Michael Gough

Was he gay?

R1 I don't think so

If I see the word "underrated" to describe a highly rated performer one more time, I will comment about it, if I feel like it at the time.

I liked his performance in Berserk as Albert Dorando, Joan’s partner running a circus. He helpfully places his head against a pole for Judy Geeson’s character Angela to hammer a stake through his cranium.

He’s also in Trog, playing a cynic who doesn’t believe that Joan’s troglodyte should be kept alive and studied. Real schlock cinema.

R4 He was good in Berserk. He was age appropriate for Joan, unlike Ty Hardin. But Joan was fucking Ty at the time.

He was very handsome. And because of his connection to Hammer horror films, I can see why Tim Burton latched onto him.

R6 he was very versatile- Hammer Horror films, Shakespeare, superhero movies, costume dramas, and comedy.

I read somewhere Steven Spielberg almost cast him as the British Colonel in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

I liked him on "Wallander" as the title character's father grappling with dementia. That gave him the opportunity to really do something.

Often his work was very understated--he and Alexis Smith do an amazing job in "The Age of innocence" playing the shy elderly wealthy couple whose word in high society is absolute law, but who are careful not to overtly abuse their authority (although they do behind the scenes). Their performances are so subtle.

R9 Are you sure that is Gough in Wallander?

You're right and I'm wrong, r10... it's not Gough but David Warner. My bad.

R11 Gough was a better actor than Warner. He always seemed creepy.

He must have had one of the longest careers of any actor

R13 I think so. 64 years of constant work.

I never realized that the doctor in "Brideshead Revisited" was Michael Gough! I've seen it a dozen times and never made the connection.

So hammy and grotesque. Very difficult to watch. And of course his "friendships" with the young men in both The Black Zoo and Konga were suspect..... Close friend of gay producer Herman Cohen.

R15 he wasn't?

R16 You don't like his performances? I think he stills every scene he is in.

His character met with an ignominious death in The Boys from Brazil. But at least his murderer was played by a German male model.

R18 Sky du Mont.

Great actor

[quote] He was very handsome.

He may have been fairly attractive seven decades ago. But he had the same unnaturally-thin head as Guy Rolfe, John Carradine and Jamie Lee Curtis as though they all suffered an awful delivery via forceps.

[quote] Was he gay?

No, R1, Gough was Lothario.

It was the other Gough who was a homo-pervert—

R22. The actor Michael Gough seemed like a classy and stand up guy, not some white trash child molester like that guy.

THE GO-BETWEEN:WOMEN IN LOVE:THE AGE OF INOCENCE

[quote] INOCENCE

Innocence

I don't know if I can forgive OP for leaving THE GO-BETWEEN out of his list. It's a fucking Masterpiece, and Michael has never been more handsome and sexier

[quote] It's a fucking Masterpiece

No, R26, there's no fornication for Michael Gough in this movie. The remake had nude fornication but he was dead by then.

Oh, thank you for correcting me in every single thread , are you a teacher IRL ? the fornication being the central part of the story, and Julie and Alan haing a good time in the hay, I think the terms "fucking masterpiece" apply

haVing. Sorry. Really.

[quote] His character met with an ignominious death

Gough made 199 screen appearances. He plays a murderer in 30 of them and he himself gets killed in 35 of them.

R30 I remember him in Berserk! Joan Crawford kills him so she can fuck Ty Hardin.

[quote] she can fuck Ty Hardin.

That's back to front.

R32 They fucked on and off screen.

R130, what did he do in the other 134?

R34 You mean R30?

If he wasn't a murderer or murder victim, he played Lords, butlers, lawyers, judges, doctors, and kooky in betweens.

He could always be counted upon

He had many appearances in television, too -- from 'Doctor Who' to 'Inspector Morse'.