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Name: Michael Gough (pronounced "goff")
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Birthdate: November 23, 1917
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Height: 5'9"

Best Known as: Alfred in the Batman movies

Urbane British character actor whose screen career has taken him from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to Dr. Terror's House of Horrors to Batman. Despite his Shakespearean training and extensive experience in the British theater, Gough can't seem to shake moviegoers' perceptions of him as the poor man's Vincent Price. The tall, gaunt actor appeared in top British films during the 1940s and 1950s, including Blanche Fury, The Man in the White Suit, and Richard III, but he also slaved in horror movies such as Horror of Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera, Black Zoo, Berserk, Horror Hospital and in a series of mad-scientist roles, Konga, The Skull, and They Came From Beyond Space. Not that he's renounced more serious endeavors; Gough has turned in expert performances in Women in Love, The Boys From Brazil, The Dresser, Out of Africa, The Age of Innocence, and Wittgenstein, to name just a few.

Filmography:
Corpse Bride (2005) (voice) Elder Gutknecht
Dame Edna Live at the Palace (2003) (TV) Alfredo
The Cherry Orchard (1999) Feers
Sleepy Hollow (1999) Notary James Hardenbrook
St. Ives (1999) Comte de Saint-Yves
What Rats Won't Do (1998) Judge
The Whisper (1998) Nikolay 1947
Batman & Robin (1997) Alfred Pennyworth
Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996) (TV) Leo Tolstoy
The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995) (TV) Barnaby
Batman Forever (1995) Alfred Pennyworth
Nostradamus (1994/I) Jean de Remy
Uncovered (1994) Don Manuel
A Village Affair (1994) Sir Ralph Unwin
The Hour of the Pig (1993) Magistrate Boniface
The Age of Innocence (1993) Henry van der Luyden
Wittgenstein (1993) Bertrand Russell
Batman Returns (1992) Alfred
Children of the North (1991) (TV) Arthur Apple
Let Him Have It (1991) Lord Goddard
"Sleepers" (1991) (mini) TV Series Andrei Zorin
The Wanderer (1991) The Old Soldier
The Garden (1990/I)
The Shell Seekers (1989) (TV) Roy Brookner
"Blackeyes" (1989) (mini) TV Series Maurice James Kingsley
Batman (1989) Alfred
"After the War" (1989) (mini) TV Series Professor Charlie Rampling
Strapless (1989) Douglas Brodie
The Mountain and the Molehill (1989) (TV) Mr. Maggs
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) Schoonbacher
Rarg (1988) (voice)
The Fourth Protocol (1987) Sir Bernard Hemmings
"A Killing On the Exchange" (1987) (mini) TV Series Charles Makepeace
Maschenka (1987) Vater
Cariani and the Courtesans (1987) (TV) Albani
"The Little Vampire" (1986) TV Series Uncle Theodore
Caravaggio (1986) Cardinal Del Monte
Out of Africa (1985) Lord Delamere
Lace II (1985) (TV)
Arthur the King (1985) (TV) Archbishop
... aka Merlin & the Sword (USA: video title)
A Christmas Carol (1984/I) (TV) Mr. Poole
Oxford Blues (1984) Doctor Ambrose
Top Secret! (1984) Dr. Paul Flammond
Memed My Hawk (1984) Kerimoglu
The Biko Inquest (1984) (TV) Prof. Loubser
"Mistral's Daughter" (1984) (mini) TV Series Cardinal
The Dresser (1983) Frank Carrington
To the Lighthouse (1983) (TV) Mr. Ramsay
"The Citadel" (1983) (mini) TV Series Sir Jenner Halliday
Cymbeline (1982) (TV) Belarius
Another Flip for Dominick (1982) (TV) Professor Burrows
Witness for the Prosecution (1982) (TV) Judge
"Smiley's People" (1982) (mini) TV Series Mikhel
