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 after The Great Escaper (2023).

Filmography

2026

TFI Unplugged as Self (Archive Footage)

2023

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

2022

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

2021

Best Sellers as Harris Shaw
Twist as Fagin

2020

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

2019

An Accidental Studio as Self (archive footage)

2018

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

2017

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

2016

WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews as Self - Guest
Now You See Me 2 as Arthur Tressler

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
Kingsman: The Secret Service as Arthur
The Last Witch Hunter as Dolan 36th
Youth as Fred Ballinger
Inside 'Interstellar' as Self / Professor Brand
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
The Double ... (Executive Producer)
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey as Self

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
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music as Charlie Croker (archive footage)

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 Italian Job as Alfie (archive footage)
Secondhand Lions as Garth
The Statement as Pierre Brossard
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

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

1999

The Cider House Rules as Dr. Wilbur Larch
The Debtors

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

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

1992

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

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

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
Bullseye! as Sidney Lipton / Doctor Hicklar

1989

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

1988

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

1987

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

1986

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

1985

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

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

Late Night with David Letterman as Self - Guest
Deathtrap as Sidney Bruhl
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

1981

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

1980

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

1979

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

1978

Ciné regards as Self
California Suite as Sidney Cochran
The Swarm as Brad Crane
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

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

1974

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

1972

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

1971

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

1970

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

1969

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

1968

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

1967

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

1966

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

1965

The Ipcress File as Harry Palmer

1964

Zulu as Lt. Gonville Bromhead
Hamlet at Elsinore as Horatio

1963

World in Action
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
Top Deck as Bus driver (uncredited)
Hobson's Choice as Willie Mossop

1961

The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Guest
Drama 61-67 as Arthur Green
The Younger Generation as Ray the Raver
The Day the Earth Caught Fire as Checkpoint Policeman (uncredited)
Walk a Crooked Mile as Police constable
The Ship That Couldn't Stop as Helmsman

1960

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

1959

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

1958

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

1957

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

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
A Hill in Korea as Pvt. Lockyer
Sailor Beware as Sailor (Uncredited)

1955

ITV Play of the Week as Willie Mossop
Navy Log

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