Biography
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 Batman series.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
2024
as The Toymaker (voice)
While the Doctor plays the Trilogic Game, Steven and Dodo are forced to play seemingly childish but ultimately dangerous games with the aim of being r...

Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Uilleam / Dodo (voice)
Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
2008
as Self
A 6 part documentary of making of Batman franchise.

The Ties That Bind Us
2008
as Hedin (archive footage)
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.

Corpse Bride
2005
as Elder Gutknecht (voice)
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his ...
Biography: Val Kilmer
2004
as Self (archive footage)
A&E's Biography of Val Kilmer.

Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Fun
2000
as Gopher (voice)
Winnie the Pooh's Spookable Fun is a Walt Disney video release containing five terror-themed episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, includ...

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.

Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Pooh
2000
as Gopher (voice)
In a "Knight to Remember", during a rainy day in Christopher Robin’s attic, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit and Eeyore play a game of chess which ends up...

Sleepy Hollow
1999
as Notary Hardenbrook
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitat...

Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh
1999
as Gopher (voice)
In "Frankenpooh", it's a dark night in the Hundred Acre Wood, and Piglet wants to tell a nice, not-so-scary story, but Tigger tells a very scary story...

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999
as Doctor
In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the government...

The Cherry Orchard
1999
as Feers
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate aft...

What Rats Won't Do
1998
as Justice Tomlin
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...

St. Ives
1998
as Comte de Saint-Yves
In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the pris...

Batman & Robin
1997
as Alfred Pennyworth
Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.

Voice B Gone
1997
as The Voice, Johnny, Dog (voice)
a Dave Wasson Cartoon

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
1996
as Leo Tolstoy
While visiting Russia on his father’s lecture tour, Indy runs off on his own and meets Leo Tolstoy. Later, on a trip to Athens, Indy and his father ar...

The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995
as Barnaby
TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children h...

Batman Forever
1995
as Alfred Pennyworth
In the looming shadows of Gotham City, two villainous souls devise twin schemes of revenge against the city's dark guardian. Two-Face, disfigured by c...

A Village Affair
1995
as Sir Ralph Unwin
An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.

Nostradamus
1994
as Jean de Remy
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, afte...

Uncovered
1994
as Don Manuel
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, pa...

Winnie the Pooh Playtime: Cowboy Pooh
1994
as Gopher (voice)
Three stories from "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh": "The Masked Offender", "Rabbit Marks the Spot", and "The Good, the Bad and the Tigger".

The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Magistrate Boniface
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and politic...

The Age of Innocence
1993
as Henry van der Luyden
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin...

Wittgenstein
1993
as Betrand Russell
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose p...

Batman Returns
1992
as Alfred Pennyworth
Batman must face The Penguin, a sewer-dwelling gangleader intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Meanwhile, another Gotham resident finds hers...

Beauty and the Beast
1992
as (voice)
A young, beautiful girl awaits the day she will be killed after having asked for a most humble gift.

Children of the North
1991
as Arthur Apple
The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.

Let Him Have It
1991
as Lord Goddard
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangs...

Sleepers
1991
as Andrei Zorin
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and...

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as Arthur Holmwood (archive footage)
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

The Wanderer
1991
as Veteran Warrior
Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer, telling of a warrior's loss of a beloved Lord and his subsequent loneliness as he tracks across count...

The Garden
1990
as Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a cro...

The Shell Seekers
1989
as Roy Brookner
After a mild heart attack at 63, Penelope Keeling is not ready to be an invalid yet...despite her children's attempts to take control of her life. She...

The Mountain and the Molehill
1989
as Mr Maggs
It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the ord...

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
1989
as Teacher #2 (voice)
A little boy whose dreams transcend reality is sucked into his own fantasy, which is everything he has dreamed of, until he unleashes an old secret th...

Batman
1989
as Alfred Pennyworth
Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis when a deformed madman calling himself "The Joker" seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld.

Strapless
1989
as Douglas Brodie
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inh...

The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988
as Schoonbacher
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his...

Cariani and the Courtesans
1987
as Albani
When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger a...

The Fourth Protocol
1987
as Sir Bernard Hemmings
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A cr...

Maschenka
1987
as Vater
Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'.

Caravaggio
1986
as Cardinal Del Monte
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous pai...

Hard Travelling
1986
as Peter
Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden and violent death. She escapes into a restless succession of journeys whose encou...

Out of Africa
1985
as Lord Delamere
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film...

Lace 2
1985
While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.

Arthur the King
1985
as Archbishop
Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunatel...

The Biko Inquest
1984
as Professor Loubser
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important ...

A Christmas Carol
1984
as Mr. Poole
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

Oxford Blues
1984
as Doctor Ambrose
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with he...

Top Secret!
1984
as Dr. Paul Flammond
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillar...

Memed My Hawk
1984
as Kerimoglu
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province'...

The Dresser
1983
as Frank Carrington
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles...

To the Lighthouse
1983
as Mr. Ramsay
A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spe...

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
1983
as Councillor Hedin
Omega, an ancient Time Lord made of pure anti-matter, once defeated by the Doctor, is plotting to cross over into this dimension by bonding with the D...

Cymbeline
1982
as Belarius
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who go...
Another Flip for Dominick
1982
as Professor Burrows
Now a respected teacher of temporal observers, Dominick has not visited the past for several years. He is content with his lot, resigned to the idea t...

Witness for the Prosecution
1982
as Judge
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the prac...

Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Dr. Rust
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon...

Venom
1981
as David Ball
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a ...

Question of Love
1978
as Sir Baldwin
Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom...

The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Mr. Harrington
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Sea-Change
1976
as Father
An elderly man and his only son continue to interact, following the death of the son in World War 2.

Satan's Slave
1976
as Alexander Yorke
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her evil uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even people she thought were dead comes back to h...

Galileo
1975
as Sagredo
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion ...

The Man from Nowhere
1975
as Voice of the Man (voice)
The Man from Nowhere is a beautifully told Victorian gothic thriller from acclaimed director James Hill. Young orphan Alice has been invited by her ri...

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
as Mr. Yule
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Chu...

The Gift of Friendship
1974
as Bill Wakely
Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.
Monet in London
1974
as Narrator
A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at Monet's work in London, particularly with the development of the theme of the dispersion of light by mist...

The Legend of Hell House
1973
as Emeric Belasco (uncredited)
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House t...

Horror Hospital
1973
as Dr. Christian Storm
Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved,...

Vincent the Dutchman
1972
as Vincent Van Gogh
A long, brave reach for a portrait, not of an intimate, private love, but of an inspiration, an icon, a man only ever sketched obliquely however many ...

Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972
as Norfolk
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back ov...

Savage Messiah
1972
as M. Gaudier
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is...

Crucible of Horror
1971
as Walter Eastwood
A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.

The Search for the Nile
1971
as David Livingstone
The Nile's source was the last great mystery for European explorers in the 19th century. The story of its discovery is one of heroism in the service o...

The Go-Between
1971
as Mr Maudsley
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress ...

Trog
1970
as Sam Murdock
Anthropologist Dr. Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte -- an Ice Age "missing link": half-caveman, half-ape -- in a local cave. Through medical e...

Julius Caesar
1970
as Metellus Cimber
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ide...

A Walk with Love and Death
1969
as Mad Monk
During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love with an aristocrat. As they find shelter in a monaste...

Women in Love
1969
as Mr. Brangwen
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a weal...

Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968
as Elder
When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming, an...

One Night... a Train
1968
as Jeremiah
The Belgian linguistics professor Matthias is going through a difficult period in relations with his girlfriend Anne. She is French, he is Belgian, an...

Berserk!
1967
as Albert Dorando
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.

They Came from Beyond Space
1967
as Dr. Arnold Grey
A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field.

Alice in Wonderland
1966
as March Hare
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, th...

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
1966
as The Toymaker
The travellers arrive in a strange domain presided over by the Celestial Toymaker — an enigmatic, immortal entity who forces them to play a series of ...
The Drinking Party
1965
as Pausanias
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love b...

The Skull
1965
as Auctioneer
An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.

Game for Three Losers
1965
as Robert Hilary
A politician is set up by his secretary and blackmailed by her brother.

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965
as Eric Landor (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An arch...

The Count of Monte Cristo
1964
as Gerard de Villefort
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend...

Tamahine
1963
as Cartwright
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier ...

Black Zoo
1963
as Michael Conrad
Michael Conrad, owner of a group of strange animals, trains his beasts to obey him, unleashing them on anyone who stands in his way. His wife and mute...

The Phantom of the Opera
1962
as Lord Ambrose d'Arcy
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is inten...

Candidate for Murder
1962
as Donald Edwards
Professional killer Kersten arrives in England and is hired by Donald Edwards to murder his wife Helene. But Helene's lover Robert Vaughan discovers t...

What a Carve Up!
1961
as Fisk - the Butler
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather ecce...

Mr. Topaze
1961
as Tamise
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing...

Konga
1961
as Dr. Charles Decker
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He br...

Horrors of the Black Museum
1959
as Edmond Bancroft
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.

Model for Murder
1959
as Kingsley Beauchamp
An American officer scours Britain in search of his dead brother's girlfriend and becomes involved in a jewel heist.

The Horse's Mouth
1958
as Abel
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse ...

Dracula
1958
as Arthur Holmwood
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only ...
The Peaceful Inn
1957
as Hatlock
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrives at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness ...
The House in the Woods
1957
as Geoffrey Carter
A novelist and his wife go to stay at a cottage owned by a painter whose wife has just died.

Ill Met by Moonlight
1957
as Andoni Zoidakis
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Reach for the Sky
1956
as Flying Instructor Pearson
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing lead...

Richard III
1955
as Dighton
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himse...

The Last Reunion
1955
While holding their annual reunion, the former members of a Royal Air Force bomber crew begin to sense the supernatural presence of their old squadron...

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953
as Duke of Montrose
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becom...

The Sword and the Rose
1953
as Duke of Buckingham
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She ...

Twice Upon a Time
1953
as Mr. Lloyd
A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while ...

Night Was Our Friend
1951
as Martin
Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr....

The Man in the White Suit
1951
as Michael Corland
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune sell...

Blackmailed
1951
as Maurice Edwards
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young arti...

No Resting Place
1951
as Alec Kyle
The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Resting Place. Filmed on location in Ireland, the fi...

Ha'penny Breeze
1950
as (uncredited)
A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, friends and the villagers he enters his boat in a yach...

The Small Back Room
1949
as Capt. Dick Stuart
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal office...

Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948
as Prince Charles
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of E...

Blanche Fury
1948
as Laurence Fury
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marrie...

Anna Karenina
1948
as Nicholai
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's compani...