Michael Gough was an English character actor who appeared in over 150 films. He is perhaps best known to international audiences for his roles in the Hammer Horror films from 1958, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four movies of the Burton/Schumacher Batman franchise, beginning with Batman . Michael Gough was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya , the son of British parents Frances Atkins and Francis Berkeley Gough. Gough was educated in Rye Hill school, Tunbridge Wells, and Durham School, he moved onto Wye Agricultural College which he left to go to the Old Vic. During World... War II Gough was a conscientious objector, like his friend Frith Banbury, although he was obliged to serve in the Non-Combatant Corps and was a member of No. 6 Company, NCC, in Liverpool. Gough made his film debut in 1948 in Blanche Fury, and since appeared extensively on British television. In 1955, he portrayed one of the two murderers who kill the Duke of Clarence as well as the two little princes in Laurence Olivier's Richard III.
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| Birthdate: | November 23, 1916 |
| Birthplace: | Peninsular Malaysia |
| Date of death: | March 17, 2011 |
| Height: | 5' 9" |
| Education: | Durham School |