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Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films over a career that spanned eight decades and is considered a British film icon.
Michael Caine. Actor: The Dark Knight. Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell.
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Michael Caine is an English actor who has appeared in over 130 films and has had multiple television appearances. Caine's acting career began in the 1950s, when he was cast in many small, often uncredited roles in British films.
YearTitleRoleDirector2023Bernard Jordan2022Lord Boresh2021Harris ShawLina Roessler2021Martin Owen- 25 'The Last Valley'
- 24 'The Ipcress File'
- 23 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'
- 22 'Zulu'
- 21 'Austin Powers in Goldmember'
- 20 'The Wrong Box'
- 19 'Deathtrap'
- 18 'The Cider House Rules'
- 17 'Mona Lisa'
- 16 'A Bridge Too Far'
Director: James Clavell
The Last Valleyis a far from perfect movie, but it is supremely underrated. It lost a sizable amount of money at the box office, and to this day still isn't particularly well-known, with its story set during the Thirty Years' War in the 1600s seemingly doomed to never find an audience. Though The Last Valley's story isn't perfectly told, and Caine's accent in the movie is - to put it mildly - ambitious. The Last Valley is gorgeously shot, and it has an unbelievably great score by John Barry....
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Though The Ipcress File was rebooted as a TV miniseriesin 2022, the original movie from 1965 shouldn't be overlooked. It was one of Michael Caine's earliest starring roles, and in it, he plays a spy who gets wrapped up in a complex plot involving scientists, kidnapping, and brainwashing. The Ipcress File is one of those deeply paranoid mystery/thriller films that can be hard to follow, but it feels that way by design, given how Caine's character is almost constantly out of his depths. It does...
Director: Frank Oz
In Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Michael Caine co-stars with Steve Martin, and two play... well, scoundrels who are both dirty and rotten. More specifically, they're both con men, and they engage in a competition with each other, with both trying to scam a wealthy heiress out of $50,000 before the other can. As far as crime movies go, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels definitely one of the more light-hearted ones out there.Still, it's quite fun to watch, with Caine and Martin making for a great pairing, and...
Director: Cy Endfield
If there's one role that can be pointed to as the one that began Michael Caine's rise in popularity, it's his performance as Lt. Gonville Bromhead in Zulu. This war movie from the 60sis based on the real-life Battle of Rorke's Drift, which took place in 1879 and saw 150 British soldiers defending a field hospital from a thousands-strong army of Zulu warriors. Within the large cast, it's Caine who stands out the most, with his performance here making it easy to understand why he became one of...
Director: Jay Roach
Fundamentally changing the way audiences viewed the series it spoofed, spy movies haven't been the same since the Austin Powers trilogy, with three films released between 1997 and 2002. While few people would say Goldmember is the best of the three, it does feature Michael Caine in a prominent role, which has to count for something. Caine's featured here as the father of the title character, and is perhaps the best addition to the cast, showcasing how (shockingly) good he is at comedy, despit...
Director: Bryan Forbes
A silly and underrated crime comedy movie, The Wrong Box isn't very well-known, but deserves to be counted among Michael Caine's best early roles. It's a darkly comedic and farcical movie that follows various family members trying to get their hands on a fortune that's set to be inherited by one of two elderly brothers - whoever outlives the other. Everything gets more ridiculous and convoluted as it goes along, with various outlandish scenarios stacking up on top of each and building, all th...
Director: Sidney Lumet
It's becoming apparent already that Michael Caine excels in crime comedies, especially ones with plenty of outlandish plot twists (1966's flawed but entertaining Gambit contains one of the best). Deathtrap isn't quite his best crime comedy role, but it's up there, with this comedic mystery/thriller doing all it can to ensure viewers won't be able to guess where it goes next. Caine plays a playwright who'll go to great lengths to steal a play written by a young and talented student (played by...
Director: Lasse Hallström
Michael Caine won his second Oscar for The Cider House Rules, where he plays the supporting role of a doctor who mentors an orphan named Homer, who's in turn trained to be a doctor. It spans a good deal of time, with the movie beginning in the 1920s and ending after World War 2, primarily serving as a coming-of-age story for Homer (Tobey Maguire). The Cider House Rules has got a fairly slow pace and feels undeniably sentimental at times, but for the kind of movie it's trying to be, it's unden...
Director: Neil Jordan
Mona Lisa (the 1986 film, not the painting) does ultimately belong to Bob Hoskins, whose lead performance earned him an Oscar nomination. Michael Caine still excels in a supporting role, though, in this film about a recently released prisoner who takes on the role of driving a high-class call girl from customer to customer. It's a neo-noir through and through, having more outwardly adult content than the film noir movies of old while retaining the style and moral ambiguity that tends to defin...
Director: Richard Attenborough
It's astounding just how many big-name actors are in A Bridge Too Far, with Michael Caine ultimately being one of many in its ensemble cast. He's joined in this World War 2 film by James Caan, Sean Connery, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, and Liv Ullmann, to name just a few. There were big names behind the camera, too, with Richard Attenborough as its director and William Goldman as its screenwriter. The large-scale film depicts 1944's Operation...
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Oct 14, 2023 · Michael Caine, the British film star whose career has spanned eight decades and featured movies from “The Italian Job” to “The Dark Knight,” has confirmed his retirement from acting. The two-time...
May 5, 2024 · Michael Caine, prolific British actor known for the affable Cockney persona present in his many versatile roles. During a multi-decade career he appeared in more than 100 films, including Alfie (1966), Get Carter (1971), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Cider House Rules (1999), and Inception (2010).
Towards the end of the decade, Michael Caine’s career began to rebound. He was becoming well recognised through his TV work, such as his stint in he 1997 miniseries “Mandela and de Klerk”.
