{"id":16762,"date":"2011-03-18T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T06:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=16762"},"modified":"2011-03-18T17:18:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T06:18:51","slug":"vale-michael-gough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2011\/03\/18\/vale-michael-gough\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Michael Gough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16766\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16766\" title=\"gough2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gough2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Gough - 1916-2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alfred Gough, the man best remembered for his portrayal of butler Alfred Pennyworth in the 90&#8217;s <em>Batman <\/em>franchise, has passed away. Gough, who played Batman&#8217;s butler in <em>Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever<\/em> and <em>Batman &amp; Robin<\/em>, also appeared in films for the popular Hammer studio during the 60&#8217;s. Among the titles he appeared in were <em>Dracula<\/em> (1958), <em>The Phantom Of The Opera<\/em>, <em>The Corpse<\/em>, and <em>Satan&#8217;s Slave<\/em>. He played the March Hare in the &#8217;55 version of <em>Alice In Wonderland<\/em>, Leo Tolstoy in an episode of <em>The Young Indiana Jones<\/em>, as well as appearing in a number of non-<em>Batman<\/em> Tim Burton films, <em>Sleepy Hollow<\/em>, <em>Corpse Bride<\/em>, and his final role in the remake of <em>Alice In Wonderland<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Doctor Who<\/em> fans will also recognize him from his appearance as the titular villain in the story <em>The Celestial Toymaker<\/em>, and he was once married to <em>Doctor Who<\/em> actress Anneke Wilkes, who played Polly, a companion to Patrick Troughton&#8217;s second Doctor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Gough passed away March 11th, aged 94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alfred Gough, the man best remembered for his portrayal of butler Alfred Pennyworth in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}