Michael Gough

Actor Nov 23 (died age 94) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1948–2025 (77 year career)

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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

Film

Corpse Bride

Elder Gutknecht (voice)

Film

Batman

Alfred Pennyworth

Film

Sleepy Hollow

Notary Hardenbrook

Film

Alice in Wonderland

Uilleam / Dodo (voice)

Film

Batman Returns

Alfred Pennyworth

Film

Out of Africa

Lord Delamere

Film

Top Secret!

Dr. Paul Flammond

Film

The Age of Innocence

Henry van der Luyden

Filmography

Acting (166)

Movies (119)

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

2025

as Self - (archive footage)

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

2024

as The Toymaker (voice)

8.0

Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser

2021

as March Hare (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alice in Wonderland

2010

as Uilleam / Dodo (voice)

6.6

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

2008

as Self

The Ties That Bind Us

2008

as Hedin (archive footage)

Corpse Bride

2005

as Elder Gutknecht (voice)

7.6

Biography: Val Kilmer

2004

as Self (archive footage)

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

2000

as Self

7.1

Sleepy Hollow

1999

as Notary Hardenbrook

7.2

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

1999

as Doctor

The Cherry Orchard

1999

as Feers

4.3

St. Ives

1998

as Comte de Saint-Yves

What Rats Won't Do

as Justice Tomlin

Batman & Robin

as Alfred Pennyworth

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father

1996

as Leo Tolstoy

6.1

Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Pooh

as Gopher (voice)

Batman Forever

as Alfred Pennyworth

Uncovered

as Don Manuel

A Village Affair

as Sir Ralph Unwin

The Haunting of Helen Walker

as Barnaby

Nostradamus

as Jean de Remy

The Age of Innocence

as Henry van der Luyden

Wittgenstein

as Betrand Russell

The Hour of the Pig

as Magistrate Boniface

Batman Returns

as Alfred Pennyworth

Beauty and the Beast

as (voice)

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991

as Arthur Holmwood (archive footage)

10.0

The Wanderer

1991

as Veteran Warrior

Children of the North

as Arthur Apple

Let Him Have It

as Lord Goddard

Sleepers

as Andrei Zorin

The Garden

1990

as Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna

Batman

as Alfred Pennyworth

Strapless

as Douglas Brodie

The Shell Seekers

as Roy Brookner

The Mountain and the Molehill

1989

as Mr Maggs

The Serpent and the Rainbow

1988

as Schoonbacher

6.4

The Fourth Protocol

1987

as Sir Bernard Hemmings

6.3

Cariani and the Courtesans

1987

as Albani

Maschenka

1987

as Vater

Caravaggio

1986

as Cardinal Del Monte

6.1

Hard Travelling

1986

as Peter

Out of Africa

as Lord Delamere

Lace 2

Arthur the King

as Archbishop

Oxford Blues

as Doctor Ambrose

Top Secret!

as Dr. Paul Flammond

A Christmas Carol

as Mr. Poole

Memed My Hawk

as Kerimoglu

The Biko Inquest

as Professor Loubser

The Dresser

as Frank Carrington

Cymbeline

as Belarius

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity

as Councillor Hedin

To the Lighthouse

as Mr. Ramsay

Another Flip for Dominick

1982

as Professor Burrows

1.0

Witness for the Prosecution

as Judge

Venom

as David Ball

The Boys from Brazil

as Mr. Harrington

Question of Love

as Sir Baldwin

Satan's Slave

as Alexander Yorke

Sea-Change

as Father

Galileo

1975

as Sagredo

5.9

The Man from Nowhere

1975

as Voice of the Man (voice)

6.2

The Gift of Friendship

1974

as Bill Wakely

Monet in London

1974

as Narrator

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

1974

as Mr. Yule

8.0

Horror Hospital

1973

as Dr. Christian Storm

5.1

The Legend of Hell House

1973

as Emeric Belasco (uncredited)

