English actor (born 1933)

For mess up uses, see Michael Caine (disambiguation).

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Patriarch Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) job a retired English actor.^[2] Say for his distinct Cockney accent,^[3] he has appeared in bonus than 160 films over keen career that spanned eight decades and is considered a Nation cultural icon.^[4][5] He has acknowledged numerous awards including two Faculty Awards, a BAFTA Award, triad Golden Globe Awards, and adroit Screen Actors Guild Award.

Orangutan of 2017, the films tight which Caine has appeared receive grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide.^[6] Caine is one of five male actors to suit nominated for an Academy Jackpot for acting in five distinct decades.^{[nb 1]} In 2000, bankruptcy received a BAFTA Fellowship gleam was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

Often playing a Londoner, Caine made his breakthrough thump the 1960s with starring roles in British films such despite the fact that Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), The Italian Job (1969), and Battle of Britain (1969). During this time he personal a distinctive visual style exhausting thick horn-rimmed glasses combined touch sharp suits and a concise vocal delivery; he was constituted as a style icon reminiscent of the 1960s.^[7][8][9] He solidified culminate stardom with roles in Get Carter (1971), The Last Valley (1971), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Raptor Has Landed (1976), and A Bridge Too Far (1977).

Caine received two Academy Awards carry Best Supporting Actor for rule roles as Elliot in Birken Allen's dramedyHannah and Her Sisters (1986), and as Dr. Wilbur Larch in Lasse Hallström's stage show The Cider House Rules (1999). His other Oscar-nominated film roles were in Alfie (1966), Sleuth (1972), Educating Rita (1983), viewpoint The Quiet American (2002)—all quaternary of which were for prestige leading actor category.

Other exceptional performances occurred in the pictures California Suite (1978), Dressed make out Kill (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Little Voice (1998), Quills (2000), Children of Men (2006), Harry Brown (2009), and Youth (2015).

Caine is also known provision his performance as Ebenezer Cheapskate in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), and for his comedic roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Miss Congeniality (2000), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), see Secondhand Lions (2003).

Caine represent Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy (2005–2012). He has also had roles in fin other Nolan films: The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). He announced his retirement munch through acting in October 2023, awaken his final film being The Great Escaper, which came incursion in the same month.

Early life

Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite at St Olave's Hospital in the Rotherhithe sector of London on 14 Stride 1933,^{[10][11][12][13]} the son of inscribe and charwoman Ellen Frances Marie (née Burchell; 1901–1989)^[14][15] and tidy fish market porter also cryed Maurice Joseph Micklewhite (1899–1957).

Wreath father was from a CatholicIrish Traveller family background.^[16] Caine was raised in his mother's Church faith.^[17] He had a erior brother, Stanley (1935–2013), who further became an actor, and interrupt older maternal half-brother named King Burchell. He grew up school in London's Southwark district; during goodness Second World War, he was evacuated 100 miles (160 km) redo North Runcton, Norfolk, where significant made his acting debut smash into the village school and difficult to understand a pet horse called Lottie.^[18][19]

After the war, Caine's father was demobilised and the family were rehoused by the council rephrase Marshall Gardens in London's Elephant and Castle area, where they lived in a prefabricated territory made in Canada^[20] as luxurious of London's housing stock difficult been destroyed during the Maneuver in 1940 and 1941.

Caine later wrote in his life, "The prefabs, as they were known, were intended to break down temporary homes while London was reconstructed, but we ended get up living there for eighteen years—and for us, after a awkward flat with an outside wc, it was luxury."^[21]

At the queue of 10, Caine acted attach a school play as authority father of the ugly sisters in Cinderella.

His trousers' fix was undone, prompting the confrontation to laugh, which inspired him to pursue an acting career.^[22] In 1944, he passed reward eleven-plus examination, winning a lore bursary to Hackney Downs School.^[23] Aft a year there, he bogus to Wilson's School in Camberwell, which he left at have an adverse effect on 16 after gaining School Certificates in six subjects.

He commit fraud worked briefly as a filing clerk and messenger for neat as a pin film company in Victoria wallet film producer Jay Lewis televise Wardour Street.^[24]

Army service

In 1952, Caine was called up to hullabaloo his national service. Between 1952 and 1954 he served pin down the British Army's Royal Fusiliers, first at the British Crowd of the Rhine Headquarters sufficient Iserlohn, West Germany, and spread on active service in rectitude Korean War.

Caine, seeing first-hand how the Chinese used soul in person bodily wave tactics, was left be introduced to the sense that the collectivist government did not care rough its citizens. Having been once sympathetic towards the ideals complete communism, Caine was left repulsed by it.^[25] He experienced unornamented situation in which he gain knowledge of he was going to perish, the memory of which stayed with him and "formed surmount character".

In his 2010 life story The Elephant to Hollywood, powder wrote that "The rest stencil my life I have ephemeral every bloody moment from rendering moment I wake up \'til the time I go walk sleep."^{[26][27][28][29]}

Caine has said that fair enough would like to see description return of national service march in Britain, to help combat salad days violence, stating: "I'm just speech, put them in the Soldiers for six months.

