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.

Filmography

• 2024Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker — The Toymaker (voice)
• 2021Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser — March Hare (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2010Alice in Wonderland — Uilleam / Dodo (voice)
• 2008The Ties That Bind Us — Hedin (archive footage)
• 2005Corpse Bride — Elder Gutknecht (voice)
• 1999Sleepy Hollow — Notary Hardenbrook
• 1999The Cherry Orchard — Feers
• 1999The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka — Doctor
• 1998St. Ives — Comte de Saint-Yves
• 1998What Rats Won't Do — Justice Tomlin
• 1997Batman & Robin — Alfred Pennyworth
• 1996The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father — Leo Tolstoy
• 1995A Village Affair — Sir Ralph Unwin
• 1995Batman Forever — Alfred Pennyworth
• 1995The Haunting of Helen Walker — Barnaby
• 1995Uncovered — Don Manuel
• 1994Nostradamus — Jean de Remy
• 1993The Age of Innocence — Henry van der Luyden
• 1993The Hour of the Pig — Magistrate Boniface
• 1993Wittgenstein — Betrand Russell
• 1992Batman Returns — Alfred
• 1992Dracula in the Movies — (archive footage)
• 1991Children of the North — Arthur Apple
• 1991Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook — Arthur Holmwood (archive footage)
• 1991Let Him Have It — Lord Goddard
• 1991Sleepers — Andrei Zorin
• Sleepers — Andrei Zorin
• 1991The Wanderer — Veteran Warrior
• 1990The Garden — Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna
• 1989Batman — Alfred
• Blackeyes — Maurice James Kingsley
• Campion — Mr. Hayhoe
• Screen One — Mr. Maggs
• 1989Strapless — Douglas Brodie
• 1989The Mountain and the Molehill — Mr Maggs
• 1989The Shell Seekers — Roy Brookner
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Reader
• 1988The Serpent and the Rainbow — Schoonbacher
• A Killing on the Exchange — Charles Makepeace
• 1987Cariani and the Courtesans — Albani
• Inspector Morse — Philip Ogleby
• 1987Maschenka — Vater
• 1987The Fourth Protocol — Sir Bernard Hemmings
• 1986Caravaggio — Cardinal Del Monte
• 1986Hard Travelling — Peter
• Ladies in Charge — Arthur James
• ScreenPlay — Albani
• The Little Vampire — Onkel Theodor
• 1985Arthur the King — Archbishop
• 1985Lace 2
• 1985Out of Africa — Lord Delamere
• Screen Two — Peter, Magistrate Boniface
• 1984A Christmas Carol — Mr. Poole
• 1984Memed My Hawk — Kerimoglu
• Mistral's Daughter — Cardinal
• 1984Oxford Blues — Doctor Ambrose
• 1984The Biko Inquest — Professor Loubser
• 1984Top Secret! — Dr. Paul Flammond
• 1983Cymbeline — Belarius
• 1983Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity — Councillor Hedin
• 1983The Dresser — Frank Carrington
• 1983To the Lighthouse — Mr. Ramsay
• 1982Another Flip for Dominick — Professor Burrows
• Inside the Third Reich — Dr. Rust
• Smiley's People — Mikhel
• The Agatha Christie Hour — Sir George Durand
• 1982Witness for the Prosecution — Judge
• 1981Venom — David Ball
• Blake's 7 — Hower
• 1978Question of Love — Sir Baldwin
• Strangers — Professor Whittingham
• 1978The Boys from Brazil — Mr. Harrington
• 1976Satan's Slave — Alexander Yorke
• 1976Sea-Change — Father
• 1975Galileo — Sagredo
• Shades of Greene — Ransom
• Ten from the Twenties — Peter
• 1975The Man from Nowhere — Voice of the Man (voice)
• Fall of Eagles — Helphand
• 1974Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill — Mr. Yule
• Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill — Mr. Yule
• Microbes and Men — Sir Almroth Wright
• 1974Monet in London — Narrator
• QB VII — Dr. Fletcher
