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Michael Caine

Born 1933-03-14

📍 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).

Filmography 240

as Self (Archive Footage)

The Great Escaper

as Bernard Jordan

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

as Self (archive footage)

Dirty, Sexy & Totally Iconic

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

as Self - Actor / Narrator (voice)

The Sound of 007

as Self (archive footage)

Helter Skelter: An American Myth

as Self (archive footage)

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

as (archive footage)

Four Kids and It

as Psammead (voice)

An Accidental Studio

as Self (archive footage)

The Man Who Got Carter

King of Thieves

as Brian Reader

as General Anton Vincent

Sherlock Gnomes

as Lord Redbrick (voice)

And the Winner Isn't

as Voice on Radio (uncredited)

Now You See Me 2

as Arthur Tressler

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

The Last Witch Hunter

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self - Guest

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed

as Fred Ballinger

Inside 'Interstellar'

as Self / Professor Brand

Kingsman: The Secret Service

as Professor Brand

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey

Stonehearst Asylum

as Dr. Benjamin Salt

Mr. Morgan's Last Love

as Matthew Morgan

as Arthur Tressler

Ending the Knight

The Dark Knight Rises

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

as Alexander Anderson

Discovering Hamlet

as Horatio (archive footage)

as Finn McMissile (voice)

Gnomeo & Juliet

as Lord Redbrick (voice)

Wimbledon 2010 Official Film

as Stephen Miles

Pinter's Progress

Live from Studio Five

Heath Ledger: A Tribute

Is Anybody There?

Valentino: The Last Emperor

The Dark Knight

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

as Self (archive footage)

The Graham Norton Show

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

as Self (archive footage)

The Foreign Eye

Children of Men

as Self - Guest

50 Films to See Before You Die

The Weather Man

as Robert Spritzel

as Nigel Bigelow

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Around the Bend

Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild

as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)

as Pierre Brossard

The Making Of 'The Italian Job'

Secondhand Lions

as Anthony O'Malley

as Jake Mellows

The Quiet American

as Thomas Fowler

Austin Powers in Goldmember

as Nigel Powers

Miss Congeniality

as Victor Melling

as Dr. Royer-Collard

as Cliff Brumby

as Billy 'Shiner' Simpson

The Cider House Rules

as Dr. Wilbur Larch

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

as Captain Nemo

Mandela and de Klerk

as F.W. de Klerk

Elle s'appelait Françoise

Midnight in Saint Petersburg

as Harry Palmer

as Self - Guest

Bullet to Beijing

as Harry Palmer

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Inside the Actors Studio

World War II: When Lions Roared

as Joseph V. Stalin

On Deadly Ground

as Michael Jennings

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

Late Show with David Letterman

as Self - Guest

Sean Connery: Private

The Muppet Christmas Carol

as Ebenezer Scrooge

as Harry Anders

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

as Lloyd Fellowes

Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Rabbit Ears - King Midas and the Golden Touch

as Narrator (voice)

as Sidney Lipton / Doctor Hicklar

Night of 100 Stars III

A Shock to the System

as Graham Marshall

as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

The Movie Life of George

Clive James' Postcard from

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

as Lawrence Jamieson

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Jack the Ripper

as Inspector Frederick Abberline

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

as Sherlock Holmes

Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment

Jaws: The Revenge

as Hoagie Newcombe

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

The Fourth Protocol

as John Preston

The Best of Max Headroom

as Narrator (voice)

The Whistle Blower

Half Moon Street

as Lord Sam Bulbeck

as Elliott James

Hannah and Her Sisters

The Holcroft Covenant

as Noel Holcroft

The Max Headroom Show

Night of 100 Stars II

as Governor Baxter Thwaites

Blame It on Rio

as Matthew Hollis

as Philip Kimberley / Sergei Kuzminsky

The Honorary Consul

as Charley Fortnum

as Dr. Frank Bryant

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

as British Soldier (uncredited) (segment "Fighting Each Other")

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

as Sidney Bruhl

Late Night with David Letterman

as Self - Guest

Escape to Victory

as Captain John Colby

as Jonathan Lansdale

Dressed to Kill

as Doctor Robert Elliott

as Blair Maynard

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

as Captain Mike Turner

as Dr. David Linderby

California Suite

as Sidney Cochran

Inside 'the Swarm'

A Bridge Too Far

as Lt. Col. John O.E. Vandeleur

as Doc Fletcher

The Eagle Has Landed

as Col. Kurt Steiner

Harry and Walter Go to New York

The Man Who Would Be King

as Peachy Carnehan

as Leslie C. Tucker

The Romantic Englishwoman

The Wilby Conspiracy

The Marseille Contract

as John Deray / John Davos

The Black Windmill

as Maj. John Tarrant

as Robert Blakeley

Fight of the Century

as Self-(Audience Member)

The Last Valley

as Michael Caine

Too Late the Hero

as Pvt. Tosh Hearne

Battle of Britain

as Squadron Leader Canfield

The Italian Job

as Charlie Croker

Male of the Species

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Male of the Species

as Capt. Douglas

as Nicholas Urfe

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self (uncredited)

Billion Dollar Brain

as Harry Palmer

Woman Times Seven

as Handsome Stranger

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

as Henry Warren

Funeral in Berlin

as Harry Palmer

as Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury

as Alfie Elkins

The Ipcress File

as Harry Palmer

Hamlet at Elsinore

as Lt. Gonville Bromhead

The Wrong Arm of the Law

as Police Officer (uncredited)

World in Action

The Merv Griffin Show

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Hobson's Choice

as Willie Mossop

Solo for Sparrow

as Paddy Mooney

as Bus driver (uncredited)

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Guest

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

as Checkpoint Policeman (uncredited)

The Bulldog Breed

as Sailor in Cinema Fight (uncredited)

Foxhole in Cairo

Edgar Wallace Mysteries

as Paddy Mooney

as Prisoner with Pin-Up (uncredited)

Passport to Shame

as Bridegroom (uncredited)

The Two-Headed Spy

as Gestapo Agent

The Adventures of William Tell

as Johnny Brent

as Seaman (uncredited)

A Woman of Mystery

as Joe (Uncredited)

Carve Her Name with Pride

as Train Prisoner (uncredited)

How to Murder a Rich Uncle

A Hill in Korea

as Pvt. Lockyer

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

as Sailor (Uncredited)

as Self - Presenter

ITV Play of the Week

as Willie Mossop

What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

Sunday Night Theatre

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee/Presenter

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee / Presenter

Laughs and Larrikins