Michael Gough

Michael Gough

November 23, 1916 · 109 years old

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 Ba…

Known For

41 titles
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Batman

Batman

1989 · 2h 6m · Movie

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.

7.5
2
Batman Returns

Batman Returns

1992 · 2h 6m · Movie

While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.

7.1
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Corpse Bride

Corpse Bride

2005 · 1h 17m · Movie

When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.

7.4
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Batman & Robin

Batman & Robin

1997 · 2h 5m · Movie

Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.

3.8
5
Batman Forever

Batman Forever

1995 · 2h 1m · Movie

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.

5.5
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Out of Africa

Out of Africa

1985 · 2h 41m · Movie

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

7.1
7
Top Secret!

Top Secret!

1984 · 1h 30m · Movie

An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scie...

7.2
8
Horror of Dracula

Horror of Dracula

1958 · 1h 22m · Movie

When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.

7.2
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The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow

1988 · 1h 38m · Movie

An anthropologist goes to Haiti to research a drug that makes someone appear dead by suspending all vital signs.

6.4
10
The Legend of Hell House

The Legend of Hell House

1973 · 1h 35m · Movie

A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.

6.6
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The Fourth Protocol

The Fourth Protocol

1987 · 1h 59m · Movie

John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two count...

6.5
12
The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit

1951 · 1h 25m · Movie

An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

7.2
13
Women in Love

Women in Love

1969 · 2h 11m · Movie

Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.

7.1
14
Caravaggio

Caravaggio

1986 · 1h 33m · Movie

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

6.5
15
The Go-Between

The Go-Between

1971 · 1h 56m · Movie

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

7.2
16
The Dresser

The Dresser

1983 · 1h 58m · Movie

Personal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.

7.5
17
Richard III

Richard III

1955 · 2h 41m · Movie

A tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.

7.3
18
The Horse's Mouth

The Horse's Mouth

1958 · 1h 37m · Movie

An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.

6.9
19
Venom

Venom

1981 · 1h 32m · Movie

Terrorists in the process of kidnapping a child get trapped in a house with an extremely deadly snake.

5.8
20
The Skull

The Skull

1965 · 1h 23m · Movie

A collector comes into possession of the skull of the Marquis de Sade and learns it is possessed by an evil spirit.

6.2
21
Hour of Glory

Hour of Glory

1949 · 1h 46m · Movie

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

7.1
22
The Crimson Cult

The Crimson Cult

1968 · 1h 27m · Movie

Robert Manning visits the remote country house where his brother Peter was last seen. While his host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, Robert detects a feeling of menace in the air.

5.5
23
Nostradamus

Nostradamus

1994 · 1h 59m · Movie

Nostradamus (1503-66) was a French doctor, astrologer and seer during the Inquisition, successful in treating patients during an outbreak of plague.

5.8
24
Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein

1993 · 1h 12m · Movie

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of...

6.9
25
Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

1948 · 2h 19m · Movie

A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.

6.6
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Uncovered

Uncovered

1995 · 1h 43m · Movie

A woman finds a hidden message in a restored painting questioning a knight's death. When her friend is murdered investigating it, a chess game's moves in the painting link to killings from the past that she must solve.

5.7
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Satan's Slave

Satan's Slave

1976 · 1h 26m · Movie

A woman driving her parents to her uncle's house crashes near the house. Her parents die but she survives. She stays with her uncle, but it becomes clear that he and his son are planning something sinister for her.

5.3
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The Advocate

The Advocate

1993 · 1h 42m · Movie

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the myste...

6.6
29
Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

1970 · 1h 57m · Movie

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar, but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

6.1
30
Night Ambush

Night Ambush

1957 · 1h 33m · Movie

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.

6.5
31
Horrors of the Black Museum

Horrors of the Black Museum

1959 · 1h 33m · Movie

A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotizes his assistant to make him commit the required crimes.

5.9
32
The Garden

The Garden

1990 · 1h 32m · Movie

A nearly wordless visual narrative inter cuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones.

6.4
33
Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

1972 · 2h 5m · Movie

On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.

6.8
34
What Rats Won't Do

What Rats Won't Do

1998 · 1h 28m · Movie

Soon-to-be-married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a single case.

6.1
35
Galileo

Galileo

1975 · 2h 25m · Movie

This biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicu...

6.6
36
Saraband

Saraband

1948 · 1h 36m · Movie

Young Sophie Dorothea marries Prince George Louis but it's far from a love match. Then she falls for Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Königsmark.

6.5