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Michael Gough
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Actor Born: November 23, 1917 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya Biography:Born in Malaya to British parents, "Michael Gough" attended Wye Agricultural College before realigning his career goals by taking classes at the Old Vic. Gough made his first theatrical appearance in 1936 and his first film in 1948. He lists King Lear as his favorite stage role, though one suspects that he is equally fond of the character he portrayed in the 1979 Broadway hit Bedroom Farce, for which he won the Tony Award. Movie historian Bill Warren has noted that Gough has, by accident or design, adopted two distinct film-acting styles. In such "straight" roles as Montrose in "Rob Roy" (1954), Norfolk in "Henry VIII and His Six Wives" (1972), Van der Luyden in "The Age of Innocence" (1993) and Bertrand Russell in "Wittgenstein" (1993), he is subtle and restrained; but when starring in such scarefests as "Horrors of the Black Museum" (1959) and "Black Zoo" (1962), his eye-bulging hamminess knows no... Full Biography
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