Lloyd Gough
Lloyd Gough
Red-haired character-actor Michael Gough was brought to Hollywood in 1948 after 14 years on Broadway. Gough's burgeoning film career was cut short when he was blacklisted on the basis of alleged communist ties; likewise prohibited from working in films was Gough's wife, Karen Morley. The most immediate effect of Gough's blacklisting occurred in the opening titles of RKO's Rancho Notorious (1952); though Gough was prominently cast as the film's principal villain, RKO head man Howard Hughes, a rabid commie-hater, demanded that the actor's name be removed from the credits. Gough retreated to the stage, returning before the cameras in the 1960s, by which time Hollywood's witch-hunt mentality had dissipated. One of his first "comeback" roles was as Michael Axford in the 1966 TV series The Green Hornet. In the 1976 film The Front, Lloyd Gough was reunited with several other former blacklistees, including actors Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi and Joshua Shelley, director Martin Ritt and screenwriter Walter Bernstein. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Lloyd Gough:
- Tulsa with Susan Hayward , Robert Preston , Pedro Sr. Armendariz , Chill Wills , Ed Sr. Begley , Jimmy Conlin , Harry T. Shannon , Pierre Watkin , Lola Albright , Charles D. Brown , Paul E. Burns , Lane R. Chandler , Iron Eyes Cody , Joseph Crehan , John Dehner , Fred Graham , Selmer Jackson , Larry Keating , Nolan Leary , Dick Wessel , Chief Yowlachie , Tom Dugan
- Sunset Boulevard with William Holden , Gloria Swanson , Erich vonStroheim , Nancy Olson , Fred Clark , Franklin Farnum , Cecil B. DeMille , Gertrude Astor , Ruth Clifford , Julia Faye , Al Ferguson , Creighton Hale , John "Skins" Miller , Bert Moorhouse , Ottola Nesmith , Eva Novak , Robert Emmett O'Connor , Archie Twitchell , E. Mason Hopper , Frank O'Connor , Jack Webb , Howard J. Negley
- Madigan with Richard Widmark , Henry Fonda , Inger Stevens , Harry Guardino , James Whitmore , Susan Clark , Michael Dunn , Steve Ihnat , Don Stroud , Sheree North , Conrad Bain , Henry Beckman , Harry Bellaver , Bert Freed , Virginia Gregg , Lincoln Kilpatrick , John McLiam , Ray Montgomery , Woodrow Parfrey , Raymond St. Jacques , Warren Stevens
- Earthquake with Charlton Heston , Ava Gardner , George Kennedy , Lorne Greene , Genevieve Bujold , Richard Roundtree , Pedro Jr. Armendariz , Gabriel Dell , Marjoe Gortner , Walter Matthau , Donald Moffat , George Murdock , Lloyd Nolan , Victoria Principal , John Randolph , Barry Sullivan , Jesse Vint
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