoonbacher
1987
- Inspector Morse as Philip Ogleby
- Maschenka as Vater
- The Fourth Protocol as Sir Bernard Hemmings
- Cariani and the Courtesans as Albani
- A Killing on the Exchange
1986
- Caravaggio as Cardinal Del Monte
- Hard Travelling as Peter
- The Little Vampire as Onkel Theodor
- Ladies in Charge
1985
- Out of Africa as Lord Delamere
- Lace 2
- Arthur the King as Archbishop
1984
- A Christmas Carol as Mr. Poole
- Oxford Blues as Doctor Ambrose
- Top Secret! as Dr. Paul Flammond
- The Biko Inquest as Professor Loubser
- Mistral's Daughter as Cardinal
- Memed My Hawk as Kerimoglu
1983
- The Dresser as Frank Carrington
- Cymbeline as Belarius
- To the Lighthouse as Mr. Ramsay
- Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity as Councillor Hedin
1982
- The Agatha Christie Hour
- Witness for the Prosecution as Judge
- Smiley's People as Mikhel
- Another Flip for Dominick as Professor Burrows
- Inside the Third Reich as Dr. Rust
1981
- Venom as David Ball
1978
- Blake's 7 as Hower
- The Boys from Brazil as Mr. Harrington
- Question of Love as Sir Baldwin
1976
- Satan's Slave as Alexander Yorke
- Sea-Change as Father
1975
- Galileo as Sagredo
- The Man from Nowhere as Voice of the Man (voice)
1974
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill as Mr. Yule
- The Gift of Friendship as Bill Wakely
- QB VII as Dr. Fletcher
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill as Mr. Yule
- Notorious Woman as Henri de Latouche
- Shoulder to Shoulder as Dr Richard Pankhurst
- Microbes and Men as Sir Almroth Wright
- Monet in London as Narrator
1973
- Horror Hospital as Dr. Christian Storm
- The Legend of Hell House as Emeric Belasco (uncredited)
1972
- Crown Court as Dr. De Quincey
- Savage Messiah as M. Gaudier
- The Protectors as Shkoder
- Colditz as Major Schaeffer
- Henry VIII and His Six Wives as Norfolk
- The Man Who Came to Dinner as Beverly Carlton
- Vincent the Dutchman as Vincent Van Gogh
1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Governor
- The Go-Between as Mr Maudsley
- Crucible of Horror as Walter Eastwood
- The Search for the Nile as David Livingstone
1970
- Play for Today as Professor Burrows
- Julius Caesar as Metellus Cimber
- Trog as Sam Murdock
1969
- The Main Chance as Sir George Andrews
- Women in Love as Mr. Brangwen
- A Walk with Love and Death as Mad Monk
1968
- The Champions as Major Joss
- Curse of the Crimson Altar as Elder
- Journey to the Unknown
- One Night... a Train as Jeremiah
1967
- They Came from Beyond Space as Dr. Arnold Grey
- Berserk! as Albert Dorando
- Pride and Prejudice as Mr. Bennet
1966
- Alice in Wonderland as March Hare
- Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker as The Toymaker
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Eliut
- The Skull as Auctioneer
- Game for Three Losers as Robert Hilary
- The Man in Room 17 as Andrei Konev
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as Eric Landor (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")
- The Drinking Party as Pausanias
1964
- Theatre 625 as Clodius Pulcher
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Gerard de Villefort
- Detective
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Gérard de Villefort
1963
- Doctor Who as Toymaker
- Black Zoo as Michael Conrad
- Tamahine as Cartwright
1962
- The Saint as Collin Phillips
- Candidate for Murder as Donald Edwards
- The Phantom of the Opera as Lord Ambrose d'Arcy
1961
- The Avengers as Nutski
- Konga as Dr. Charles Decker
- Mr. Topaze as Tamise
- What a Carve Up! as Fisk - the Butler
1959
- Horrors of the Black Museum as Edmond Bancroft
- Model for Murder as Kingsley Beauchamp
1958
- Dracula as Arthur Holmwood
- The Horse's Mouth as Abel
1957
- Ill Met by Moonlight as Andoni Zoidakis
- The Peaceful Inn as Hatlock
- The House in the Woods as Geoffrey Carter
1956
- Reach for the Sky as Flying Instructor Pearson
1955
- Richard III as Dighton
- The Last Reunion
1954
1953
- Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue as Duke of Montrose
- The Sword and the Rose as Duke of Buckingham
- Twice Upon a Time as Mr. Lloyd
1951
- Blackmailed as Maurice Edwards
- The Man in the White Suit as Michael Corland
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Beverley Carlton
- No Resting Place as Alec Kyle
- Night Was Our Friend as Martin
1950
- Ha'penny Breeze as (uncredited)
1949
- The Small Back Room as Capt. Dick Stuart
1948
- Blanche Fury as Laurence Fury
- Anna Karenina as Nicholai
- Saraband for Dead Lovers as Prince Charles