Alfred Gough

Biography

Alfred Gough (/ˈɡɒf/ GOF; born August 22, 1967) is an American screenwriter, producer, writer, director, showrunner and creator. He is the developer of The WB/The CW's Superman-prequel television series Smallville. Alongside longtime writing/producing partner Miles Millar, Gough co-created other television programs like AMC's 2015 wuxia-influenced dystopian television series Into the Badlands, MTV's 2016 epic fantasy television series The Shannara Chronicles (based on The Sword of Shannara Trilogy book trilogy by Terry Brooks) and Netflix's Wednesday, the Tim Burton-helmed Addams Family spin-off. Among his feature film credits he wrote or produced are Shanghai Noon and its sequel Shanghai Knights, Spider-Man 2, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Hannah Montana: The Movie and Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfred Gough, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.