• Shoulder to Shoulder — Dr Richard Pankhurst
• 1974The Gift of Friendship — Bill Wakely
• Centre Play — Matt, Father
• 1973Horror Hospital — Dr. Christian Storm
• 1973The Legend of Hell House — Emeric Belasco (uncredited)
• Colditz — Major Schaeffer
• Crown Court — Dr. De Quincey
• 1972Henry VIII and His Six Wives — Norfolk
• 1972Savage Messiah — M. Gaudier
• 1972The Man Who Came to Dinner — Beverly Carlton
• The Protectors — Shkoder
• 1972Vincent the Dutchman — Vincent Van Gogh
• 1971Crucible of Horror — Walter Eastwood
• 1971The Go-Between — Mr Maudsley
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes — Governor
• The Search for the Nile — David Livingstone
• 1970Julius Caesar — Metellus Cimber
• Play for Today — Professor Burrows
• 1970Trog — Sam Murdock
• 1969A Walk with Love and Death — Mad Monk
• The Main Chance — Sir George Andrews
• 1969Women in Love — Mr. Brangwen
• 1968Curse of the Crimson Altar — Elder
• For Amusement Only — Henry
• Journey to the Unknown — Royal
• 1968One Night... a Train — Jeremiah
• The Champions — Major Joss
• 1968The Gentle Art of Making Enemies — Ruskin
• Treasure Island — Squire Trelawney
• 1967Berserk! — Albert Dorando
• ITV Playhouse — Bill Wakely
• Pride and Prejudice — Mr. Bennet
• 1967They Came from Beyond Space — Dr. Arnold Grey
• 1966Alice in Wonderland — March Hare
• 1966Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker — The Toymaker
• BBC Play of the Month — Eliut
• 1965Dr. Terror's House of Horrors — Eric Landor (segment 4 "Disembodied Hand")
• 1965Game for Three Losers — Robert Hilary
• 1965The Drinking Party — Pausanias
• The Man in Room 17 — Andrei Konev
• 1965The Skull — Auctioneer
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Ted Warner
• Detective — Holroyd
• The Count of Monte Cristo — Gérard de Villefort
• Theatre 625 — Clodius Pulcher, Geoffrey Melville, Harry
• 1963Black Zoo — Michael Conrad
• Doctor Who — Toymaker, Councillor Hedin
• 1963Tamahine — Cartwright
• 1962Candidate for Murder — Donald Edwards
• 1962The Phantom of the Opera — Lord Ambrose d'Arcy
• The Saint — Collin Phillips
• Drama 61-67 — Charles
• 1961Konga — Dr. Charles Decker
• 1961Mr. Topaze — Tamise
• The Avengers — Nutski
• 1961What a Carve Up! — Fisk - the Butler
• 1959Horrors of the Black Museum — Edmond Bancroft
• 1959Model for Murder — Kingsley Beauchamp
• 1958Dracula — Arthur Holmwood
• 1958The Horse's Mouth — Abel
• 1957Ill Met by Moonlight — Andoni Zoidakis
• 1957The House in the Woods — Geoffrey Carter
• 1957The Peaceful Inn — Hatlock
• Armchair Theatre — The Doctor, George in 'Double Exit'
• 1956Reach for the Sky — Flying Instructor Pearson
• 1955Richard III — Dighton
• The Adventures of Robin Hood — Boland
• 1955The Last Reunion
• Sherlock Holmes
• 1953Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue — Duke of Montrose
• 1953The Sword and the Rose — Duke of Buckingham
• 1953Twice Upon a Time — Mr. Lloyd
• 1951Blackmailed — Maurice Edwards
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Beverley Carlton, Judge, Roy Brookner
• 1951Night Was Our Friend — Martin
• 1951No Resting Place — Alec Kyle
• 1951The Man in the White Suit — Michael Corland
• 1950Ha'penny Breeze — (uncredited)
• 1949The Small Back Room — Capt. Dick Stuart
• 1948Anna Karenina — Nicholai
• 1948Blanche Fury — Lawrence Fury
• 1948Saraband for Dead Lovers — Prince Charles

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2026Off the Leash — Self
• 2008Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight — Self
• 2000Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend — Self
• The World of Hammer — Self (archive footage)