Michael Gough Overview:

Character actor, Michael Gough, was born on Nov 23, 1916 in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya (now Malaysia). Gough died at the age of 94 on Mar 17, 2011 in London, England .

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Malaya-born actor of unwavering gaze, in British films from 1947: He moved from dark, sensitive, intense young men in the 1940s to more outright villains, and then along the Peter Cushing trail to leading roles in horror films, mostly as scientists whose creations got the better of them. In smaller roles beginning at the end of the 1960s, notably as Michael Keaton/Val Kilmer's man-servant in the Batman films.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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By Dan Day Jr. on Apr 23, 2014 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

This post is my contribution to The Great Villain Blogathon. In the history of the cinema, there have been many great villains. Being that I am a classic horror film fan, I have been exposed to several of the most outstanding bad guy performances of all time. But when it comes to pure outrageous v... Read full article


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By Dan Day Jr. on Apr 23, 2014 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

This post is my contribution to The Great Villain Blogathon. In the history of the cinema, there have been many great villains. Being that I am a classic horror film fan, I have been exposed to several of the most outstanding bad guy performances of all time. But when it comes to pure outrageous v... Read full article


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Michael Gough Quotes:

Dighton, 1st murderer: Talkers are no good doers.


Dr. Charles Decker: Konga! Put me down! Konga! Put me down!
[line repeats several more times]


Gulley Jimson: Anyone at home? Mrs. Morton Graines Waring? She's gone to Java.
Abel: That's all right, I'll work down there. Come. I want to get started.


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Michael Gough Facts
He came out of retirement to play Notary Hardenbrook in Sleepy Hollow (1999).

Children: Has a daughter Emma Frances Gough (born August 13, 1953) with his second wife Anne Leon. Had two children with Anneke Wills, Polly (b. 1963) and Jasper (b. 1965). Polly died tragically in a car accident in 1982, shortly before she was to be married. Her biological father was Anthony Newley, but Gough had adopted her and been her father since her birth. She never knew that Newley was her biological father. His son Jasper is a photographer for Southeby's.

Former brother-in-law of John Standing, the half brother of Anne Leon.

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