Michael Caine

Born: 1933-03-14 in Rotherhithe, London, England, UK

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2025

The Lil Peepz in Gocity - The Movie as Michael Caine

2023

The Great Escaper as Bernard Jordan
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story as Self (archive footage)
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema as Self - Actor
Dirty, Sexy & Totally Iconic as Self

2022

Medieval as Lord Boreš
The Sound of 007 as Self (archive footage)

2021

Twist as Fagin
Best Sellers as Harris Shaw

2020

Tenet as Crosby
Come Away as Charlie
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault as (archive footage)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis as Self
Helter Skelter: An American Myth as Self (archive footage)
Four Kids and It as Psammead (voice)

2019

An Accidental Studio as Self (archive footage)

2018

Dear Dictator as General Anton Vincent
Sherlock Gnomes as Lord Redbrick (voice)
King of Thieves as Brian Reader
Quincy as Self
The Man Who Got Carter as Self

2017

Dunkirk as Voice on Radio (uncredited)
My Generation as Self
Going in Style as Joe Harding
And the Winner Isn't as Self

2016

Now You See Me 2 as Arthur Tressler

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
Kingsman: The Secret Service as Arthur
The Last Witch Hunter as Dolan 36th
Inside 'Interstellar' as Self / Professor Brand
Youth as Fred Ballinger
Kingsman: The Secret Service Revealed as Self
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)

2014

Interstellar as Professor Brand
Stonehearst Asylum as Dr. Benjamin Salt
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey as Self
The Double ... (Executive Producer)

2013

Now You See Me as Arthur Tressler
Mr. Morgan's Last Love as Matthew Morgan
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was

2012

The Dark Knight Rises as Alfred
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island as Alexander Anderson
Ending the Knight as Self

2011

Cars 2 as Finn McMissile (voice)
Gnomeo & Juliet as Lord Redbrick (voice)
Discovering Hamlet as Horatio (archive footage)
The Many Faces of... Michael Caine

2004

Around the Bend as Henry Lair
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)

2003

The Statement as Pierre Brossard
Secondhand Lions as Garth
Quicksand as Jake Mellows
The Actors as Anthony O'Malley
The Making Of 'The Italian Job'

2002

Austin Powers in Goldmember as Nigel Powers
The Quiet American as Thomas Fowler

2001

Last Orders as Jack

2000

Quills as Dr. Royer-Collard
Get Carter as Cliff Brumby
Miss Congeniality as Victor Melling
Shiner as Billy 'Shiner' Simpson

1999

The Debtors
The Cider House Rules as Dr. Wilbur Larch

1998

Shadow Run as Haskell
Little Voice as Ray Say
Parkinson as Self
Curtain Call as Max Gale

1997

The View as Self
Mandela and de Klerk as F.W. de Klerk
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as Captain Nemo

1996

The Daily Show as Self
Blood and Wine as Victor
Midnight in Saint Petersburg as Harry Palmer
Elle s'appelait Françoise as Self

1995

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self
Bullet to Beijing as Harry Palmer

1994

On Deadly Ground as Michael Jennings
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold as Self
World War II: When Lions Roared as Joseph V. Stalin
Inside the Actors Studio as Self

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
Sean Connery: Private as Self
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
The Muppet Christmas Carol as Scrooge
Blue Ice as Harry Anders
Noises Off... as Lloyd Fellowes

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
Rabbit Ears - King Midas and the Golden Touch as Narrator (voice)

1990

Bullseye! as Sidney Lipton / Doctor Hicklar
Mr. Destiny as Mike
A Shock to the System as Graham Marshall
Night of 100 Stars III as Self
Jekyll & Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde

1989

The Movie Life of George as Self
Clive James' Postcard from as Self

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Without a Clue as Sherlock Holmes
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as Lawrence Jamieson
Jack the Ripper as Inspector Frederick Abberline
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self - Host

1987

Surrender as Sean Stein
Jaws: The Revenge as Hoagie Newcombe
The Fourth Protocol as John Preston
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
The Best of Max Headroom as Self
Acting
The Making of Jaws The Revenge as Self
Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment as Self

1986

Sweet Liberty as Elliott James
Mona Lisa as Mortwell
Hero as Narrator (voice)
Hannah and Her Sisters as Elliot
Half Moon Street as Lord Sam Bulbeck
The Whistle Blower as Frank Jones

