His daughter Polly predeceased him.One of Gough's funniest West End roles was as Baron von Epp in the 1983 revival of Osborne's A Patriot for Me. Alfred remained his loyal confidant when he began vigilantism as the Batman. Gough continued to work with Burton, in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and, as a voice artist, in The Corpse Bride (2005).Gough had made it known he was slightly miffed that many high-profile thespians were taking up the minor roles in Olivier's Richard III (1955), leaving little room for actors like himself. The same performance prompted Caryl Brahms to perceive Gough's "extraordinary capacity for keeping speech straining at the leash; for pent-up emotion; and for the cut and parry and flash of word-play".He was memorable on television as prime minister Sir Anthony Eden in Ian Curteis's Suez 1956 (1979), in the cameo role of Dr Grant in Brideshead Revisited (1981), in a splendid turn as Mikhel in Smiley's People (1982), and, most strikingly, as a dishevelled, bewhiskered, flatulent writer in Dennis Potter's Blackeyes (1989).Unafraid to go out on a limb – most notably as King Lear (1974) at the Belgrade theatre, Coventry, or as the old retainer Firs to Judi Dench's Madame Ranevskaya in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1990) at the Aldwych – Gough breathed humour and humanity into all his work.
Showing all 24 items Jump to: Photos (9) Quotes (15) Photos . Tony Award-winning English actor Michael Gough, best known for playing the butler Alfred Pennyworth in the first four Batman (1989, 1992, 1995 & 1997) movies and for playing the arch-criminal Dr. Clement Armstrong in The Avengers (1961) episode "The Cybernauts", was an accomplished performer on both stage and screen. He developed a strong line in science-fiction and horror roles.Although Gough's mannered elegance was hardly suited to the social misfits erupting in the new wave of British drama or the theatre of the absurd, he did not ignore either movement. He received a late-night phone call, replete with expletives, from an apparently outraged Olivier, accusing him of "stirring the shit".
"Tim Burton was a huge fan of Mick from the Hammer Horror films of the 60s, so he tried very hard to include him in everything he did," said Gough's agent.He was also known to Doctor Who fans after appearing in a 1965 episode entitled The Celestial Toymaker.Born in Kuala Lumpur, Gough started his career in the 1946 television movie Androcles and the Lion. Tony Award-winning English actor Michael Gough, best known for playing the butler Alfred Pennyworth in the first four Batman (1989, 1992, 1995 & 1997) movies and for playing the arch-criminal Dr. Clement Armstrong in The Avengers (1961) episode "The Cybernauts", was an accomplished performer on both stage and screen. Michael Gough, (born Nov. 23, 1916, Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States [now Malaysia]—died March 17, 2011, England), British character actor who was known for his roles in horror films as well as for his portrayal of Batman’s butler Alfred Pennyworth in four Batman films. He came to be in great demand in the West End: in Sartre's Crime Passionel (1948), he dithered as a political assassin; later that year, in Daphne du Maurier's September Tide, he set about the seduction of his mother-in-law (Gertrude Lawrence) with a fascinating delicacy when it came to removing her glasses. He took over from Alan Webb in Orson Welles's production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros when it moved with Laurence Olivier from Sloane Square to the West End in 1960; he appeared in the Royal Court's Brecht anthology in 1962; and in 1969 he toured two of Pinter's one-acters, A Slight Ache and The Lover, to South America. In Ibsen's The Wild Duck (1955), he was the sardonic idealist Gregers Werle – as Kenneth Tynan put it, "oozing sincerity while letting the man's neuroses seep through the facade". He played an apt and indignant Laertes to Alec Guinness's Hamlet (1951), then a passionate and neurotic son to a possessive mother in Coward's The Vortex (1952). Gough's character, Alfred Pennyworth, is the loyal butler and confidant to Bruce Wayne and his superhero alter ego, played in that film and its first sequel, Batman Returns (1992), by Michael Keaton. Or their sons." Michael Gough (I) (1916–2011) Michael Gough. While Wayne was portrayed by Val Kilmer in Batman Forever (1995) and George Clooney in Batman and Robin (1997), Gough remained a constant, providing charm and quintessential Britishness to ground the various offbeat situations.

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