Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.; March 14, 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.
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Primarily2025 Laughs and Larrikins
2025 The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault as Self
2025 The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault as Self
2024 Faye as Self - Actor, Hurry Sundown (archive footage)
2023 The Great Escaper as Bernard Jordan
2023 Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story as Self (archive footage)
2023 Dirty, Sexy & Totally Iconic as Self
2023 MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema as Self - Actor
2022 The Sound of 007 as Self (archive footage)
2022 Medieval as Lord Boreš
2021 Best Sellers as Harris Shaw
2021 Twist as Fagin
2020 Come Away as Charlie
2020 Tenet as Crosby
2020 AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS as Self
2020 Four Kids and It as Psammead (voice)
2019 An Accidental Studio as Self (archive footage)
2018 The Man Who Got Carter as Self
2018 Quincy as Self
2018 King of Thieves as Brian Reader
2018 Dear Dictator as General Anton Vincent
2018 Sherlock Gnomes as Lord Redbrick (voice)
2017 And the Winner Isn't as Self
2017 My Generation as Self Producer
2017 Dunkirk as Voice on Radio (uncredited)
2017 Going in Style as Joe Harding
2016 Now You See Me 2 as Arthur Tressler
2015 Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
2015 The Last Witch Hunter as Dolan 36th
2015 Youth as Fred Ballinger
2015 Inside 'Interstellar' as Self / Professor Brand
2015 Kingsman: The Secret Service as Arthur
2014 Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey as Self
2014 Interstellar as Professor Brand
2014 Stonehearst Asylum as Dr. Benjamin Salt
2014 The Double Executive Producer
2013 Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
2013 The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)
2013 Mr. Morgan's Last Love as Matthew Morgan
2013 Now You See Me as Arthur Tressler
2012 Ending the Knight as Self
2012 The Dark Knight Rises as Alfred
2012 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island as Alexander Anderson
2011 Discovering Hamlet as Horatio (archive footage)
2011 The Many Faces of... Michael Caine
2011 Cars 2 as Finn McMissile (voice)
2011 Gnomeo & Juliet as Lord Redbrick (voice)
2010 Wimbledon 2010 Official Film as Self
2010 Inception as Stephen Miles
2009 Pinter's Progress as Self
2009 Harry Brown as Harry Brown
2009 Heath Ledger: A Tribute as Self
2009 Is Anybody There? as Clarence
2008 Valentino: The Last Emperor as Self
2008 The Dark Knight as Alfred
2008 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired as Self (archive footage)
2007 Sleuth as Andrew Wyke
2007 Flawless as Mr. Hobbs
2007 The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan as Self
2006 The Foreign Eye as Self
2006 Arte 1 Documenta
2006 The Prestige as Cutter
2006 Children of Men as Jasper
2006 50 Films to See Before You Die as Self
2005 The Weather Man as Robert Spritzel
2005 Bewitched as Nigel Bigelow
2005 Batman Begins as Alfred
2004 Around the Bend as Henry Lair
2004 Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild as Self(archive footage) (uncredited)
2003 The Statement as Pierre Brossard
2003 The Making Of 'The Italian Job'
2003 Secondhand Lions as Garth
2003 The Actors as Anthony O'Malley
2003 Quicksand as Jake Mellows
2002 The Quiet American as Thomas Fowler
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember as Nigel Powers
2001 Last Orders as Jack
2000 Miss Congeniality as Victor Melling
2000 Quills as Dr. Royer-Collard
2000 Get Carter as Cliff Brumby
2000 Shiner as Billy 'Shiner' Simpson
1999 The Cider House Rules as Dr. Wilbur Larch
1999 The Debtors
1998 Curtain Call as Max Gale
1998 Little Voice as Ray Say
1998 Shadow Run as Haskell
1997 Mandela and de Klerk as F.W. de Klerk
1996 Elle s'appelait Françoise as Self
1996 Midnight in Saint Petersburg as Harry Palmer
1996 Blood and Wine as Victor
1995 Bullet to Beijing as Harry Palmer
1995 Roger Moore: A Matter of Class as Self
1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self
1994 Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular as Self (archive footage)
1994 On Deadly Ground as Michael Jennings
1994 Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold as Self
1993 Sean Connery: Private as Self
1992 The Muppet Christmas Carol as Scrooge
1992 Blue Ice as Harry Anders Producer
1992 Death Becomes Her as Michael Caine (uncredited) (archive footage)
