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
- St. Ives as Comte de Saint-Yves
- What Rats Won't Do as Justice Tomlin
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
1991
- Sleepers as Andrei Zorin
- Let Him Have It as Lord Goddard
- Sleepers as Andrei Zorin
- Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Arthur Holmwood (archive footage)
- Children of the North as Arthur Apple
- The Wanderer as Veteran Warrior
1990
- The Garden as Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna
1989
- Batman as Alfred Pennyworth
- Campion as Mr. Hayhoe
- Blackeyes as Maurice James Kingsley
- Strapless as Douglas Brodie
- The Shell Seekers as Roy Brookner
- 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
- The Fourth Protocol as Sir Bernard Hemmings
- A Killing on the Exchange as Charles Makepeace
- Maschenka as Vater
- Cariani and the Courtesans as Albani
1986
- The Little Vampire as Onkel Theodor
- Ladies in Charge as Arthur James
- Caravaggio as Cardinal Del Monte
- Hard Travelling as Peter
1985
- Out of Africa as Lord Delamere
- Arthur the King as Archbishop
- Lace 2
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
- Cymbeline as Belarius
- To the Lighthouse as Mr. Ramsay
- Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity as Councillor Hedin
1982
- The Agatha Christie Hour as Sir George Durand
- Smiley's People as Mikhel
- 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
- Galileo as Sagredo
- The Man from Nowhere as Voice of the Man (voice)
1974
- Fall of Eagles as Helphand
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill as Mr. Yule
- QB VII as Dr. Fletcher
- Microbes and Men as Sir Almroth Wright
- Shoulder to Shoulder as Dr Richard Pankhurst
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill as Mr. Yule
- Monet in London as Narrator
- The Gift of Friendship as Bill Wakely
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
- Curse of the Crimson Altar as Elder
- One Night... a Train as Jeremiah
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Bill Wakely
- Pride and Prejudice as Mr. Bennet
- Berserk! as Albert Dorando
- They Came from Beyond Space as Dr. Arnold Grey
1966
- Alice in Wonderland as March Hare
- Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker as The Toymaker
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Eliut
- 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
- Konga as Dr. Charles Decker
- Mr. Topaze as Tamise
- What a Carve Up! as Fisk - the Butler
1959
- Model for Murder as Kingsley Beauchamp
- Horrors of the Black Museum as Edmond Bancroft
1958
- Dracula as Arthur Holmwood
- The Horse's Mouth as Abel
1957
- The House in the Woods as Geoffrey Carter
- Ill Met by Moonlight as Andoni Zoidakis
- The Peaceful Inn as Hatlock
1956
- Armchair Theatre as The Doctor
- Reach for the Sky as Flying Instructor Pearson
1955
- Richard III as Dighton
- The Last Reunion
1954
1953
- The Sword and the Rose as Duke of Buckingham
- Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue as Duke of Montrose
- Twice Upon a Time as Mr. Lloyd
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Beverley Carlton
- The Man in the White Suit as Michael Corland
- No Resting Place as Alec Kyle
- Blackmailed as Maurice Edwards
- Night Was Our Friend as Martin
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