Michael Caine

Known for ActingBorn 1933-03-14 (age 93)Rotherhithe, London, England, UK

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

Elle s'appelait Françoise

Rabbit Ears - King Midas and the Golden Touch

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

Interstellar

The Dark Knight

The Younger Generation

Blood Money

Inception

50 Films to See Before You Die

The Prestige

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey

The Dark Knight Rises

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

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

Batman Begins

Inside 'the Swarm'

Kingsman: The Secret Service

V.I.P. Schaukel

Children of Men

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

Hamlet at Elsinore

Dunkirk

Discovering Hamlet

Heath Ledger: A Tribute

Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight

Hero

The Sound of 007

Quincy

Now You See Me

Sleuth

Tenet

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Max Headroom Show

Hannah and Her Sisters

The Graham Norton Show

Secondhand Lions

The Man Who Would Be King

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

Ending the Knight

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Quills

My Generation

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Noises Off...

The Cider House Rules