{"id":3847,"date":"2024-11-23T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T07:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:36:44","slug":"happy-birthday-michael-gough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/11\/happy-birthday-michael-gough\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Michael Gough!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">November 23, 1916 \u2013 March 17, 2011<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">British character actor Francis Michael Gough made over 150 film and television appearances, including memorable roles in films such as <em>Dracula<\/em> (1958), <em>Horrors of the Black Museum<\/em> (1959), <em>The Phantom of the Opera<\/em> (1962), <em>The Boys from Brazil<\/em> (1974), <em>Top Secret!<\/em> (1984), and <em>Out of Africa<\/em> (1985). Mr. Gough is perhaps best remembered as Bruce Wayne\u2019s butler, Alfred Pennyworth, in the Batman films of the 80s and 90s. CDF aficionados will remember him in the CDF classics \u2013 KONGA (1961), THE SKULL (1965), and TROG (1970)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-737\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Michael-Gough_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Gough photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Michael-Gough_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Michael-Gough_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Michael-Gough_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Michael-Gough_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Michael-Gough_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 23, 1916 \u2013 March 17, 2011 British character actor Francis Michael Gough made over 150 film and television appearances, including memorable roles in films such as Dracula (1958), Horrors of the Black Museum (1959), The Phantom of the Opera (1962), The Boys from Brazil (1974), Top Secret! (1984), and Out of Africa (1985). Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[273,15,7,5,6,114,32,9,202,203,272,187],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-batman","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-hammerhorror","tag-happybirthday","tag-horror","tag-konga","tag-michaelgough","tag-theskull","tag-trog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Michael-Gough_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}