Michael Caine

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).

Filmography (249 Appearances)

Laughs and Larrikins

TBA

The Great Escaper

2023

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

2023

Dirty, Sexy & Totally Iconic

2023

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

2023

The Sound of 007

2022

Medieval

2022

Best Sellers

2021

Twist

2021

Come Away

2020

Tenet

2020

Helter Skelter: An American Myth

2020

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

2020

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

2020

Four Kids and It

2020

An Accidental Studio

2019

The Man Who Got Carter

2018

Quincy

2018

King of Thieves

2018

Dear Dictator

2018

Sherlock Gnomes

2018

And the Winner Isn't

2017

My Generation

2017

Dunkirk

2017

Going in Style

2017

Now You See Me 2

2016

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

2015

The Last Witch Hunter

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015

Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed

2015

Youth

2015

Inside 'Interstellar'

2015

Kingsman: The Secret Service

2015

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey

2014

Interstellar

2014

Stonehearst Asylum

2014

Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was

2013

Mr. Morgan's Last Love

2013

Now You See Me

2013

Ending the Knight

2012

The Dark Knight Rises

2012

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

2012

Discovering Hamlet

2011

The Many Faces of... Michael Caine

2011

Cars 2

2011

Gnomeo & Juliet

2011

Wimbledon 2010 Official Film

2010

Inception

2010

Pinter's Progress

2009

Harry Brown

2009

Live from Studio Five

2009

Heath Ledger: A Tribute

2009

Is Anybody There?

2009

Valentino: The Last Emperor

2008

The Dark Knight

2008

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

2008

Sleuth

2007

Flawless

2007

The Graham Norton Show

2007

The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan

2007

Legends

2006

The Foreign Eye

2006

Arte 1 Documenta

2006

The Prestige

2006

Children of Men

2006

The One Show

2006

50 Films to See Before You Die

2006

The Weather Man

2005

Bewitched

2005

Batman Begins

2005

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

2005

Around the Bend

2004

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

2004

The Statement

2003

The Making Of 'The Italian Job'

2003

Secondhand Lions

2003

The Actors

2003

Quicksand

2003

The Quiet American

2002

Austin Powers in Goldmember

2002

Last Orders

2001

Miss Congeniality

2000

Quills

2000

Get Carter

2000

Shiner

2000

The Cider House Rules

1999

The Debtors

1999

Curtain Call

1998

Little Voice

1998

Parkinson

1998

Shadow Run

1998

The View

1997

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1997

Mandela and de Klerk

1997

Elle s'appelait Françoise

1996

Midnight in Saint Petersburg

1996

Blood and Wine

1996

The Daily Show

1996

Bullet to Beijing

1995

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

1995

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995

Inside the Actors Studio

1994

World War II: When Lions Roared

1994

On Deadly Ground

1994

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

1994

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

1993

Late Show with David Letterman

1993

Sean Connery: Private

1993

The Muppet Christmas Carol

1992

Blue Ice

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992

Noises Off...

1992

Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

Rabbit Ears - King Midas and the Golden Touch

1991

Bullseye!

1990

Mr. Destiny

1990

Night of 100 Stars III

1990

A Shock to the System

1990

Jekyll & Hyde

1990

The Movie Life of George

1989

Clive James' Postcard from

1989

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

1988

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

1988

Jack the Ripper

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

1988

Without a Clue

1988

Surrender

1987

Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment

1987

Acting

1987

Jaws: The Revenge

1987

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

1987

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987

The Fourth Protocol

1987

The Best of Max Headroom

1987

Hero

1986

The Whistle Blower

1986

Half Moon Street

1986

Mona Lisa

1986

Sweet Liberty

1986

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

The Holcroft Covenant

1985

The Max Headroom Show

1985

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

Water

1985

The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio

1985

Blame It on Rio

1984

The Jigsaw Man

1983

The Honorary Consul

1983

Educating Rita

1983

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

1983

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

1982

Deathtrap

1982

Late Night with David Letterman

1982

Escape to Victory

1981

The Hand

1981

Dressed to Kill

1980

The Island

1980

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979

Ashanti

1979

The Swarm

1978

California Suite

1978

Inside 'the Swarm'

1978

A Bridge Too Far

1977

Silver Bears

1977

The Eagle Has Landed

1976

Harry and Walter Go to New York

1976

Peeper

1975

The Man Who Would Be King

1975

Rickles

1975

The Romantic Englishwoman

1975

The Wilby Conspiracy

1975

Dinah!

1974

Der große Preis

1974

The Marseille Contract

1974

The Black Windmill

1974

Sleuth

1972

Pulp

1972

Zee and Co.

1972

Kidnapped

1971

Film '72

1971

V.I.P. Schaukel

1971

Fight of the Century

1971

Get Carter

1971

The Last Valley

1971

Simon Simon

1970

Too Late the Hero

1970

Battle of Britain

1969

The Italian Job

1969

Male of the Species

1969

Male of the Species

1969

Play Dirty

1969

The Magus

1968

Deadfall

1968

The Dick Cavett Show

1968

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1968

Billion Dollar Brain

1967

Woman Times Seven

1967

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

1967

Hurry Sundown

1967

Funeral in Berlin

1966

Gambit

1966

The Wrong Box

1966

Alfie

1966

The Ipcress File

1965

Hamlet at Elsinore

1964

Zulu

1964

The Wrong Arm of the Law

1963

World in Action

1963

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

Hobson's Choice

1962

Solo for Sparrow

1962

Top Deck

1962

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

1961

The Ship That Couldn't Stop

1961

The Younger Generation

1961

Walk a Crooked Mile

1961

Drama 61-67

1961

The Bulldog Breed

1960

Deadline Midnight

1960

Foxhole in Cairo

1960

Edgar Wallace Mysteries

1959

Danger Within

1959

Passport to Shame

1958

The Two-Headed Spy

1958

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

1958

The Adventures of William Tell

1958

Blind Spot

1958

The Key

1958

A Woman of Mystery

1958

Carve Her Name with Pride

1958

How to Murder a Rich Uncle

1957

Blood Money

1957

A Hill in Korea

1956

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

1956

Sailor Beware

1956

Tony Awards

1956

ITV Play of the Week

1955

Navy Log

1955

The Oscars

1953

What's My Line?

1950

Sunday Night Theatre

1950

Morning Departure

1946 Debut

Golden Globe Awards

1944
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