Michael Caine
Michael Caine
Biography
Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.; March 14, 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.
Known For
Actor
as Michael Crosby (Tenet)
as Self - Actor, Hurry Sundown (archive footage)
as Bernard Jordan
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self - Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Lord Boreš
as Harris Shaw
as Fagin
as Charlie
as Crosby
as Psammead (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Brian Reader
as General Anton Vincent
as Lord Redbrick (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Voice on Radio (uncredited)
as Joe Harding
as Arthur Tressler
as Self (archive footage)
as Dolan 36th
as Fred Ballinger
as Self / Professor Brand
as Arthur
as Professor Brand
as Self
as Dr. Benjamin Salt
as Self (archive footage)
as Matthew Morgan
as Arthur Tressler
as Self
as Alfred
as Alexander Anderson
as Horatio (archive footage)
as Finn McMissile (voice)
as Lord Redbrick (voice)
as Self
as Stephen Miles
as Self
as Harry Brown
as Self
as Clarence
as Self
as Self
as Alfred
as Self (archive footage)
as Andrew Wyke
as Mr. Hobbs
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Cutter
as Jasper
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Guest
as Robert Spritzel
as Nigel Bigelow
as Alfred
as Henry Lair
as Pierre Brossard
as Garth
as Anthony O'Malley
as Jake Mellows
as Thomas Fowler
as Nigel Powers
as Jack
as Victor Melling
as Dr. Royer-Collard
as Cliff Brumby
as Billy 'Shiner' Simpson
as Dr. Wilbur Larch
as Max Gale
as Ray Say
as Haskell
as Self
as F.W. de Klerk
as Self
as Captain Nemo
as Self
as Harry Palmer
as Victor
as Self
as Harry Palmer
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Michael Jennings
as Self
as Self
as Joseph V. Stalin
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Scrooge
as Harry Anders
as Michael Caine (uncredited)
as Lloyd Fellowes
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Sidney Lipton / Doctor Hicklar
as Mike
as Self
as Graham Marshall
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
as Self
as Lawrence Jamieson
as Self - Host
as Sherlock Holmes
as Inspector Frederick Abberline
as Sean Stein
as Hoagie Newcombe
as Self
as John Preston
as Narrator (voice)
as Frank Jones
as Lord Sam Bulbeck
as Mortwell
as Elliott James
as Elliot
as Noel Holcroft
as Self
as Governor Baxter Thwaites
as Matthew Hollis
as Philip Kimberley / Sergei Kuzminsky
as Charley Fortnum
as Dr. Frank Bryant
as British Soldier (uncredited) (segment "Fighting Each Other")
as Sidney Bruhl
as Captain John Colby
as Jonathan Lansdale
as Doctor Robert Elliott
as Blair Maynard
as Captain Mike Turner
as Dr. David Linderby
as Sidney Cochran
as Brad Crane
as Self
as Lt. Col. John O.E. Vandeleur
as Doc Fletcher
as Col. Kurt Steiner
as Adam Worth
as Peachy Carnehan
as Leslie C. Tucker
as Lewis
as Jim Keogh
as John Deray / John Davos
as Maj. John Tarrant
as Self
as Self
as Milo Tindle
as Mickey King
as Alan Breck
as Robert Blakeley
as Self-(Audience Member)
as Jack Carter
as The Captain
as Self
as Michael Caine
as Pvt. Tosh Hearne
as Squadron Leader Canfield
as Charlie Croker
as Cornelius
as Capt. Douglas
as Cornelius
as Nicholas Urfe
as Henry
as Self - Guest
as Harry Palmer
as Handsome Stranger
as Henry Warren
as Self
as Harry Palmer
as Harry
as Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury
as Alfie Elkins
as Harry Palmer
as Horatio
as Lt. Gonville Bromhead
as Police Officer (uncredited)
as Willie Mossop
as Paddy Mooney
as Bus driver (uncredited)
as Self
as Checkpoint Policeman (uncredited)
as Self
as Police constable
as Sailor in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
as Weber
as Ted Drake
as Prisoner with Pin-Up (uncredited)
as Paddy Mooney
as Bridegroom (uncredited)
as Gestapo Agent
as Johnny Brent
as Seaman (uncredited)
as Train Prisoner (uncredited)
as Gilrony
as Fighter
as Pvt. Lockyer
as Sailor (Uncredited)
as Knight
as Helmsman
as Self - Presenter
as Willie Mossop
as Folsham
as Self
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Fighter
as Teaboy
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Winner
as Self - Nominee/Presenter
Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer