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

2024

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker as The Toymaker (voice)

2021

Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser as March Hare (archive footage) (uncredited)

2010

Alice in Wonderland as Uilleam / Dodo (voice)

2008

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight as Self
The Ties That Bind Us as Hedin (archive footage)

2005

Corpse Bride as Elder Gutknecht (voice)

2000

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend as Self

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

1996

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father as Leo Tolstoy

1995

Batman Forever as Alfred Pennyworth
Uncovered as Don Manuel
A Village Affair as Sir Ralph Unwin
The Haunting of Helen Walker as Barnaby

1994

The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
Nostradamus as Jean de Remy

1993

The Age of Innocence as Henry van der Luyden
The Hour of the Pig as Magistrate Boniface
Wittgenstein as Betrand Russell

1992

Batman Returns as Alfred Pennyworth
Dracula in the Movies as (archive footage)

1991

Sleepers as Andrei Zorin
Let Him Have It as Lord Goddard
Sleepers as Andrei Zorin
The Wanderer as Veteran Warrior
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Arthur Holmwood (archive footage)
Children of the North as Arthur Apple

1990

The Garden as Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna

1989

Batman as Alfred Pennyworth
Screen One as Mr. Maggs
Campion as Mr. Hayhoe
Blackeyes as Maurice James Kingsley
The Shell Seekers as Roy Brookner
Strapless as Douglas Brodie
The Mountain and the Molehill as Mr Maggs

1988

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Reader
The Serpent and the Rainbow as Schoonbacher

1987

Inspector Morse as Philip Ogleby
A Killing on the Exchange as Charles Makepeace
The Fourth Protocol as Sir Bernard Hemmings
Maschenka as Vater
Cariani and the Courtesans as Albani

1986

ScreenPlay as Albani
Ladies in Charge as Arthur James
The Little Vampire as Onkel Theodor
Caravaggio as Cardinal Del Monte
Hard Travelling as Peter

1985

Screen Two as Peter
Out of Africa as Lord Delamere
Lace 2
Arthur the King as Archbishop

1984

Top Secret! as Dr. Paul Flammond
Mistral's Daughter as Cardinal
A Christmas Carol as Mr. Poole
Oxford Blues as Doctor Ambrose
Memed My Hawk as Kerimoglu
The Biko Inquest as Professor Loubser

1983

The Dresser as Frank Carrington
To the Lighthouse as Mr. Ramsay
Cymbeline as Belarius
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity as Councillor Hedin

1982

Smiley's People as Mikhel
The Agatha Christie Hour as Sir George Durand
Inside the Third Reich as Dr. Rust
Witness for the Prosecution as Judge
Another Flip for Dominick as Professor Burrows

1981

Venom as David Ball

1978

Blake's 7 as Hower
Strangers as Professor Whittingham
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

Shades of Greene as Ransom
Ten from the Twenties as Peter
Galileo as Sagredo
The Man from Nowhere as Voice of the Man (voice)

1974

Fall of Eagles as Helphand
QB VII as Dr. Fletcher
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill as Mr. Yule
Shoulder to Shoulder as Dr Richard Pankhurst
Microbes and Men as Sir Almroth Wright
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill as Mr. Yule
The Gift of Friendship as Bill Wakely
Monet in London as Narrator

1973

Centre Play as Matt
The Legend of Hell House as Emeric Belasco (uncredited)
Horror Hospital as Dr. Christian Storm

1972

Crown Court as Dr. De Quincey
The Protectors as Shkoder
Colditz as Major Schaeffer
Henry VIII and His Six Wives as Norfolk
Savage Messiah as M. Gaudier
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
The Search for the Nile as David Livingstone
Crucible of Horror as Walter Eastwood

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
Journey to the Unknown as Royal
Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney
Curse of the Crimson Altar as Elder
For Amusement Only as Henry
One Night... a Train as Jeremiah

1967

ITV Playhouse as Bill Wakely
Pride and Prejudice as Mr. Bennet
They Came from Beyond Space as Dr. Arnold Grey
Berserk! as Albert Dorando

1966

Alice in Wonderland as March Hare
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker as The Toymaker

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Eliut
Thirty-Minute Theatre as Ted Warner
The Man in Room 17 as Andrei Konev
The Skull as Auctioneer
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as Eric Landor (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")
The Drinking Party as Pausanias
Game for Three Losers as Robert Hilary

1964

Theatre 625 as Clodius Pulcher
Detective as Holroyd
The Count of Monte Cristo as Gérard de Villefort
The Count of Monte Cristo as Gerard de Villefort

1963

Doctor Who as Toymaker
Black Zoo as Michael Conrad
Tamahine as Cartwright

1962

The Saint as Collin Phillips
The Phantom of the Opera as Lord Ambrose d'Arcy
Candidate for Murder as Donald Edwards

1961

The Avengers as Nutski
Drama 61-67 as Charles
Mr. Topaze as Tamise
Konga as Dr. Charles Decker
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 House in the Woods as Geoffrey Carter
The Peaceful Inn as Hatlock

1956

Armchair Theatre as The Doctor
Reach for the Sky as Flying Instructor Pearson

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Beverley Carlton
The Man in the White Suit as Michael Corland
Blackmailed as Maurice Edwards
Night Was Our Friend as Martin
No Resting Place as Alec Kyle

1950

Ha'penny Breeze as (uncredited)

1949

The Small Back Room as Capt. Dick Stuart

1948

Anna Karenina as Nicholai
Saraband for Dead Lovers as Prince Charles
Blanche Fury as Laurence Fury