Michael Gough

Known for: Acting
Born: November 23, 1916, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Died: March 17, 2011
Movies: 117

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.6

Alice in Wonderland

2010

7.6

Corpse Bride

2005

7.2

Batman

1989

7.2

Sleepy Hollow

1999

7.0

Batman Returns

1992

5.5

Batman Forever

1995

4.4

Batman & Robin

1997

7.1

Out of Africa

1985

7.1

Top Secret!

1984

7.0

The Age of Innocence

1993

Filmography

2026	Off the Leash	Self
2024	Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker	The Toymaker (voice)
2021	Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser	March Hare (archive footage) (uncredited)
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)
2000	Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend	Self
1999	Sleepy Hollow	Notary Hardenbrook
1999	The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka	Doctor
1999	The Cherry Orchard	Feers
1998	What Rats Won't Do	Justice Tomlin
1998	St. Ives	Comte de Saint-Yves
1997	Batman & Robin	Alfred Pennyworth
1996	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father	Leo Tolstoy
1995	The Haunting of Helen Walker	Barnaby
1995	Batman Forever	Alfred Pennyworth
1995	A Village Affair	Sir Ralph Unwin
1995	Uncovered	Don Manuel
1994	Nostradamus	Jean de Remy
1993	The Hour of the Pig	Magistrate Boniface
1993	The Age of Innocence	Henry van der Luyden
1993	Wittgenstein	Betrand Russell
1992	Batman Returns	Alfred
1992	Dracula in the Movies	(archive footage)
1991	Children of the North	Arthur Apple
1991	Let Him Have It	Lord Goddard
1991	Sleepers	Andrei Zorin
1991	Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook	Arthur Holmwood (archive footage)
1991	The Wanderer	Veteran Warrior
1990	The Garden	Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna
1989	The Shell Seekers	Roy Brookner
1989	The Mountain and the Molehill	Mr Maggs
1989	Batman	Alfred
1989	Strapless	Douglas Brodie
1988	The Serpent and the Rainbow	Schoonbacher
1987	Cariani and the Courtesans	Albani
1987	The Fourth Protocol	Sir Bernard Hemmings
1987	Maschenka	Vater
1986	Caravaggio	Cardinal Del Monte
1986	Hard Travelling	Peter
1985	Out of Africa	Lord Delamere
1985	Lace 2
1985	Arthur the King	Archbishop
1984	The Biko Inquest	Professor Loubser
1984	A Christmas Carol	Mr. Poole
1984	Oxford Blues	Doctor Ambrose
1984	Top Secret!	Dr. Paul Flammond
1984	Memed My Hawk	Kerimoglu
1983	The Dresser	Frank Carrington
1983	Cymbeline	Belarius
1983	To the Lighthouse	Mr. Ramsay
1983	Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity	Councillor Hedin
1982	Another Flip for Dominick	Professor Burrows
1982	Witness for the Prosecution	Judge
1981	Venom	David Ball
1978	Question of Love	Sir Baldwin
1978	The Boys from Brazil	Mr. Harrington
1976	Sea-Change	Father
1976	Satan's Slave	Alexander Yorke
1975	Galileo	Sagredo
1975	The Man from Nowhere	Voice of the Man (voice)
1974	Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill	Mr. Yule
1974	The Gift of Friendship	Bill Wakely
1974	Monet in London	Narrator
1973	The Legend of Hell House	Emeric Belasco (uncredited)
1973	Horror Hospital	Dr. Christian Storm
1972	The Man Who Came to Dinner	Beverly Carlton
1972	Vincent the Dutchman	Vincent Van Gogh
1972	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Norfolk
1972	Savage Messiah	M. Gaudier
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	The Gentle Art of Making Enemies	Ruskin
1968	One Night... a Train	Jeremiah
1967	Berserk!	Albert Dorando
1967	They Came from Beyond Space	Dr. Arnold Grey
1966	Alice in Wonderland	March Hare
1966	Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker	The Toymaker
1965	The Drinking Party	Pausanias
1965	The Skull	Auctioneer
1965	Game for Three Losers	Robert Hilary
1965	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors	Eric Landor (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")
1963	Tamahine	Cartwright
1963	Black Zoo	Michael Conrad
1962	The Phantom of the Opera	Lord Ambrose d'Arcy
1962	Candidate for Murder	Donald Edwards
1961	What a Carve Up!	Fisk - the Butler
1961	Mr. Topaze	Tamise
1961	Konga	Dr. Charles Decker
1959	Horrors of the Black Museum	Edmond Bancroft
1959	Model for Murder	Kingsley Beauchamp
1958	The Horse's Mouth	Abel
1958	Dracula	Arthur Holmwood
1957	The Peaceful Inn	Hatlock
1957	The House in the Woods	Geoffrey Carter
1957	Ill Met by Moonlight	Andoni Zoidakis
1956	Reach for the Sky	Flying Instructor Pearson
1955	Richard III	Dighton
1955	The Last Reunion
1953	Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue	Duke of Montrose
1953	The Sword and the Rose	Duke of Buckingham
1953	Twice Upon a Time	Mr. Lloyd
1951	Night Was Our Friend	Martin
1951	The Man in the White Suit	Michael Corland
1951	Blackmailed	Maurice Edwards
1951	No Resting Place	Alec Kyle
1950	Ha'penny Breeze	(uncredited)
1949	The Small Back Room	Capt. Dick Stuart
1948	Saraband for Dead Lovers	Prince Charles
1948	Blanche Fury	Lawrence Fury
1948	Anna Karenina	Nicholai

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