Michael Caine
Acting
- Born:
- 1933-03-14
- Place of birth:
- Rotherhithe, London, England, UK
Biography
Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Known for his distinctive South London accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films in a career spanning seven decades, and is considered a British film icon. As of February 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide. Often playing a Cockney, Caine made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in British films such as Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), Alfie (1966), The Italian Job (1969), and Battle of Britain (1969). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Alfie. His roles in the 1970s included Get Carter (1971), The Last Valley (1971), Sleuth (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Eagle Has Landed (1976) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He earned his second Academy Award nomination for Sleuth and achieved some of his greatest critical success in the 1980s, with Educating Rita (1983) earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) earning him his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Caine is also known for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), and for his comedic roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Miss Congeniality (2000), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and Secondhand Lions (2003). He received his second Golden Globe Award for Little Voice (1998). In 1999, he received his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a sympathetic doctor in The Cider House Rules. He portrayed a British journalist in Vietnam in The Quiet American (2002), earning his sixth Oscar nomination, and appeared in Alfonso Cuaron's dystopian drama film Children of Men (2006). Caine portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012). He appeared in several other of Nolan's films including The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014) and Tenet (2020). He also appeared in the heist thriller film Now You See Me (2013), the action comedy film Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), the Italian drama Youth (2015) and the crime film King of Thieves (2018). Caine officially confirmed his retirement from acting on 13 October 2023 after The Great Escaper (2023).
Known For
Filmography
My Life As Roger Moore
TFI Unplugged
The Great Escaper
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Dirty, Sexy & Totally Iconic
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
The Sound of 007
Medieval
Best Sellers
Twist
Come Away
Mein Name ist Connery, Sean Connery
Tenet
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Four Kids and It
An Accidental Studio
The Man Who Got Carter
Quincy
King of Thieves
Dear Dictator
Sherlock Gnomes
And the Winner Isn't
My Generation
Dunkirk
Going in Style
Now You See Me 2
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
The Last Witch Hunter
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed
Youth
Inside 'Interstellar'
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
Interstellar
Stonehearst Asylum
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Now You See Me
Ending the Knight
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
The Dark Knight Rises
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Discovering Hamlet
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
Cars 2
Gnomeo & Juliet
Wimbledon 2010 Official Film
Inception
Pinter's Progress
Harry Brown
Live from Studio Five
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
Is Anybody There?
Valentino: The Last Emperor
The Dark Knight
Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Sleuth
Flawless
British Film Forever
The Graham Norton Show
The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan
Legends
The Foreign Eye
Arte 1 Documenta
The Prestige
Children of Men
The One Show
50 Films to See Before You Die
Casting a Spell: Making 'Bewitched'
Why I Love 'Bewitched'
The Weather Man
Bewitched
Batman Begins
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Around the Bend
Parkinson
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
The Statement
Secondhand Lions
The Actors
Quicksand
The Quiet American
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Last Orders
Miss Congeniality
Quills
Get Carter
Shiner
The Cider House Rules
The Debtors
Curtain Call
Little Voice
Parkinson
Shadow Run
The View
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Mandela and de Klerk
Elle s'appelait Françoise
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
Blood and Wine
The Daily Show
TFI Friday
Bullet to Beijing
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Inside the Actors Studio
World War II: When Lions Roared
On Deadly Ground
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Late Show with David Letterman
Sean Connery: Private
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Blue Ice
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Noises Off...
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Rabbit Ears - King Midas and the Golden Touch
Bullseye!
Mr. Destiny
Night of 100 Stars III
A Shock to the System
Jekyll & Hyde
The Movie Life of George
Clive James' Postcard from
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Jack the Ripper
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Without a Clue
Surrender
Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment
Acting
Jaws: The Revenge
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
The Fourth Protocol
The Best of Max Headroom
Hero
The Whistle Blower
Half Moon Street
Mona Lisa
Sweet Liberty
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Holcroft Covenant
The Max Headroom Show
Night of 100 Stars II
Water
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Blame It on Rio
The Jigsaw Man
The Honorary Consul
Educating Rita
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Deathtrap
Late Night with David Letterman
Escape to Victory
The Hand
Dressed to Kill
The Island
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Ashanti
The Swarm
California Suite
Ciné regards
Inside 'the Swarm'
A Bridge Too Far
Silver Bears
The Eagle Has Landed
Harry and Walter Go to New York
The Man Who Would Be King
Peeper
Rickles
The Romantic Englishwoman
The Wilby Conspiracy
Dinah!
Der große Preis
The Marseille Contract
The Black Windmill
Sleuth
Pulp
Zee and Co.
Kidnapped
Film '72
V.I.P. Schaukel
Fight of the Century
Get Carter
The Last Valley
Simon Simon
Too Late the Hero
Battle of Britain
The Italian Job
Male of the Species
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Male of the Species
Play Dirty
The Magus
Deadfall
The Dick Cavett Show
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Billion Dollar Brain
Omnibus
Woman Times Seven
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Hurry Sundown
Funeral in Berlin
Gambit
The Wrong Box
Alfie
The Ipcress File
Hamlet at Elsinore
Zulu
The Wrong Arm of the Law
World in Action
The Merv Griffin Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Hobson's Choice
Solo for Sparrow
Top Deck
The Mike Douglas Show
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
The Ship That Couldn't Stop
The Younger Generation
Walk a Crooked Mile
Drama 61-67
The Bulldog Breed
Deadline Midnight
Foxhole in Cairo
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Danger Within
Passport to Shame
The Two-Headed Spy
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
The Adventures of William Tell
Blind Spot
The Key
A Woman of Mystery
Carve Her Name with Pride
How to Murder a Rich Uncle
Blood Money
A Hill in Korea
Sailor Beware
Tony Awards
ITV Play of the Week
Navy Log
The Oscars
What's My Line?
Sunday Night Theatre
Morning Departure
Golden Globe Awards
Laughs and Larrikins