Michael Caine

Known For

Acting

Born

Mar 14, 1933

Place of Birth

Rotherhithe, London, England, UK

Credits

260 titles

Michael Caine

Biography

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).

Known For

Filmography

2026

TFI Unplugged

Self (Archive Footage)

Tv
2023

The Great Escaper

Bernard Jordan

Movie
2023

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2023

Dirty, Sexy & Totally Iconic

Self

Movie
2023

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

Self - Actor / Narrator (voice)

Movie
2022

The Sound of 007

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2022

Medieval

Lord Boreš

Movie
2021

Best Sellers

Harris Shaw

Movie
2021

Twist

Fagin

Movie
2020

Come Away

Charlie

Movie
2020

Tenet

Crosby

Movie
2020

Helter Skelter: An American Myth

Self (archive footage)

Tv
2020

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

Self

Movie
2020

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

(archive footage)

Movie
2020

Four Kids and It

Psammead (voice)

Movie
2019

An Accidental Studio

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2018

The Man Who Got Carter

Self

Movie
2018

Quincy

Self

Movie
2018

King of Thieves

Brian Reader

Movie
2018

Dear Dictator

General Anton Vincent

Movie
2018

Sherlock Gnomes

Lord Redbrick (voice)

Movie
2017

And the Winner Isn't

Self

Movie
2017

My Generation

Self

Movie
2017

Dunkirk

Voice on Radio (uncredited)

Movie
2017

Going in Style

Joe Harding

Movie
2016

Now You See Me 2

Arthur Tressler

Movie
2016

WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews

Tv
2015

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

Self (archive footage)

Movie
2015

The Last Witch Hunter

Dolan 36th

Movie
2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self - Guest

Tv
2015

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Self

Tv
2015

Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed

Self

Movie
2015

Youth

Fred Ballinger

Movie
2015

Inside 'Interstellar'

Self / Professor Brand

Movie
2015

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Arthur

Movie
2014

Interstellar

Professor Brand

Movie
2014

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey

Self

Movie
2014

Stonehearst Asylum

Dr. Benjamin Salt

Movie
2014

The Double

Executive Producer

Movie
2013

Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was

Movie
2013

Mr. Morgan's Last Love

Matthew Morgan

Movie
2013

Now You See Me

Arthur Tressler

Movie
2012

Ending the Knight

Self

Movie
2012

London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music

Charlie Croker (archive footage)

Movie
2012

The Dark Knight Rises

Alfred

Movie
2012

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

Alexander Anderson

Movie
2011

Discovering Hamlet

Horatio (archive footage)

Movie
2011

The Many Faces of... Michael Caine

Movie
2011

Cars 2

Finn McMissile (voice)

Movie
2011

Gnomeo & Juliet

Lord Redbrick (voice)

Movie