1992 Noises Off... as Lloyd Fellowes
1991 Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self
1991 Rabbit Ears - King Midas and the Golden Touch as Narrator (voice)
1990 Bullseye! as Sidney Lipton / Doctor Hicklar
1990 Mr. Destiny as Mike
1990 Night of 100 Stars III as Self
1990 A Shock to the System as Graham Marshall
1990 Jekyll & Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
1989 The Movie Life of George as Self
1988 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as Lawrence Jamieson
1988 John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick as Self
1988 Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man as Self - Host
1988 Without a Clue as Sherlock Holmes
1987 Surrender as Sean Stein
1987 Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment as Self
1987 Jaws: The Revenge as Hoagie Newcombe
1987 The Making of Jaws The Revenge as Self
1987 Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1987 The Fourth Protocol as John Preston Executive Producer
1987 The Best of Max Headroom as Himself
1986 Hero as Narrator (voice)
1986 The Whistle Blower as Frank Jones
1986 Half Moon Street as Lord Sam Bulbeck
1986 Mona Lisa as Mortwell
1986 Sweet Liberty as Elliott James
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters as Elliot
1985 The Holcroft Covenant as Noel Holcroft
1985 Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1985 Water as Governor Baxter Thwaites
1985 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 The Jigsaw Man as Philip Kimberley / Sergei Kuzminsky
1983 The Honorary Consul as Charley Fortnum
1983 Educating Rita as Dr. Frank Bryant
1983 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life as British Soldier (uncredited) (segment "Fighting Each Other")
1982 Deathtrap as Sidney Bruhl
1981 Escape to Victory as Captain John Colby
1981 The Hand as Jonathan Lansdale
1980 Dressed to Kill as Doctor Robert Elliott
1980 The Island as Blair Maynard
1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure as Captain Mike Turner
1979 Ashanti as Dr. David Linderby
1978 California Suite as Sidney Cochran
1978 The Swarm as Brad Crane
1978 Inside 'the Swarm' as Self
1977 A Bridge Too Far as Lt. Col. John O.E. Vandeleur
1977 Silver Bears as Doc Fletcher
1976 The Eagle Has Landed as Col. Kurt Steiner
1976 Harry and Walter Go to New York as Adam Worth
1975 Peeper as Leslie C. Tucker
1975 The Man Who Would Be King as Peachy Carnehan
1975 Rickles
1975 The Romantic Englishwoman as Lewis
1975 The Wilby Conspiracy as Jim Keogh
1974 The Marseille Contract as John Deray / John Davos
1974 The Black Windmill as Maj. John Tarrant
1972 Sleuth as Milo Tindle
1972 Pulp as Mickey King Producer
1971 Kidnapped as Alan Breck
1971 Zee and Co. as Robert Blakeley
1971 Fight of the Century as Self-(Audience Member)
1971 Get Carter as Jack Carter Producer
1971 The Last Valley as The Captain
1970 Simon Simon as Michael Caine
1970 Too Late the Hero as Pvt. Tosh Hearne
1969 Battle of Britain as Squadron Leader Canfield
1969 The Italian Job as Charlie Croker
1969 Male of the Species as Cornelius
1969 Play Dirty as Capt. Douglas
1968 The Magus as Nicholas Urfe
1968 Deadfall as Henry
1967 Billion Dollar Brain as Harry Palmer
1967 Woman Times Seven as Handsome Stranger
1967 Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
1967 Hurry Sundown as Henry Warren
1966 Funeral in Berlin as Harry Palmer
1966 Gambit as Harry
1966 The Wrong Box as Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury
1966 Alfie as Alfie Elkins
1965 The Ipcress File as Harry Palmer
1964 Hamlet at Elsinore as Horatio
1964 Zulu as Lt. Gonville Bromhead
1963 The Wrong Arm of the Law as Police Officer (uncredited)
1962 Hobson's Choice as Willie Mossop
1962 Solo for Sparrow as Paddy Mooney
1962 Top Deck as Bus driver (uncredited)
1961 The Day the Earth Caught Fire as Checkpoint Policeman (uncredited)
1960 The Bulldog Breed as Sailor in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
1960 Foxhole in Cairo as Weber
1959 Danger Within as Prisoner with Pin-Up (uncredited)
1958 Passport to Shame as Bridegroom (uncredited)
1958 The Two-Headed Spy as Gestapo Agent
1958 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1958 Blind Spot as Johnny Brent
1958 The Key as Seaman (uncredited)
1958 Carve Her Name with Pride as Train Prisoner (uncredited)
1957 How to Murder a Rich Uncle as Gilrony
1957 Blood Money as Fighter
1956 A Hill in Korea as Pvt. Lockyer
1956 Sailor Beware as Sailor (Uncredited)
1946 Morning Departure as Teaboy