Michael Gough(1916-2011)
- Actor
Tony Award-winning English actor Michael Gough, best known for playing
the butler Alfred Pennyworth in the first four
Batman (1989, 1992, 1995 & 1997) movies and for playing the
arch-criminal Dr. Clement Armstrong in
The Avengers (1961) episode "The
Cybernauts", was an accomplished performer on both stage and screen. He
was nominated twice for Tony Awards, in 1979 for Best Featured Actor in
a Play for Alan Ayckbourn's "Bedroom
Farce" and in 1988 in the same category for
Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code",
winning in 1979. Though he never achieved on the small screen and
silver screen what he did in the theater, Gough's career in television
and movies spanned sixty-plus years over eight decades. Michael Gough
died at age 94 on March 17, 2011 at his home near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
