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

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.

He was considered for the roles of Dr. Hans Fallanda, Dr. Armstrong and Sir Percy Heseltine in Lifeforce (1985).

Appeared in two films nominated for Best Picture Oscar: The Dresser (1983) and Out of Africa (1985), the latter won the category.

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.

Father-in-law of Sharon Gurney, who is married to his son Simon Gough. The couple played his character's son and daughter in the film Crucible of Horror (1971) (aka Crucible of Horror).

In 1970 he started making the film Capri for Ken Annakin with Zena Walker, Karen Dotrice and Jack Watling but finance for it ran out.

He has the same birthday (23 November) as Boris Karloff, with whom he co-starred in The Crimson Cult (1968).

Close friends with Alan Napier, who played Alfred Pennyworth on the television series Batman (1966).

He was the first TV Best Actor BAFTA winner to guest star on Doctor Who (1963).

Clement Armstrong in The Avengers (1961) episode "The Cybernauts", was an accomplished performer on both stage and screen.

He appeared in two different adaptations of William Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar": World Theatre: Julius Caesar (1959) and Julius Caesar (1970). He played Cassius in the former and Metellus Cimber in the latter. Both productions were directed by Stuart Burge.

He made four films with Peter Cushing: Horror of Dracula (1958), Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), The Skull (1965) and Top Secret! (1984). The last film is the only one of the four in which Christopher Lee did not also appear.

He made four films with Clive Revill: Reach for the Sky (1956), The Legend of Hell House (1973), Galileo (1975) and Let Him Have It (1991).

Children: Has a daughter Emma Frances Gough (born August 13, 1953) with his second wife Anne Leon. Had two children with Anneke Wills, Polly (born 1963) and Jasper (born 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.

He made ten films with Christopher Lee: Saraband (1948), Night Ambush (1957), Horror of Dracula (1958), Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), The Skull (1965), The Crimson Cult (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).

He appeared in two adaptations of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland": Alice in Wonderland (1966) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). He played the March Hare in the former and the Dodo in the latter.