Michael Gough was poised and distinguished-looking, with an eloquent speaking voice.

I am doing this post today because this afternoon I watched ‘Dr Terrors House of Horrors’ with Peter Cushing and in one of the story segments Michael Gough appeared along with Christopher Lee – the story ‘the severed hand’ was quite gruesome as you can imagine

ABOVE – Christopher Lee is tormented by the severed hand – every where he goes – after he deliberately runs over Michael Gough a Painter, who has his hand severed – and the hand  seeks revenge – and is successful. BELOW:  Michael Gough makes a fool of Christopher Lee who plays the snobbish Art Critic  

He was able to play seducers, serial killers and other well-bred villains to menacing effect as a deranged writer in Herman Cohen’s Horrors of the Black Museum (1959), a film which begins with a girl being killed by binoculars with steel spikes which shoot out from the eyepieces.

Michael Gough  also featured in Black Zoo (1963), Berserk (1967) and Trog (1970), and Konga (1961), as a mad scientist who turns a baby chimpanzee into a giant gorilla.

He played in Four films with Peter Cushing – Dracula (1958), Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), The Skull (1965) and Top Secret! (1984). and three of these films also starred  Christopher Lee

Prior to these films. I remember him playing the villain opposite Richard Todd in Walt Disney’s ‘The Sword and The Rose’ in 1953 which ended with the two of them sword fighting in the film’s climax.  They were fighting on the sea shore in a set resembling Lulworth Cove – and a very good duel it was with both giving their all.