1985

The Holcroft Covenant as Noel Holcroft
The Max Headroom Show as Self
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio as Self - Host
Water as Governor Baxter Thwaites
Night of 100 Stars II as Self

1984

Blame It on Rio as Matthew Hollis

1983

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life as British Soldier (uncredited) (segment "Fighting Each Other")
Educating Rita as Dr. Frank Bryant
The Honorary Consul as Charley Fortnum
The Jigsaw Man as Philip Kimberley / Sergei Kuzminsky

1982

Deathtrap as Sidney Bruhl

1981

The Hand as Jonathan Lansdale
Escape to Victory as Captain John Colby

1980

The Island as Blair Maynard
Dressed to Kill as Doctor Robert Elliott

1979

Ashanti as Dr. David Linderby
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure as Captain Mike Turner

1978

The Swarm as Brad Crane
California Suite as Sidney Cochran
Inside 'the Swarm' as Self

1977

A Bridge Too Far as Lt. Col. John O.E. Vandeleur
Silver Bears as Doc Fletcher

1976

The Eagle Has Landed as Col. Kurt Steiner
Harry and Walter Go to New York as Adam Worth

1975

Peeper as Leslie C. Tucker
The Man Who Would Be King as Peachy Carnehan
The Wilby Conspiracy as Jim Keogh
Rickles
The Romantic Englishwoman as Lewis

1974

Dinah! as Self
The Black Windmill as Maj. John Tarrant
Der große Preis as Self
The Marseille Contract as John Deray / John Davos

1972

Pulp as Mickey King
Zee and Co. as Robert Blakeley
Sleuth as Milo Tindle

1971

Get Carter as Jack Carter
Kidnapped as Alan Breck
V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
Fight of the Century as Self-(Audience Member)
Film '72 as Self
The Last Valley as The Captain

1970

Simon Simon as Michael Caine
Too Late the Hero as Pvt. Tosh Hearne

1969

Battle of Britain as Squadron Leader Canfield
Play Dirty as Capt. Douglas
The Italian Job as Charlie Croker
Male of the Species as Cornelius
Male of the Species as Cornelius

1968

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
The Magus as Nicholas Urfe
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
Deadfall as Henry

1967

Hurry Sundown as Henry Warren
Billion Dollar Brain as Harry Palmer
Woman Times Seven as Handsome Stranger
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self

1966

Gambit as Harry
Funeral in Berlin as Harry Palmer
The Wrong Box as Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury
Alfie as Alfie Elkins

1965

The Ipcress File as Harry Palmer

1964

Zulu as Lt. Gonville Bromhead
Hamlet at Elsinore as Horatio

1963

The Wrong Arm of the Law as Police Officer (uncredited)

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
The Merv Griffin Show as Self
Solo for Sparrow as Paddy Mooney
Hobson's Choice as Willie Mossop
Top Deck as Bus driver (uncredited)

1961

The Mike Douglas Show as Self
The Day the Earth Caught Fire as Checkpoint Policeman (uncredited)
The Ship That Couldn't Stop as Helmsman
The Younger Generation as Ray the Raver
Walk a Crooked Mile as Police constable

1960

Foxhole in Cairo as Weber
The Bulldog Breed as Sailor in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
Deadline Midnight as Ted Drake

1959

Danger Within as Prisoner with Pin-Up (uncredited)
Edgar Wallace Mysteries as Paddy Mooney

1958

Blind Spot as Johnny Brent
The Key as Seaman (uncredited)
The Two-Headed Spy as Gestapo Agent
The Adventures of William Tell as Max
Carve Her Name with Pride as Train Prisoner (uncredited)
Passport to Shame as Bridegroom (uncredited)
A Woman of Mystery as Joe (Uncredited)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

1957

Blood Money as Fighter
How to Murder a Rich Uncle as Gilrony

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
Sailor Beware as Sailor (Uncredited)
A Hill in Korea as Pvt. Lockyer
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot as Knight
Armchair Theatre as Helmsman

1955

Navy Log
ITV Play of the Week as Willie Mossop

1954

Mark Saber as Folsham

1953

The Oscars as Self

1950

What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
Sunday Night Theatre as Fighter

1946

Morning Departure as Teaboy

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter