
Michael Caine
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Biography
Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.) 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 Graham Norton Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

What's My Line?

The Oscars

The One Show

The Merv Griffin Show

Golden Globe Awards

Honest Trailers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Tony Awards

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Sunday Night Theatre

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

The Daily Show

Parkinson

Legends

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Death Becomes Her

The Sound of 007

Dunkirk

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Quincy

Foxhole in Cairo

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Morning Departure

Inception

The Dark Knight Rises

Now You See Me 2

Now You See Me

Come Away

Austin Powers in Goldmember

The Last Witch Hunter

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Sherlock Gnomes

Tenet

Stonehearst Asylum

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

The Cider House Rules

Blood Money

Children of Men

Jaws: The Revenge

Bewitched

The Dark Knight

Four Kids and It

Hamlet at Elsinore

The Prestige

Medieval

Interstellar

Cars 2

Mr. Destiny

Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was

Miss Congeniality

Gnomeo & Juliet

Mark Saber

World War II: When Lions Roared

Batman Begins

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Twist

Battle of Britain

The Making of Jaws The Revenge

Mandela and de Klerk

The Weather Man

Escape to Victory

Going in Style

Bullet to Beijing

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Best Sellers

The Great Escaper

Blue Ice

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

Harry Brown

Midnight in Saint Petersburg

Funeral in Berlin

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

The Italian Job

The Swarm

The Marseille Contract

Alfie

Hurry Sundown
Production Credits
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