Born to British parents in Malaya, Michael Gough received classical training at the Old Vic Theater, where he made his stage debut in 1936. He acted on Broadway the following year, inaugurating a distinguished stage career on both sides of the Atlantic. Gough did not enter films until after WWII, first performing in the striking Technicolor noir melodrama, done up in period dress, "Blanche Fury" (1947). For the next decade his appearances were intermittent and primarily in historical drama, ranging from "Anna Karenina" (1948) to Laurence Olivier's adaptation of "Richard III" (1956), with Gough
