Michael Gough Filmography

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Tim Burton returns to the dark but fanciful animated style of The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stop-motion black comedy. Victor (voice of Johnny Depp) lives in a small European village in the 19th century, where he is pledged to marry Victoria (voice of Emily Watson), a partnership Read More

Justice League: A Knight of Shadows, Part 2

Actors: Michael T. Weiss, Olivia D'Abo, Pam Grier, Soren Fulton, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, medieval villains Morgaine and Mordred summon an army of the "undead" to vanquish the Justice League and to help them get their hands on the Philosopher's Stone. The villains' ultimate goal is to restore England to its ancient splendor, with themselves as Read More

Justice League: A Knight of Shadows , Part 1

Actors: Michael T. Weiss, Olivia D'Abo, Pam Grier, Soren Fulton, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, medieval sorceress Morgaine LeFey and her equally villainous son Mordred reappear in the present, just before Halloween. The two reprobates are searchinig for the Philosopher's Stone, which will enable them to restore England to its Arthurian glory, with Read More

Sleepy Hollow

Actors: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien

Synopsis: Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this version, Ichabod (Johnny Depp) is a New York City detective whose unorthodox techniques and penchant for gadgets make him unpopular with is colleagues. Read More

The Cherry Orchard

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Katrin Cartlidge, Owen Teale, Frances de la Tour

Synopsis: Renowned Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis wrote and directed this adaptation of the classic final drama by playwright Anton Chekhov, set in 1900. Lyubov Ranevskaya (Charlotte Rampling) left Russia to escape troubling memories of the death of her son. Now her family is riddled with debt and Read More

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: More Than Zero

Actors: Quinton Flynn, John deLancie, Robert Foxworth, Rob Paulsen, Jennifer Hale

Synopsis: In Venice, a group of scientists accidentally release a malevolent spirit in an old house. The Quest team is summoned to investigate the phenomenon and hopefully send the ghost back where it came from. Containing a bit more comic relief than usual (perhaps unintentionally), "More Than Zero" Read More

Batman & Robin

Actors: Jesse Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone

Synopsis: This was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well as the second in the Batman series directed by Joel Schumacher and the first featuring George Clooney as the Caped Crusader; it features not one but two super-villains, and Read More

Batman Forever

Actors: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell

Synopsis: Director Joel Schumacher inherited the Batman franchise from Tim Burton and began steering it in the campier direction of the Sixties television show with this third installment. First-time Batman/Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer), in his only outing as the Caped Crusader, is effectively brooding as he Read More

The Haunting of Helen Walker

Synopsis: Previously and brilliantly filmed by director Jack Clayton as The Innocents in 1961, Henry James' classic psychological-horror novel The Turn of the Screw was remade 34 years later in the form of this TV movie, which changes the original locale and several character names. American governess Helen Read More

Nostradamus

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, F. Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond

Synopsis: This period drama explores the life and times of the 16th century doctor and scientist who some believed could see into the future. Michel de Nostradamus (Tcheky Karyo) was the son in a Jewish family who posed as Catholics to be spared the wrath of the Inquisition. As a student of the renowned Read More

Uncovered

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, John Wood, Sinéad Cusack, Paudge Behan, Art Malik

Synopsis: Julia (Kate Beckinsale) has been busy about her job, doing painstaking restoration work on a fifteenth-century painting. As good restoration work is at least as much about doing good research and detective work as it is about the physical process of restoration, when her cleanup of the Flemish Read More

Boxing Helena

Crew: Leadman

Actors: Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton, Kurtwood Smith, Betsy Clark

Synopsis:
In this stylized art film, which marked the directorial debut of second-generation filmmaker Jennifer Chambers Lynch, a surgeon with a mommy fixation and a problem with premature ejaculation grows obsessed with a vivacious young libertine, to the detriment of her mobility. Dr. Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands Read More

The Age of Innocence

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Miriam Margolyes, Richard E. Grant, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th century New York society. Shortly after his engagement to blandly genteel May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is reacquainted Read More

Wittgenstein

Actors: Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Kevin Collins

Synopsis: Derek Jarman directed this witty, stylish biography of the life of the eccentric 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (Karl Johnson). Wittgenstein is shown as a boy living a repressive youth, demonstrated by his family appearing in Roman togas. When Wittgenstein leaves to study under Read More

The Advocate

Actors: Colin Firth, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasence, Nicol Williamson, Lysette Anthony

Synopsis: In France in 1452, the dark superstition of the Medieval era was beginning to give way to the more enlightened attitudes of the Renaissance. But the changes were slow in coming, as Richard Courtois (Colin Firth) learns when he moves to the country village of Abbeville, owned and ruled by the Read More

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

Actors: Gabriel Damon, René Auberjonois, Mickey Rooney, Danny Mann, Laura Mooney

Synopsis: Adventure is only limited by imagination in this exciting animated fantasy from The Goonies writer Chris Columbus. Warmly welcomed to the Kingdom of Slumberland by the king himself, young Nemo is christened heir to the throne and given a magical key that will open any door in the kingdom. Though Read More

Batman Returns

Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a Read More

Let Him Have It

Actors: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Clare Holman, Tom Bell

Synopsis: The Derek Bentley Case has been an uneasy blight on the British legal system since the early 1950s. Two young, frightened boys were caught by police trying to break into to a building. One of the boys had a gun. When the policeman reached out to the youth to turn over the gun, his friend shouted Read More

Sleepers

Actors: Nigel Havers, Warren Clarke, David Calder, Michael Gough

Synopsis: This four-part British miniseries took place just after the fall of the Soviet Union. Going through Kremlin files, a team of Soviet bureaucrats discover that two KGB "sleepers," or secret agents, were assigned to England 20 years before, and had been there ever since. One of the sleepers was a Read More

Strapless

Actors: Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda, Alan Howard, Michael Gough

Synopsis: As she enters middle age, expatriate American M.D. Lillian Hempel (Blair Brown) ends a long-term relationship with her actor boyfriend and embarks on a tour of European churches. After a chance encounter with charming businessman Raymond Forbes (Bruno Ganz), Lillian finds herself tempted to Read More

The Garden

Actors: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Mills, Jody Graber, Kevin Collins, Pete Lee-Wilson, Philip MacDonald, Roger Cook

Synopsis: Director Derek Jarman takes the viewer for a walk around his own garden in rural England for this non-narrative film. Many of the scenes depict the Passion of Christ, but the sufferings are instead visited upon a gay couple. Jarman then assaults the senses with a series of images, including a Read More

Blackeyes

Actors: Michael Gough, Carol Royle, Gina Bellman, Nigel Planer

Synopsis: In this intricately layered, dark story, a woman whose guardian sexually abused her tells her story. It seems that her guardian also used her life as the basis for a series of stories about a woman known as Blackeyes. The real-life woman and the fictional woman each tell their stories, while Read More

Batman

Actors: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Behind the black cowl, Gotham City superhero Batman is really millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who turned to crimefighting after his parents were brutally murdered before his eyes. The only person to share Wayne's secret is faithful butler Alfred (Michael Gough). The Read More

Campion: The Case of the Late Pig

Actors: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Moray Watson, Amanda Elwes, John Fortune

Synopsis: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel The Case of the Late Pig. The title character is Roland Isidore "Pig" Peters (Mike Charles), a lifelong bully who had been Campion's principal tormentor Read More

The Shell Seekers

Actors: Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: The made-for-TV The Shell Seekers was based on the best-selling novel by Rosamunde Pincher. Heading the cast is Angela Lansbury as Penelope Keeling, a reclusive British matron of comfortable means who suffers a near-fatal heart attack. While recovering, Penelope determines that her attack was a Read More

The Mountain and the Molehill

Inspector Morse [TV Series]

Synopsis: This long-running TV series features John Thaw as the morose but shrewd detective of the title, who along with his partner -- the dependable Sgt. Lewis -- investigates a variety of murderous crimes against the picturesque back-drop of Oxford, England. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Actors: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield, Brent Jennings

Synopsis: Horror maven Wes Craven attempted a slight change of pace from his usual slasher movie milieu with this chiller loosely based on a true story. Bill Pullman stars as Dennis Alan, a Harvard researcher sent to Haiti by a pharmaceutical company to investigate the zombie legend and any possible Read More

The Wizard of Speed and Time

Actors: Mike Jittlov, Richard Kaye

Synopsis: Mike Jittlov, a master of special effects who's strutted his stuff in several short films, is both the director and star of The Wizard of Speed and Time. Jittlov plays himself, an eager-beaver director who offers a reel of special effects to a TV producer. The director makes a huge bet to the Read More