Inside the Third Reich (1982) (TV) Dr. Rust
Venom (1982) David Ball
"Brideshead Revisited" (1981) (mini) TV Series Dr. Grant
Suez 1956 (1979) (TV) Sir Anthony Eden
L' Amour en question (1978) Sir Baldwin
... aka Question of Love (International: English title)
The Boys from Brazil (1978) Mr. Harrington
Satan's Slave (1976) Uncle Alexander Yorke
... aka Evil Heritage (USA)
The Trip to Jerusalem (1975) (TV)
Galileo (1975) Sagredo
"Notorious Woman" (1974) (mini) TV Series Latouche
"QB VII" (1974) (mini) TV Series Dr. Fletcher
"Shoulder to Shoulder" (1974) (mini) TV Series Dr. Richard Pankhurst
"Fall of Eagles" (1974) (mini) TV Series Helphand
The Legend of Hell House (1973) (uncredited) Emeric Belasco
Horror Hospital (1973) Dr. Christian Storm
... aka Computer Killers (USA)
Savage Messiah (1972) Monsieur Gaudier
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) Norfolk
"The Search for the Nile" (1971) (mini) TV Series David Livingstone
The Go-Between (1970) Mr. Maudsley
Trog (1970) Sam Murdock
The Corpse (1970) Walter Eastwood
... aka Crucible of Horror (USA)
Julius Caesar (1970) Metellus Cimber
A Walk with Love and Death (1969) Mad Monk
Women in Love (1969) Tom Brangwen
Un soir, un train (1968) Jeremiah
... aka One Night... a Train
Berserk! (1968) Dorando
... aka Circus of Terror
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) Elder
Play with a Tiger (1967) (TV)
Pride and Prejudice (1967) (TV) Mr. Bennet
They Came From Beyond Space (1967) Master of the Moon
Alice in Wonderland (1966/I) (TV) March Hare
Days to Come (1966) (TV) Eliut
The Girl Who Loved Robots (1965) (TV) Doctor
The Skull (1965) Auctioner
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) Eric Landor
Count of Monte Cristo (1964) (TV) DeVillefort
Game for Three Losers (1964) Robert Hilary
Tamahine (1963) Cartwright
Black Zoo (1963) Michael Conrad
What a Carve Up (1962) Fisk
... aka No Place Like Homicide! (USA)
The Phantom of the Opera (1962) Lord Ambrose d'Arcy
Konga (1961) Dr. Charles Decker
Candidate for Murder (1961) Donald Edwards
Mr. Topaze (1961) Tamise
... aka I Like Money (USA)
The Poisoned Earth (1961) (TV) Rev. Claude Bell
"Dancers in Mourning" (1959) TV Series Squire Mercer
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) Edmond Bancroft
... aka Crime in the Museum of Horrors (USA)
The House in the Woods (1959) Geoffrey Carter
Julius Caesar (1959) (TV) Cassius
The Horse's Mouth (1958) Abel (sculptor)
Dracula (1958) Arthur Holmwood
Model for Murder (1958) Kingsley Beauchamp
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) Andoni Zoidakis
... aka Night Ambush (USA)
Reach for the Sky (1956) Flying Instructor Pearson
Richard III (1955) Dighton, 1st murderer
The Last Reunion (1955) Hugo
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1954) Duke of Montrose
The Sword and the Rose (1953) Duke of Buckingham
... aka When Knighthood Was in Flower (UK) (USA: TV title)
Twice Upon a Time (1953) Mr. Lloyd
The Man in the White Suit (1951) Michael Corland, Textile Mill Owner
Night Was Our Friend (1951) Martin Raynor
Blackmailed (1950) Maurice Edwards
Ha'penny Breeze (1950) (uncredited)
No Resting Place (1950) Alec Kyle
The Small Back Room (1949) Capt. Dick Stuart
... aka Hour of Glory (USA)
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Prince Charles
... aka Saraband (USA)
Anna Karenina (1948) Nicholai
... aka Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (UK: complete title)
Blanche Fury (1947) Laurence Fury

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