
Michael Caine
3 FOLLOWERS • 70 CREDITS • MAR 14, 1933 • 92
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 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

What's My Line?

The Oscars

The Graham Norton Show

The Merv Griffin Show

Golden Globe Awards

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Tony Awards

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

The Daily Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Death Becomes Her

The Sound of 007

Dunkirk

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Quincy

Foxhole in Cairo

Inception

Now You See Me 2

The Dark Knight Rises

Now You See Me

The Last Witch Hunter

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Sherlock Gnomes

Stonehearst Asylum

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Tenet

Children of Men

The Cider House Rules

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

Four Kids and It

Jaws: The Revenge

Bewitched

The Dark Knight

Come Away

Mr. Destiny

Mark Saber

World War II: When Lions Roared

Gnomeo & Juliet

Miss Congeniality

Interstellar

Cars 2

The Prestige

Medieval

Batman Begins

Twist

Mandela and de Klerk

Going in Style

The Weather Man

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

Escape to Victory

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

The Swarm

Hurry Sundown

Battle of Britain

Funeral in Berlin

Best Sellers

Harry Brown

Alfie

The Great Escaper

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Blue Ice

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Marseille Contract

The Italian Job

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
Production Credits
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