Over the years, Michael Gow Goo Gup Gough has worked steadily, more so than those on the western side of the Atlantic might realize, because he's as busy on stage and television as in films. He even appeared, many years apart, in two sets of episodes of Doctor Who. He found the first, "The Celestial Toymaker," to be "very hard work, very difficult indeed. I had to remember all these numbers. I played someone called the Celestial Toymaker, and had to remember all these ridiculous numbers! I was doing a play at the time, so that made it harder to learn the lines—it was torture. I couldn't look at the show myself, you see, but someone saw it. I told them how much pain it was, and they said. 'It didn't show. You looked absolutely confident. You come out with all the numbers.' Gough sighs. "Someone will write them down someday, and find out I was all wrong.
He actually doesn't remember the later Doctor Who he appeared in anywhere near as well. "I just cannot remember. Someone sent me a list of my films, and asked me to add the ones not on the list. There were more than 80 films. And that was three years ago, and I've done quite a number since then. And there has been a lot of theater and television. I've got a very simple brain; I've got an intelligent face, and nothing between the ears at all Perhaps that's why the scientists Gough has played have tended to be mad.
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