Urbane British character actor (pronounced "Goff") whose screen career has taken him from Tolstoy's
Anna Karenina (1948) to
Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors (1965) to
Batman (1989). 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 (1948),
The Man In The White Suit (1951), and
Richard III (1955), but he also slaved in horror movies such as
Horror Of Dracula (1958),
The Phantom Of The Opera (1962),
Black Zoo (1963),
Berserk (1967),
Horror Hospital (1972) and in a series of mad-scientist roles,
Konga (1961),
The Skull (1965), and
They Came From Beyond Space (1967). Not that he's renounced more serious endeavors; Gough has turned in expert performances in
Women In Love (1969),
The Boys From Brazil (1978),
The Dresser (1983),
Out Of Africa (1985),
The Age Of Innocence (1993), and
Wittgenstein (also 1993, as Bertrand Russell), to name just a few. Contemporary moviegoers may know him best, however, as Alfred the butler in
Batman (1989),
Batman Returns (1992), and
Batman Forever (1995).