6.6

Savage Messiah

1972

as M. Gaudier

6.1

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1972

as Beverly Carlton

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

as Norfolk

Vincent the Dutchman

as Vincent Van Gogh

Crucible of Horror

as Walter Eastwood

The Go-Between

as Mr Maudsley

Julius Caesar

as Metellus Cimber

Trog

as Sam Murdock

Women in Love

as Mr. Brangwen

A Walk with Love and Death

as Mad Monk

One Night... a Train

as Jeremiah

Curse of the Crimson Altar

as Elder

Berserk!

as Albert Dorando

They Came from Beyond Space

1967

as Dr. Arnold Grey

5.1

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

as The Toymaker

Alice in Wonderland

as March Hare

Game for Three Losers

1965

as Robert Hilary

Dr Terror's House of Horrors

1965

as Eric Landor (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")

The Skull

as Auctioneer

The Drinking Party

as Pausanias

The Count of Monte Cristo

1964

as Gerard de Villefort

Tamahine

as Cartwright

Black Zoo

as Michael Conrad

The Phantom of the Opera

1962

as Lord Ambrose d'Arcy

6.4

Candidate for Murder

1962

as Donald Edwards

What a Carve Up!

as Fisk - the Butler

Mr. Topaze

as Tamise

Konga

as Dr. Charles Decker

4.3

Model for Murder

1959

as Kingsley Beauchamp

6.6

Horrors of the Black Museum

as Edmond Bancroft

Dracula

as Arthur Holmwood

The Horse's Mouth

as Abel

The House in the Woods

1957

as Geoffrey Carter

6.0

The Peaceful Inn

1957

as Hatlock

Ill Met by Moonlight

1957

as Andoni Zoidakis

6.2

Reach for the Sky

1956

as Flying Instructor Pearson

Richard III

as Dighton

The Last Reunion

The Sword and the Rose

1953

as Duke of Buckingham

6.3

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

as Duke of Montrose

Twice Upon a Time

as Mr. Lloyd

No Resting Place

as Alec Kyle

Blackmailed

as Maurice Edwards

The Man in the White Suit

as Michael Corland

Night Was Our Friend

as Martin

Ha'penny Breeze

as (uncredited)

The Small Back Room

as Capt. Dick Stuart

Anna Karenina

as Nicholai

Blanche Fury

as Laurence Fury

Saraband for Dead Lovers

1948

as Prince Charles

6.4

Television (47)

Gravity Falls

2012

as Wax Groucho Marx (voice)

Ben 10

as Lt. Steel (voice)

Duck Dodgers

as The Professor / Pilot (voice)

7.4

The World of Hammer

1994

as Self (archive footage)

Sleepers

as Andrei Zorin

Campion

as Mr. Hayhoe

Blackeyes

as Maurice James Kingsley

5.5

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

1988

as Reader

Inspector Morse

1987

as Philip Ogleby

7.9

A Killing on the Exchange

The Little Vampire

as Onkel Theodor

Ladies in Charge

Mistral's Daughter

as Cardinal

Smiley's People

as Mikhel

The Agatha Christie Hour

1982

6.7

Inside the Third Reich

1982

as Dr. Rust

Blake's 7

1978

as Hower

7.3

Strangers

1978

as Professor Whittingham

Fall of Eagles

as Helphand

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

5.0

Microbes and Men

1974

as Sir Almroth Wright

Centre Play

as Matt

Crown Court

as Dr. De Quincey

The Protectors

as Shkoder

Colditz

as Major Schaeffer

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

1971

as Governor

7.4

The Search for the Nile

as David Livingstone

Play for Today

as Professor Burrows

The Main Chance

as Sir George Andrews

7.7

The Champions

1968

as Major Joss

6.2

Journey to the Unknown

Pride and Prejudice

as Mr. Bennet

BBC Play of the Month

as Eliut

The Man in Room 17

as Andrei Konev

Theatre 625

as Clodius Pulcher

Detective

The Count of Monte Cristo

1964

as Gérard de Villefort

Doctor Who

as The Toymaker

The Saint

as Collin Phillips

The Avengers

as Nutski

Drama 61-67

as Charles

Armchair Theatre

as The Doctor

Sherlock Holmes

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Beverley Carlton

8.6