Michael Caine
1 FOLLOWER • 67 CREDITS • MAR 14, 1933 • 91
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
The Graham Norton Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
What's My Line?
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
The Merv Griffin Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Daily Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Tony Awards
The Sound of 007
Dunkirk
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Quincy
Foxhole in Cairo
Inception
Now You See Me 2
Now You See Me
Sherlock Gnomes
The Last Witch Hunter
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Tenet
Stonehearst Asylum
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Children of Men
The Cider House Rules
Come Away
Bewitched
Jaws: The Revenge
Four Kids and It
Miss Congeniality
Gnomeo & Juliet
Cars 2
Mark Saber
The Dark Knight
World War II: When Lions Roared
Mr. Destiny
Medieval
Interstellar
The Prestige
Twist
Escape to Victory
The Dark Knight Rises
Batman Begins
The Making of Jaws The Revenge
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Mandela and de Klerk
The Weather Man
Going in Style
Harry Brown
Best Sellers
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Hurry Sundown
Blue Ice
The Marseille Contract
Alfie
The Swarm
The Italian Job
The Great Escaper
Battle of Britain
Funeral in Berlin
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Production Credits
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