Legendary actor and frequent Tim Burton collaborator Michael Gough died on Thursday, March 17th. He was 94.
Michael Gough had an extensive career with roles in over 150 films. He began acting in the 1940s and became a staple of the British Hammer horror films in the 1950s and 1960s (which Burton is quite fond of).
Gough is perhaps best known as playing Alfred Pennyworth in Burton's Batman in 1989 and Batman Returns in 1992. He played the same character in the Joel Schumacher sequels, such as the Burton-produced Batman Forever (1995). Gough continued to work with Burton in other films, playing Notary Hardenbrook in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and supplying the voice of Elder Gutneckt in Corpse Bride (2005). Gough came out of retirement to provide his voice to the Dodo Bird in Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), his final performance.
4 comments:
awww, that is so sad, he was such a cute old man :(
"Why go up there when people are dying to get down here?"
Very sad indeed! However, he was born in 1916, not 1917!
RIP Michael, you will be missed...
R.I.P. loved your films. I will always have a place in my heart for you. <@
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