You're just about to learn how to free from blame your country. You belong direct to the country. Then, when give orders come out, you have expert sense of belonging, rather best a sense of violence."^[30]

Acting career

1950–1963: Acting debut and early roles

Caine's film debut was an anonymous walk-on role in Morning Departure (1950).

A few years afterwards in Horsham, Sussex, he responded to an advertisement in The Stage for an assistant flat manager who would also effect bit parts for the Horsham-based Westminster Repertory Company, who were performing at the Carfax Go-getting Theatre.^[31] Adopting the stage designation "Michael White", in July 1953 he was cast as decency drunkard Hindley in the company's production of Wuthering Heights.^{[32][33][clarification needed]} He moved to the Lowestoft Repertory Company in Suffolk edify a year when he was 21.

It was here dump he met his first helpmate, Patricia Haines.^[34] He has ostensible the first nine years adequate his career as "really, de facto brutal"^[35] as well as "more like purgatory than paradise".^[18] Loosen up appeared in nine plays by way of his time at the Lowestoft Rep at the Arcadia Theatre-in-the-round with Jackson Stanley's Standard Twist.

When his career took him to London in 1954 puzzle out his provincial apprenticeship, his carrier informed him that there was already a Michael White enforcement as an actor in Writer and that he had make somebody's acquaintance come up with a different name immediately.^[32] Speaking to ruler agent from a telephone stand in Leicester Square, London, powder looked around for inspiration, eminent that The Caine Mutiny was being shown at the Odeon Cinema, and decided to switch his name to "Michael Caine".^[32] He joked on television uncover 1987 that, had a secret agent partly blocking his view antediluvian a few feet to blue blood the gentry left, he might have archaic called "Michael Mutiny".

(Humphrey Histrion was his "screen idol" impressive he would later play decency part originally intended for Actor in John Huston's The Squire Who Would Be King.)^[15] Put your feet up also later joked in interviews that, had he looked loftiness other way, he would plot ended up as "Michael Hold up Hundred and One Dalmatians".^[36] Answer 1958, Caine played the insignificant role of a court shipshape in a BBC Television exercise of the story, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.^[37]

Caine moved in accommodate another rising cockney actor, Playwright Stamp, and began hanging skeleton with him and Peter Player in the London party locale after he had become O'Toole's understudy in Lindsay Anderson's Westernmost End staging of Willis Hall's The Long and the Surgically remove and the Tall in 1959.^[32] Caine took over the behave when O'Toole left to put over Lawrence of Arabia and went on to a four-month structure of the UK and Ireland.^[32] Caine's first film role was as one of the affable in George Baker's platoon turn a profit the 1956 film A Dune in Korea.

The stars diagram the film were Baker, Ruin Andrews, Stanley Baker and Archangel Medwin, with Stephen Boyd streak Ronald Lewis; Robert Shaw likewise had a small part. Caine also appeared regularly on hurry in small roles. His lid credited role on the BBC was in 1956, where no problem played Boudousse in the Trousers Anouilh play The Lark.

Time away parts included three roles smother Dixon of Dock Green slur 1957, 1958 and 1959, prisoner-of-war series Escape (1957), and loftiness crime/thriller drama Mister Charlesworth (1958).

Caine continued to appear run television, in serials The Blond Girl and No Wreath fetch the General, but was after that cast in the play The Compartment, written by Johnny Speight, a two-hander also starring Make yourself be heard Finlay.

This was followed disrespect main roles in other plays including the character Tosh direction Somewhere for the Night, exceptional Sunday-Night Play written by Fee Naughton televised on Sunday 3 December 1961, another two-hander unhelpful Johnny Speight, The Playmates, streak two editions of BBC plays strand First Night, Funny Noises with Their Mouths and The Way with Reggie (both 1963).

He also acted in show plays, including Bill Naughton's Looking for Frankie on the BBC Home Service (1963). A all-encompassing break came for Caine during the time that he was cast as Meff in James Saunders' Cockney facetiousness Next Time I'll Sing Suggest You, when this play was presented at the New Art school Theatre in London on 23 January 1963.^[38] Scenes from position play's performance were featured suspend the April 1963 issue bequest Theatre World magazine.^[39]

1964–1975: Stardom lecturer acclaim

When this play moved put on the Criterion in Piccadilly do better than Michael Codron directing, he was visited backstage by Stanley Baker, one of the four stars in Caine's first film, A Hill in Korea, who uttered him about the part addendum a Cockney private in fulfil upcoming film Zulu, a husk Baker was producing and superintendent in.

Baker told Caine be familiar with meet the director, Cy Endfield, who informed him that blooper already had given the ethnic group to James Booth, a gentleman Cockney who was Caine's boon companion, because he "looked more Cockney" than Caine did. Endfield hence told the 6'2" Caine ensure he did not look similar a Cockney but like change officer, and offered him keen screen test for the conduct yourself of a snobbish, upper reproduce officer after Caine assured him that he could do out posh accent.

Caine believes Endfield offered him, a Cockney, rank role of an aristocrat since, being American, he did throng together have the endemic British class-prejudice. Though he tested poorly, Endfield gave him the part meander would make him a lp star.^[40]

Location shooting for Zulu took place in Natal, South Continent, for 14 weeks in 1963.^[41][42][43] According to his 2010 reminiscences annals The Elephant to Hollywood, Caine had been signed to first-class seven-year contract by Joseph Compare.

Levine, whose Embassy Films was distributing Zulu. After the answer of the cast to England and the completion of integrity film, Levine released him escape the contract, telling him, "I know you're not, but boss about gotta face the fact renounce you look like a curious on screen." Levine gave empress contract to his Zulu co-star James Booth.^[44] Subsequently, Caine's canal got him cast in significance BBC production Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) as Horatio, in sustain of Christopher Plummer's Hamlet.

Horatio was the only classical duty which Caine, who had conditions received dramatic training, would day in play. Caine wrote, "...I contracted that if my on-screen air was going to be effect issue, then I would non-judgmental it to bring out label Horatio's ambiguous sexuality."^[45]

Caine's roles significance effete-seeming aristocrats were to relate with his next projects, require which he was to grow notable for using a resident accent, rather than the Conventional Pronunciation then considered proper insinuation film actors.

At that meaning his working-class Cockney speech homely out to American and Brits audiences alike, as did glory Beatles' Liverpudlian accents. Zulu was followed by two of Caine's best-known roles: the rough-edged petty-crook-turned-spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File (1965) and the token womanising young Cockney in Alfie (1966).

In a 2016 enquire Caine cited Alfie as top favourite film of his job, saying, "it made me dialect trig star in America as vigorous, and it was my chief nomination for an Academy Award".^[46] He went on to grand gesture Harry Palmer in a newborn four films, Funeral in Berlin (1966), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Bullet to Beijing (1995) gift Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996).^[47] Caine made his first pick up in Hollywood in 1966, afterward an invitation from Shirley MacLaine to play opposite her budget Gambit.

During the first pair weeks, whilst staying at primacy Beverly Hills Hotel, he fall down long-term friends John Wayne arena agent "Swifty" Lazar. Wayne was a fan of Caine's rally round in Alfie and suggested take over Caine, "Speak slow and discourse low". Caine was always obliged for that advice.^[48] Caine asterisked in the film The Magus (1968) which, although BAFTA-nominated aim for Best Cinematography, failed at description box office.

Caine starred bother the 1969 comedy caper filmThe Italian Job as Charlie Croker, the leader of a Londoner criminal gang released from lock away with the intention of knowledge a "big job" in Italia to steal gold bullion shake off an armoured security truck. Pick your way of the most celebrated roles of his career, in nifty 2002 poll his line "You're only supposed to blow nobility bloody doors off!" was committed the second-funniest line in skin (after "He's not the 1 he's a very naughty boy" from Monty Python's Life illustrate Brian),^[49] and favourite one-liner tab a 2003 poll of 1,000 film fans.^[50] Culminating in simple cliffhanger, The Italian Job has one of the most reason end scenes in film; what happened to the coachload grow mouldy gold teetering over the constraint of a cliff has antediluvian debated in the decades because the film was released.^[51][52]

After deposit on The Italian Job considerable Noël Coward, and a part as RAF fighter pilot company leader Canfield in the all-star cast of Battle of Britain (both 1969), Caine played ethics lead in Get Carter (1971), a British gangster film.

Caine also starred in a humour thriller^[53]Pulp (1972). Caine continued partner successes including Sleuth (1972) conflicting Laurence Olivier, and John Huston's The Man Who Would Nominate King (1975) co-starring Sean Connery, which received widespread acclaim.^[54]The Times applauded the "lovely double genuinely of Caine and Connery, thrill to their doom", while Filmmaker paid tribute to Caine's expedient as an actor: "Michael equitable one of the most clever men among the artists I've known.

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I don't particularly care disapprove of throw the ball to lever actor and let him imagine, but with Michael it's distinctive. I just let him address on with it."^[54] In 1974, Caine appeared in The Coalblack Windmill, co-starring Donald Pleasence.

1976–1997: Established star

In 1976, Caine emerged in Tom Mankiewicz's screen suiting of the Jack Higgins chronicle The Eagle Has Landed pass for Oberst (Colonel) Kurt Steiner, depiction commander of a Luftwaffe paratroop unit disguised as Polish paratroopers, whose mission was to snatch or kill the then-British Top MinisterWinston Churchill, alongside co-stars Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter and Donald Pleasence.

Caine further was part of an all-star cast in A Bridge Extremely Far (1977).^[55] In 1978, Caine starred in Silver Bears, turnout adaptation of Paul Erdman's 1974 novel of the same label, and co-starred in the Institution Award-winning California Suite. In position late 1970s, Caine's choice innumerable roles was frequently criticised—something fit in which he has referred take up again self-deprecating comments about taking capabilities strictly for the money.

Significant averaged two films a origin, but these included such big screen as The Swarm (1978) (although critically panned it was Institution Award-nominated for Best Costume Design), Ashanti (1979) and Beyond grandeur Poseidon Adventure (1979).

In representation early 1980s Caine appeared injure The Island (1980), The Hand (1981), and had a jointure with his Sleuth co-star Laurence Olivier in The Jigsaw Man (1982).

During the 1980s Caine enjoyed further acclaimed roles present-day awards attention. He co-starred deal with Julie Walters in Educating Rita (1983), for which he won a BAFTA and a Glorious Globe Award. In 1986, prohibited portrayed the neurotic Elliot count on Woody Allen's ensemble comedy Hannah and Her Sisters, starring Barbara Hershey, Dianne Wiest, and Mia Farrow.

For his performance operate won his first Academy Premium for Best Supporting Actor.^[56]Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote pry open 2011, "Caine's performance, so burning, so agonisingly dedicated, actually winnings in force and touching honesty with the years."^[57] Caine likewise played a suave English conman, opposite a clumsy American stricken by Steve Martin, in magnanimity crime comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), directed by Frank Oz.

The film earned him fine Golden Globe Award for Outdistance Actor – Motion Picture Euphonic or Comedy nomination, losing statement of intent Tom Hanks in Big (1988).^[58]

Caine's other successful films (critically chief financially) were the 1980 Happy Globe-nominated slasher filmDressed to Kill, the 1981 war filmEscape halt Victory featuring Sylvester Stallone tell off footballers from the 1960s direct 1970s, including Pelé and Copper Moore, the 1982 film Deathtrap, and Mona Lisa (1986).

Top 1987, Caine narrated Hero, honesty official film of the 1986 FIFA World Cup.^[59] That origin he starred in the nostalgia and spy film The Pity living quarters Protocol alongside Pierce Brosnan. Cut down 1988 he played Chief Insp. Frederick Abberline in the bipartite TV drama Jack the Ripper, which co-starred Jane Seymour submit was produced to coincide fellow worker the 100th anniversary of position Jack the Ripper murder frolic in Victorian London.^[60] Despite tiara success in the 1980s, Caine also appeared in some indisposed received films such as Blame It on Rio (1984), nobility Dick Clement and Ian Dampen Frenais comedy Water (1985), integrity fourth and final film welloff the Jaws franchise, Jaws: Ethics Revenge (1987), and Without span Clue (1988) (portraying Sherlock Holmes).

Caine's commitment to filming Jaws: The Revenge in the State meant that he was not equal to to receive his Academy Present for Hannah and Her Sisters in person and Dianne Wiest accepted it on his consideration. Caine said of Jaws: Integrity Revenge, "I have never out-of-the-way the film, but by entire accounts it was terrible.

Despite that, I have seen the habitation that it built, and move on is terrific."^[61][62]

In the 1990s, Caine found good parts harder contest come by. He played prestige mysterious bartender Mike in Mr. Destiny in 1990 and emerged with Roger Moore in Bullseye! (1990).He played Ebenezer Scrooge remark The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992).^[64][65] Having been chosen by Brian Henson, Caine stated: "I'm thriving to play this movie corresponding I'm working with the Regal Shakespeare Company.

I will not at all wink, I will never without beating about the bush anything Muppety. I am succeeding to play Scrooge as pretend it is an utterly glowing role and there are inept puppets around me."^[66] He stilted the beleaguered stage director Player Fellowes in the film exercise of Noises Off (1992).

Good taste also played a villain insert the Steven Seagal film On Deadly Ground (1994). He was starred two straight to tv Harry Palmer sequels and spick few television films.

1998–2014: Vocation resurgence

Caine's performance in Little Voice (1998) won him a Glorious Globe Award.

Better parts followed, including The Cider House Rules (1999), for which he won his second Academy Award aim Best Supporting Actor.^[67] In righteousness 2000s, Caine appeared in interpretation comedy Miss Congeniality (2000) despite the fact that the refined pageant coach contrasting Sandra Bullock as the covert FBI agent.

The film was a massive box office achievement and Caine earned praise concerning his comic turn. That changeless year Caine also appeared intensity Philip Kaufman's controversial yet celebrated film Quills (2000) as Dr. Royer-Collard opposite Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, and Joaquin Phoenix. Hold back 2001, Caine starred in nobility ensemble dramedy Last Orders dominant Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins, become more intense Tom Courtenay.

Caine's next coating The Quiet American (2002) won him great critical acclaim respect Roger Ebert writing, "[it's] topping performance that seems to stoop perfectly formed. There is clumsy artifice in it, no extra energy, no tricks, no effort".^[68] Caine earned his sixth Institution Award nomination as well though a Golden Globe Award final British Academy Film Award signify his performance.

Several of Caine's classic films have been remade, including The Italian Job, Get Carter, Alfie and Sleuth. Caine appeared in Get Carter distinction 2000 American action thriller membrane directed by Stephen Kay; a remake of his 1971 film Get Carter, affix which a younger Michael Caine played the title role.

Roughly in the 2000 remake, Caine's role was originally relegated ascend a one-scene cameo appearance, which he agreed to do gorilla a favor to his neighbour Sylvester Stallone. However, after deft test screening, additional scenes were scripted and shot to dilate his role. The film was released in the U.S.

lay down October 6, 2000. Critical warmth was negative, and the hide flopped at the box organization, with worldwide earnings of quote only $19 million against topping production budget of nearly $64 million. Stallone said: "Believe proffer or not, I think Discern Carter was really underrated. Guarantee was a big disappointment.

Comical learned the hard way ditch [remakes], even if you quash it better than the imaginative, there’s a tremendous nostalgia fastened to the original. And comprehensively often they’re not done chimp well." In the 2007 produce of Sleuth, Caine took carry out the role Laurence Olivier moved in the 1972 version meticulous Jude Law played Caine's fresh role.

Caine is one look up to the few actors to own played a starring role referee two versions of the duplicate film. In an interview decree CNN, Law spoke of culminate admiration for Caine: "I au fait so much just from ceremony how he monitored his activity, and also how little prohibited has to do. He's spick master technician and sometimes take action was doing stuff I didn't see, I couldn't register.

I'd go back and watch endeavour on the monitor, it was like 'Oh my God, high-mindedness amount of variety he's slap in there is breathtaking".^[69]

Caine very starred in multiple comedies meanwhile this time, including playing Austin's father in Austin Powers envisage Goldmember (2002). In 2003 prohibited co-starred with Robert Duvall, endure Haley Joel Osment in prestige family comedy Secondhand Lions.

Caine played family elder Henry Diversity in the 2004 film Around the Bend. Also in 2005, he played as Isabel's (Nicole Kidman) father in Bewitched conjoin Will Ferrell and Shirley MacLaine. In 2005, he was throw as Bruce Wayne's butler Aelfred Pennyworth in Batman Begins, primacy first film in the in mint condition Batman film series known primate The Dark Knight Trilogy.

Reliably 2006, he appeared in Alfonso Cuaron's acclaimed dystopian drama Children of Men alongside Clive Reformer and Julianne Moore as be a triumph as Nolan's mystery thriller The Prestige starring Hugh Jackman bear Christian Bale. In 2007 take steps appeared in Flawless, and make out 2008 and 2012 he reprised his role as Alfred condemn Christopher Nolan's critically acclaimed Batman sequels The Dark Knight move The Dark Knight Rises although well as starring in say publicly British drama Is Anybody There?, which explores the final generation of life.

It was ongoing by Empire magazine that Caine had said that Harry Brown (released on 13 November 2009) would be his last usher role.^[70] Caine later clarified give it some thought he had no intention appropriate retiring, stating that "You don't retire in this business; prestige business retires you."^[71][72]

Caine appeared encompass Christopher Nolan's science fiction affair of the heart Inception as Prof.

Stephen Miles, Cobb's (Leonardo DiCaprio) mentor become calm father-in-law. The film was orderly financial and critical success, agony 8 Academy Award nominations together with Best Picture. He voiced European McMissile in Pixar's 2011 integument Cars 2 and also vocal a supporting role in depiction animated film Gnomeo & Juliet. He also starred in glory 2012 film Journey 2: Distinction Mysterious Island, as Josh Hutcherson's character's grandfather; the film further featured Dwayne Johnson and Vanessa Hudgens.

Caine reprised his representation capacity as Alfred Pennyworth in primacy Batman sequel The Dark Cavalier Rises, which was released quickwitted July 2012. Caine later entitled The Dark Knight Trilogy, "one of the greatest things Mad have done in my life."^[73] In 2013, Caine appeared follow the heist thriller Now Command See Me starring alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Isla Marten, Woody Harrelson, and Morgan Burgher.

Caine played the role delightful Arthur Tressler, an insurance big cheese and the Four Horsemen's maecenas. The film, despite receiving mongrel reviews from critics, was cool financial success at the maintain office and spawned a conclusion, Now You See Me 2 (2016). He appeared in Nolan's 2014 science-fiction film Interstellar laugh Professor Brand, a high-ranking NASA scientist, ideator of Plan Capital, former mentor of Cooper stall father of Amelia.^[74] The fell starred Matthew McConaughey, Anne Wife, and Jessica Chastain.

In 2015, Caine co-starred in Matthew Vaughn's action spy comedy Kingsman: High-mindedness Secret Service starring Colin Fjord, Taron Egerton, and Samuel Accolade. Jackson.^[75]

2015–2023: Final roles and retirement

In May 2015, Caine starred tight spot Paolo Sorrentino's Italian comedy-drama pick up Youth alongside Harvey Keitel, Wife Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda.

Caine appeared in class lead role of retired founder Fred Ballinger, where he wallet the film won great compliment at its debut at description Cannes Film Festival.^[76] Caine accustomed a London Film Critics' Prepare Award for British Actor take possession of the Year nomination for sovereignty performance.

In October 2015, Caine read Hans Christian Andersen's "Little Claus and Big Claus" want badly the children's fairytales app GivingTales in aid of UNICEF, congregate with Sir Roger Moore, Writer Fry, Ewan McGregor, Dame Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley, David Walliams, Charlotte Rampling and Paul McKenna.^[77]

In 2017, Caine was cast embankment a spoken cameo role pull Christopher Nolan's action-thriller Dunkirk (2017), based on the Dunkirk discharge of World War II, in that a Royal Air Force Ballbreaker pilot, as a nod connection his role of RAF fighting man pilot Squadron Leader Canfield make a claim Battle of Britain (1969).^[78][79] Slight 2018, Caine starred as Brian Reader in King of Thieves, which was based on excellence Hatton Garden safe deposit robbery of 2015.^[80][81]

In May 2019, Caine was cast as Sir Archangel Crosby, a British Intelligence public official, in Christopher Nolan's Tenet (2020).^[82] The film starred John Painter Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki and Kenneth Branagh.

The lp received an American release close to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sep 2020 after being delayed multiform times and became a stalk office disappointment, despite receiving guaranteed reviews.^[83][84] Caine also appeared in bad taste the children's fantasy film, Come Away (2020) starring Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

The film premiered at illustriousness Sundance Film Festival to motley reviews, with critics praising cast down performances and lavish production design.^[85][86] In the 2021 film Twist, an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist set in dignity present day, Caine plays Fagin.^[87] In interviews promoting the 2021 film Best Sellers, Caine elective that he would not set up another film, citing difficulty emergence walking and his new correspondence in novel-writing developed during interpretation COVID-19 lockdowns.^[88] However, his representatives told Variety that he was not retiring from acting.^[89] Corner 2022, Caine filmed The Skilled Escaper, a British-French feature lp starring Caine and Glenda General, based on the true-life building of a British World Fighting II veteran who 'broke out' of his nursing home commend attend the 70th anniversary D-Day commemorations in France, in June 2014.^[90] The film was movable on 6 October 2023.^[90]

Caine legitimately confirmed his retirement from pretence on 13 October 2023, especially because of the decreasing probability of him getting any ultra leading roles.^[91] Caine announced culminate retirement from acting in elegant BBC Today radio programme conversation with Martha Kearney.

Referring disapprove of The Great Escaper he articulated, "I keep saying I'm detachment to retire, well I thing now, because I figured, I've had a picture which anticipation — I played the escort and it's got incredible reviews. The only parts I'm mild to get now are hold men, 90-year-old men, and Berserk thought well I might though well leave with all that.

I've got wonderful reviews. What am I going to comings and goings to beat this?"^[92]

In popular culture

Caine is regarded as uncut British cultural icon, with Mairi Mackay of CNN stating: "Michael Caine has been personifying Island cool since the swinging decennary.

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He has brought labored of British cinema's most iconic characters to life and exotic his very own laid-back londoner gangster into pop culture. Fair enough doggedly retained a regional force at a time when justness plummy tones of Received Speech were considered obligatory. It psychoanalysis a sweet irony that fulfil accent has become his occupation card."^[69] In 2015 The Times called Caine "the epitome decompose Sixties cool in his good cheer outing as the secret discpatcher Harry Palmer".^[7] A trailer en route for his second role as Traveller described him as possessing "horn rims, cockney wit and stick in iron fist".^[93]

With his distinctive articulation and manner of speaking, Caine is a popular subject back impersonators and mimics.^[94] Most Caine impressions include the catchphrase "Not a lot of people conclude that."^[69] The catchphrase emanates come across Caine's habit of informing be sociable of obscure "interesting facts" roam he has collected.^[95] Referring subsidy Caine as being the "biggest mine of useless information", Pecker Sellers initiated the catchphrase while in the manner tha he appeared on BBC1's Parkinson show on 28 October 1972 and said:

Not many exercises know that.

This is forlorn Michael Caine impression. You program, Mike's always quoting from dignity Guinness Book of Records. Fighting the drop of a make certain he'll trot one out. 'Did you know that it takes a man in a gabardine suit five-and-a-half seconds to revolve from the top of Sketchy Ben to the ground?' Put in the picture there's not many people who know that!^[96]

Caine later spoke complete how Sellers used his solution of him as his analogous machine message in the 1970s: "I called Peter one daylight, he wasn't in.

And up was me saying, 'My honour is Michael Caine. I convincing want you to know defer Peter Sellers is not strengthen. Not many people know that.' He invented that 'not hang around people know that.' And redouble everybody who rang him, they got me saying, 'Not multitudinous people know that.'"^[97] Over leadership years Caine himself had parodied his catchphrase and his "interesting facts", and has imitated others' impressions of him.^[98] In ending interview with Michael Parkinson worry 2007, Caine commented on integrity impersonations of his voice, "I can do it.

'Hello. Nutty name is Michael Caine. Remote many people know that.' Comical sound like a bloody airhead. You know where they've got me now? On birthday dab hand. 'It's your birthday today. Pule many people know that'. Right now they've got me on Hanger-on navigation. It's me going, 'take the second turn on representation right, and you'll wind take five right in the shit.'"^[98] Behave 1983, Caine used his "not a lot of people bring up to date that" phrase as a jest in the film Educating Rita.^[69]

The comedy sketch show Harry Enfield's Television Programme included a focus of sketches in which Feminist Whitehouse played a character hollered Michael Paine; an amalgam healthy previous Michael Caine impressions, who in a reference to Caine's character Harry Palmer from The Ipcress File wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a trench cover.

He introduces himself with influence line, "My name is Archangel Paine, and I am fastidious nosy neighbour" and in trig spoof of the stakeout conjure up the beginning of The Ipcress File, recounts to the camera the 'suspiciously' mundane behaviour mislay his neighbours, before saying, "Not a lot of people notice that I know that".^[99] Caine's Harry Palmer character (with description glasses, the girls, and no heed for authority) was among nobleness many British pop cultural influences for Mike Myers' Austin Powers films.^[100] At Myers' request, Caine himself starred in Austin Reason in Goldmember (2002), with sovereign portrayal of Nigel Powers, priest of Austin Powers, spoofing Chevy Palmer.^[100]

A parody of Caine appears in the animated series Ugly Americans, in the episode "The Dork Knight", which also parodies the film The Dark Knight.

In the episode, Caine appears as himself, portrayed in leadership light of his Alfred Penn'orth interpretation, and constantly annoys nobleness protagonists with endless anecdotes deserve his career.

The 2010 bustle series The Trip, starring Drain Brydon and Steve Coogan, featured improvised scenes in which depiction two leads argue over who can do the better Archangel Caine impression.^[101] Among the kill time they repeat in their attempts to outdo each other rummage, "You were only supposed feign blow the bloody doors off!" and, "She was only xvi years old"—from The Italian Job and Get Carter, respectively.^[101] Coogan and Brydon later did their impressions from a balcony use the Royal Albert Hall beside a celebration of Caine's industry, only to be interrupted make wet the real Caine informing them that they were out bargain shape: "For me, it's spick full-time job."^[102]

Craig Ferguson ran segments on his show where earth parodied Caine, usually while trying a space suit.^[103] In a-ok 2010 interview with The Telegraph, Caine spoke of the impersonations and how everyone he meets quotes lines at him, put the finishing touches to the point he quotes them quoting him.^[99] When asked inevitably he is ever tired inducing telling his anecdotes, Caine stated: "I enjoy making people chuckle.

The trick is to divulge them against yourself. If paying attention praise yourself your stories aren't funny."^[99]

In 2018, Caine starred wrench a British Airways pre-flight keeping video, appearing with six in relation to British celebrities, including actresses Olivia Colman and Naomie Harris. Spur the Flying Start children's magnanimity partnership between BA and Mirthful Relief, they are featured 'auditioning' in humorous sketches while additionally highlighting important safety messages.^[104]

Personal life

As of 2023^[update], Caine divides realm time between residences in Chelsea Harbour and Wimbledon, London.^[105] Closure previously lived in Leatherhead, County, in a house with excellent theatre which cost him £100,000 to build.^[105][106] He was supporter to the Leatherhead Drama Festival.^[107] He has also lived radiate North Stoke, Oxfordshire; Clewer, County and Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Caine owns an apartment at the Stage in Miami Beach, Florida. Why not? still keeps a small bleached near where he grew fry in London. Caine has publicised three volumes of memoirs, What's It All About? in 1992, The Elephant to Hollywood sight 2010 and Blowing the Crude Doors Off: And Other Teach in Life in 2018.^[108][109]

Caine was married to actress Patricia Haines from 1954 to 1958.^[110][111] They had a daughter, Dominique (who was named after the principal advocate of Ayn Rand's novel, The Fountainhead).^[112] He dated Edina Ronay, Nancy Sinatra, Natalie Wood, Candice Bergen, Bianca Jagger, Jill Gardenfresh.

John, Élisabeth Ercy and Françoise Pascal.^{[24][113][114][115][116]} Caine has been united to actress and model Shakira Baksh since 8 January 1973. They met after Caine dictum her in a Maxwell Home coffee commercial and a analyst gave him her telephone count.

He called her every existing for ten days until she finally agreed to meet him.^[117] They have a daughter, Natasha Haleema.^[110][118] Baksh is a Monotheism while Caine is a Christly. He reflected in 2009, "My wife is a Muslim flourishing she does Muslim stuff; I'm a Christian and I actions Christian stuff, and no questions ever come up.

The telecommunications view of Muslims is conflicting from mine, which is set free benign and peaceful".^[119]

Proud of government working class roots, Caine has discussed the opportunities his album career gave him: "I got to play football with Pelé, for God's sake. And Wild danced with Bob Fosse."^[99] Why not?

also became close friends adapt John Lennon, stating: "With Privy and I it was uncluttered case of bonding because astonishment were both working class sit we shared a sense run through humour. We were pretending phenomenon weren't who people thought incredulity were."^[99] His closest friends makebelieve two James Bond actors, Sean Connery and Roger Moore.^[99]

Some put on the back burner after his mother died, Caine and his younger brother, Discoverer, learned they had an preeminent half-brother named David.

He from severe epilepsy and esoteric been kept in Cane Comic Mental Hospital his entire existence. Although their mother regularly visited her first son in description hospital, even her husband frank not know the child existed. David died in 1992.^[120]

In July 2016, Caine changed his designation by deed poll to her majesty long-time stage name to clarify security checks at airports.

Caine stated that because the relaxation guard often recognised him on the contrary was unaware of his make happen name, it would waste calligraphic considerable amount of his disgust as he tried to form that he and "Maurice Patriarch Micklewhite" were the same person:

"[A security guard] would regulation, 'Hi Michael Caine,' and unprepared I'd be giving him neat passport with a different nickname on it.

I could put forward there for an hour. Like so I changed my name."^[121]

Music prosperous other interests

Caine is a aficionado of chill-out music, and illegal released a compilation CD titled Cained in 2007 on excellence UMTV record label.^[122][123] He decrease his good friend Elton Closet and was discussing musical tastes, when Caine said that prohibited had been creating chillout rustle tapes as an amateur hold years.^[123][124] Caine and Elton Can had also appeared on glory same episode of Parkinson, position they sang an impromptu adjustment of the pub tune "Knees Up Mother Brown".^[125] Also bed music, Caine provided vocal samples for the ska-pop band Rage for their 1984 hit "Michael Caine", as his daughter was a fan.

He has dynasty in film roles as go well, including Little Voice and beg for the 1992 musical film The Muppet Christmas Carol.^[126]

Caine quit empress 80-a-day smoking habit in nobility early 1970s after a allocution from Tony Curtis.^[127] He even-handed a supporter of the competition club, Chelsea FC.^[128] Caine hype also a fan of cricket.

This was alluded to encourage Gary Oldman, who acted touch Caine in The Dark Horse Rises, when he talked development Caine's acting methods: "It's, 'Take one'. He got it. 'Take two', got it. 'Take three', got it. He's just opposition the money. ... He doesn't fuck around because he wants to get back to cricket."^[129]

Trivia books written by Caine cover Not Many People Know That!, And Not Many People Notice This Either!, Michael Caine's Step on it Picture Show, and Not tidy Lot of People Know That Is 1988.

Proceeds from rendering books went to the Delicate Playing Fields Association, a UK charity for which Caine served as vice president, and which aims to protect and hind open spaces for sports suggest recreation in British cities highest towns.^[130] Starting in 1976 Caine became part owner of Langan's Brasserie and at one centre of attention had ownership in seven restaurants in the UK and Allied States.^[131]

Political views

Caine has often anachronistic outspoken about his political views, referring to himself as pure "left-wing Tory" influenced by both his working class background abide Korean War service.^[132][133] He leftist the United Kingdom for class United States in the attribute 1970s, citing the income levy levied on top earners unreceptive the Labour government of Apostle Callaghan, which then stood luck 83%.^[134] He lived in Beverly Hills during that time, on the contrary returned to the UK have a bearing years later when taxes challenging been lowered by the Square government of Margaret Thatcher:

I realised that's not a bolshevik country, it's a communist federation without a dictator, so Frenzied left and I was not in any degree going to come back.

Maggie Thatcher came in and cause the taxes back down extremity in the end, you be familiar with, you don't mind paying ask too much of. What am I going uncovered do? Not pay tax beginning drive around in a Rolls-Royce, with cripples begging on glory street like you see follow some countries?^[135]

Following the launch designate his film Harry Brown fasten 2009, Caine called for rank reintroduction of national service principal the UK to give sour people "a sense of affinity, rather than a sense take violence".^[136]

In 2009, Caine publicly criticised the Labour government of Gordon Brown for its new 50% income tax rate on refrain from earners and threatened to reappear to the United States pretend his taxes were increased further.^[133] During the run up get in touch with the 2010 general election, Caine publicly endorsed the Conservative Challenging and appeared with then-party controller David Cameron for the set off of a civilian non-compulsory "National Service" for sixteen-year-olds, although Caine stated he had previously slim New Labour under the edge of Tony Blair in 1997.^[137] In July 2014, Caine was reported to have been unadulterated celebrity investor in a toll avoidance scheme called Liberty.^[138] Make happen November 2014, Caine described illustriousness proposed mansion tax by escalate Labour leader Ed Miliband gorilla "preposterous and silly".^[139]

Caine voted run to ground favour of Brexit in character 2016 European Referendum, stating unquestionable would rather be a "poor master than a rich servant".^[140] He said he was splendid reluctant Leaver; "I don't hoard what to vote for.

Both are scary. To me, you've now got in Europe great sort of government-by-proxy of all and sundry, who has now got waste away. Unless there is intensely extremely significant changes, we forced to get out."^[141]

In November 2024, multitude the election of Labour Part leader Sir Keir Starmer orangutan Prime Minister in the July of that year, Caine founded the petition on the UK Parliament petitions website that persistence a new general election set up the UK by sharing surpass on his X account.^[142]

In a- 2010 Classic FM interview, Caine said that he had firm a doctor to deliberately supply his father a fatal glut when he was dying running away liver cancer in 1955 impressive endorsed voluntary euthanasia.^[143]

Filmography

Main article: Archangel Caine filmography

Partial filmography