The Fourth Protocol

Actors: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty, Betsy Brantley, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: Scripted by Frederick Forsyth from his own novel, The Fourth Protocol is a fact-based spy thriller. The titular protocol is a secret agreement between America, Britain and Russia to cease smuggling nuclear weapons into their respective countries. This figures into the schemes of several rogue Read More

Caravaggio

Actors: Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the title role, whom (according to Jarman) essentially told his own life story in his paintings. Caravaggio travelled among thieves and Read More

Maschenka

Actors: Cary Elwes, Irina Brook, Sunnyi Melles, Jonathan Coy, Freddie Jones

Synopsis: The romantic drama Maschenka is a loose adaptation of a novel by Vladimir Nabokov done in a style reminiscent of a Merchant-Ivory production. Ganin (Cary Elwes) is a Russian refugee fleeing the 1917 Revolution who, at his Berlin boardinghouse, recalls his love for the beautiful Maschenka (Irina Brook Read More

Arthur the King

Actors: Candice Bergen, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: Originally filmed in 1982, Arthur the King wasn't able to secure a network-TV berth until April 26, 1985. Malcolm McDowell plays good King Arthur, whose dream of Camelot is endangered by the evil Morgan Le Fay, played by Candice Bergen in her TV-movie debut. That this might have been intended as Read More

Out of Africa

Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens

Synopsis: Out of Africa is drawn from the life and writings of Danish author Isak Dinesen, who during the time that the film's events occured was known by her married name, Karen Blixen-Flecke. For convenience's sake, Karen (Meryl Streep) has married Baron Bor Blixen-Flecke (Klaus Maria Brandauer). In 1914 Read More

Lace II

Actors: Brooke Adams, Deborah Raffin, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates, Anthony Higgins

Synopsis: In this sequel to the original miniseries, Lili (Phoebe Cates), having discovered the true identity of her mother, now begins looking for her father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Top Secret!

Actors: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Christopher Villiers, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork Kentucky Fried Movie), Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid of an "Elvis" movie and a World War II "underground resistance" Read More

Oxford Blues

Actors: Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Julian Sands, Julian Firth

Synopsis: This is an uneven modern remake of A Yank at Oxford (1938) from writer-director Robert Boris, the man behind such diverse earlier productions as Some Kind of Hero (1981) and Doctor Detroit (1983). Rob Lowe stars as Nick Di Angelo, an American hustler and parking attendant in Las Vegas who falls in Read More

A Christmas Carol

Actors: David Warner, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale of one man learning the true meaning of Christmas is brought to the screen once again in this made-for-TV movie. Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott) is a cynical old man whose greatest concern is money, and who regards compassion as a luxury he can't afford. On Read More

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity, Episode 4

Actors: Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Leonard Sachs, Paul Jerricho

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "Arc of Infinity," the anti-matter creature that has bonded with the Doctor (Peter Davison) is revealed to be the notorious renegade Time Lord Omega (Ian Collier). Spared execution on his home planet Gallifrey, the Doctor pilots the TARDIS to earth for a Read More

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity, Episode 3

Actors: Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Leonard Sachs, Ian Collier

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "Arc of Infinity," a renegade anti-matter creature (Ian Collier) has passed over into the normal universe by bonding with the Doctor (Peter Davison). The High Council of Gallifrey decrees that the only way to destroy the deadly creature is to execute the Read More

Memed, My Hawk

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Herbert Lom, Simon Dutton, Denis Quilley, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: This disappointing, pretentious farce by writer and director Peter Ustinov, who also stars as the incompetent but powerful Abki Aga, is based on a novel by Yashar Kemal about Memed (Simon Dutton) a man who escapes into the Turkish hills with the woman he loves (Leonie Mellinger), a woman already Read More

The Dresser

Actors: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins

Synopsis: The complicated relationship of two men who have given their lives to the theater forms the basis for this acclaimed drama. During World War II, an aging but once famous Shakespearean actor, addressed by his cast and crew only as "Sir" (Albert Finney), continues to tour the British theater circuit Read More

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity, Episode 2

Actors: Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Leonard Sachs, Ian Collier

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "Arc of Infinity," the renegade anti-matter creature (Ian Collier) has overtaken the titular Arc as part of an overall scheme to pass over into normal matter. Crucial to the villain's plan is to adopt a physical presence, and thus, the renegade bonds Read More

Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity, Episode 1

Actors: Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Leonard Sachs, Ian Collier, Paul Jerricho

Synopsis: On January 3, 1983, Doctor Who launched its 20th season with episode one of the four-part "Arc of Infinity." The titular Arc has been commandeered by a mysterious anti-matter creature (Ian Collier), who hopes to return to the normal universe. Not unexpectedly, this turn of events will have Read More

To the Lighthouse

Synopsis: Like the Virginia Woolf novel which it interprets, this 1983 BBC production has three parts: "The Window," "Time Passes," and "The Lighthouse." The first focuses on one day in the life of the Ramsay family -- the father and mother, their eight children, and four guests -- while they vacation on Read More

Witness for the Prosecution

Actors: Beau Bridges, Deborah Kerr, Ralph Richardson, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: From its humble beginnings as a four-character short story, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution matriculated into a long-running London and Broadway stage hit, as well as a masterful 1957 film version directed by Billy Wilder. The 1982 TV version of Witness was overseen by Briton Norman Rosemont Read More

Venom

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles, Sterling Hayden, Lance Holcomb

Synopsis: A big black mamba snake that has gotten loose in a townhouse slithers through a kidnapping plot in this film. Based on a novel by Alan Scholefield, Venom features a big name British cast that seems to be slumming in a B-movie project. Dr. Marion Stowe (Sarah Miles) is a toxicologist who has Read More

Blakes 7: Volcano

Actors: Michael Keating, Paul Darrow, Jan Chappell, Josette Simon, Steven Pacey

Synopsis: Avon (Paul Darrow) chooses the peace-loving planet Obsidian for his new headquarters. Dayna (Josette Simon) and Tarrant (Steven Pacey) likewise arrive on Obsidian, hoping to negotiate a truce between their warring civilizations. Alas, Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce) is prepared to launch an attack Read More

The Boys From Brazil

Actors: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen

Synopsis: This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been mysteriously murdered. Elderly Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), brought into the case when the clues seem to point to a neo-fascist plot Read More

Satan's Slave

Actors: Michael Gough

Synopsis: Michael Gough once more goes the horror-movie route in the British Satan's Slave. Gough plays the head of a coven of witches. He roams the countryside in search of new minions for the Dark Prince. A fiery climax caps this standard effort. Satan's Slave received but minimal theatrical play in the Read More

Galileo

Actors: Topol, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Clive Revill

Synopsis: Filmed in England, Galileo is based on Charles Laughton's 1947 adaptation of the play by Bertolt Brecht, which, like this 1975 film, was directed by Joseph Losey. Israeli film-star Topol plays the 17th century Italian astronomer, whose theories run contrary to the edicts of the Catholic Church. Read More

The Legend of Hell House

Actors: Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roland Culver

Synopsis: Richard Matheson adapted the screenplay of The Legend of Hell House from his own novel. In the tradition of Shirley Jackson's Haunting of Hill House, four people with alleged extrasensory powers are called upon to spend a weekend in a supposedly haunted house, to either prove or disprove the Read More

Horror Hospital

Actors: Vanessa Shaw, Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Dennis Price

Synopsis: This gory British horror satire features a hammy Michael Gough as Doctor Storm, the demented overseer of a bizarre health resort advertising "Hairy Holidays" for teenage hipsters -- on whom he secretly performs diabolical mind experiments, turning them into mindless automatons directed by a Read More

Savage Messiah

Actors: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough

Synopsis: Based on the book of the same name by H.S. Ede, eccentric director Ken Russell created this biographical drama of a great early 20th century artist who died tragically young. Henri Gaudier (Scott Anthony) is only 18 years old, a self-taught Parisian sculptor of enormous talent but prone to rash Read More

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Actors: David Baillie, Peter Clay, Sarah Long, Mark York, Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher, Frances Cuka

Synopsis: Henry VIII and His Six Wives is a feature film based upon the 1971 BBC miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Keith Michell weathers several makeup changes as the much-married titular monarch. While the miniseries was able to explore the political and personal reasons for the selection (and Read More

The Go-Between

Actors: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Michael Gough

Synopsis: The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues their exploration of class rituals and the darker recesses of desire. Pinter's script adapts the 1953 L.P. Hartley novel about Leo Colston, a middle-aged man (Michael Read More

Julius Caesar

Actors: Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, Jr., John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: