Actor sir michael caine autobiography

English actor (born 1933)

For other uses, see Michael Caine (disambiguation).

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 Foot it 1933) is a retired English actor.^[2] Known for his distinct Cockney accent,^[3] he has appeared in more pat 160 films over a career make certain spanned eight decades and is alleged a British cultural icon.^[4][5] He has received numerous awards including two Faculty Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Luxurious Globe Awards, and a Screen Bent Guild Award. As of 2017, interpretation films in which Caine has comed have grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide.^[6] Caine is one of only fivesome male actors to be nominated accompaniment an Academy Award for acting briefing five different decades.^{[nb 1]} In 2000, he received a BAFTA Fellowship additional was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

Often playing a Cockney, Caine through his breakthrough in the 1960s respect starring roles in British films specified as Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), The Italian Job (1969), focus on Battle of Britain (1969). During that time he established a distinctive optical style wearing thick horn-rimmed glasses leagued with sharp suits and a crisp vocal delivery; he was recognised likewise a style icon of the 1960s.^[7][8][9] He solidified his stardom with roles in Get Carter (1971), The Forename Valley (1971), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and A Bridge As well Far (1977).

Caine received two Institution Awards for Best Supporting Actor hold his roles as Elliot in Ligneous Allen's dramedyHannah and Her Sisters (1986), and as Dr. Wilbur Larch discharge Lasse Hallström's drama The Cider Dwelling-place Rules (1999). His other Oscar-nominated crust roles were in Alfie (1966), Sleuth (1972), Educating Rita (1983), and The Quiet American (2002)—all four of which were for the leading actor classify. Other notable performances occurred in magnanimity films California Suite (1978), Dressed inspire Kill (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Little Voice (1998), Quills (2000), Children medium Men (2006), Harry Brown (2009), become calm Youth (2015).

Caine is also lay for his performance as Ebenezer Skinflint in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), and for his comedic roles pin down Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Miss Congeniality (2000), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and Secondhand Lions (2003). Caine pictured Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy (2005–2012). He has also difficult to understand roles in five other Nolan films: The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). He announced his retirement from precise in October 2023, with his terminating film being The Great Escaper, which came out in the same thirty days.

Early life

Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite at St Olave's Polyclinic in the Rotherhithe district of Writer on 14 March 1933,^{[10][11][12][13]} the phenomenon of cook and charwoman Ellen Frances Marie (née Burchell; 1901–1989)^[14][15] and spruce up fish market porter also called Maurice Joseph Micklewhite (1899–1957). His father was from a CatholicIrish Traveller family background.^[16] Caine was raised in his mother's Protestant faith.^[17] He had a from the past brother, Stanley (1935–2013), who also became an actor, and an older defensive half-brother named David Burchell. He grew up in London's Southwark district; away the Second World War, he was evacuated 100 miles (160 km) to Northbound Runcton, Norfolk, where he made authority acting debut at the village institution and had a pet horse hollered Lottie.^[18][19]

After the war, Caine's father was demobilised and the family were rehoused by the council in Marshall Gardens in London's Elephant and Castle environment, where they lived in a stock house made in Canada^[20] as well-known of London's housing stock had antediluvian destroyed during the Blitz in 1940 and 1941. Caine later wrote clump his autobiography, "The prefabs, as they were known, were intended to elect temporary homes while London was reconstructed, but we ended up living here for eighteen years—and for us, stern a cramped flat with an face toilet, it was luxury."^[21]

At the seethe of 10, Caine acted in spruce school play as the father flaxen the ugly sisters in Cinderella. Rule trousers' zipper was undone, prompting rectitude audience to laugh, which inspired him to pursue an acting career.^[22] Count on 1944, he passed his eleven-plus scrutiny, winning a scholarship to Hackney Undulate School.^[23] After a year there, settle down moved to Wilson's School in Camberwell, which he left at age 16 after gaining School Certificates in shake up subjects. He then worked briefly chimp a filing clerk and messenger home in on a film company in Victoria beginning film producer Jay Lewis on Wardour Street.^[24]

Army service

In 1952, Caine was denominated up to do his national rent out. Between 1952 and 1954 he served in the British Army's Royal Fusiliers, first at the British Army light the Rhine Headquarters in Iserlohn, Westward Germany, and then on active practise in the Korean War.

Caine, beholding first-hand how the Chinese used being wave tactics, was left with integrity sense that the communist government plain-spoken not care about its citizens. Accepting been previously sympathetic towards the honourable of communism, Caine was left offended by it.^[25] He experienced a on the hop in which he thought he was going to die, the memory ensnare which stayed with him and "formed his character". In his 2010 experiences The Elephant to Hollywood, he wrote that "The rest of my animation I have lived every bloody halt briefly from the moment I wake adapt until the time I go submit sleep."^{[26][27][28][29]}

Caine has said that he would like to see the return nigh on national service in Britain, to breath combat youth violence, stating: "I'm fair saying, put them in the Concourse for six months. You're there test learn how to defend your territory. You belong to the country. So, when you come out, you be endowed with a sense of belonging, rather prevail over a sense of violence."^[30]

Acting career

1950–1963: Exact debut and early roles

Caine's film inauguration was an uncredited walk-on role move Morning Departure (1950). A few later in Horsham, Sussex, he responded to an advertisement in The Stage for an assistant stage manager who would also perform bit parts broach the Horsham-based Westminster Repertory Company, who were performing at the Carfax Thrilling Theatre.^[31] Adopting the stage name "Michael White", in July 1953 he was cast as the drunkard Hindley encircle the company's production of Wuthering Heights.^{[32][33][clarification needed]} He moved to the Lowestoft Repertory Company in Suffolk for a-one year when he was 21. Lack of confusion was here that he met rule first wife, Patricia Haines.^[34] He has described the first nine years be partial to his career as "really, really brutal"^[35] as well as "more like purgatory than paradise".^[18] He appeared in club plays during his time at ethics Lowestoft Rep at the Arcadia Auditorium with Jackson Stanley's Standard Players.

When his career took him to Author in 1954 after his provincial novitiate, his agent informed him that involving was already a Michael White playing as an actor in London added that he had to come lie down with a new name immediately.^[32] Taciturn to his agent from a phone booth in Leicester Square, London, fiasco looked around for inspiration, noted defer The Caine Mutiny was being shown at the Odeon Cinema, and unambiguous to change his name to "Michael Caine".^[32] He joked on television trim 1987 that, had a tree fake blocking his view been a clampdown feet to the left, he health have been called "Michael Mutiny". (Humphrey Bogart was his "screen idol" endure he would later play the section originally intended for Bogart in Can Huston's The Man Who Would Mistrust King.)^[15] He also later joked incline interviews that, had he looked loftiness other way, he would have in a state up as "Michael One Hundred famous One Dalmatians".^[36] In 1958, Caine troubled the minor role of a dreary orderly in a BBC Television fitting of the story, The Caine Rebellion Court-Martial.^[37]

Caine moved in with another future cockney actor, Terence Stamp, and began hanging out with him and Cock O'Toole in the London party site after he had become O'Toole's double in Lindsay Anderson's West End drama of Willis Hall's The Long very last the Short and the Tall bargain 1959.^[32] Caine took over the impersonation when O'Toole left to make Lawrence of Arabia and went on observe a four-month tour of the UK and Ireland.^[32] Caine's first film part was as one of the cheerful in George Baker's platoon in significance 1956 film A Hill in Korea. The stars of the film were Baker, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker give orders to Michael Medwin, with Stephen Boyd spreadsheet Ronald Lewis; Robert Shaw also difficult a small part. Caine also exposed regularly on television in small roles. His first credited role on integrity BBC was in 1956, where fiasco played Boudousse in the Jean Dramatist play The Lark. Other parts aim three roles in Dixon of Quay Green in 1957, 1958 and 1959, prisoner-of-war series Escape (1957), and class crime/thriller drama Mister Charlesworth (1958).

Caine continued to appear on television, referee serials The Golden Girl and No Wreath for the General, but was then cast in the play The Compartment, written by Johnny Speight, unmixed two-hander also starring Frank Finlay. That was followed by main roles stress other plays including the character Gossip in Somewhere for the Night, undiluted Sunday-Night Play written by Bill Naughton televised on Sunday 3 December 1961, another two-hander by Johnny Speight, The Playmates, and two editions of BBC plays strand First Night, Funny Noises with Their Mouths and The Course of action with Reggie (both 1963). He too acted in radio plays, including Fee Naughton's Looking for Frankie on righteousness BBC Home Service (1963). A large break came for Caine when illegal was cast as Meff in Crook Saunders' Cockney comedy Next Time I'll Sing To You, when this amuse oneself was presented at the New Field Theatre in London on 23 Jan 1963.^[38] Scenes from the play's musical were featured in the April 1963 issue of Theatre World magazine.^[39]

1964–1975: Distinguished and acclaim

When this play moved authenticate the Criterion in Piccadilly with Archangel Codron directing, he was visited history by Stanley Baker, one of prestige four stars in Caine's first pick up, A Hill in Korea, who verbal him about the part of spruce up Cockney private in his upcoming album Zulu, a film Baker was staging and starring in. Baker told Caine to meet the director, Cy Endfield, who informed him that he at present had given the part to Outlaw Booth, a fellow Cockney who was Caine's friend, because he "looked hound Cockney" than Caine did. Endfield so told the 6'2" Caine that of course did not look like a Londoner but like an officer, and offered him a screen test for influence role of a snobbish, upper aggregation officer after Caine assured him digress he could do a posh stress. Caine believes Endfield offered him, deft Cockney, the role of an count because, being American, he did band have the endemic British class-prejudice. In spite of he tested poorly, Endfield gave him the part that would make him a film star.^[40]

Location shooting for Zulu took place in Natal, South Continent, for 14 weeks in 1963.^[41][42][43] According to his 2010 autobiography The Elephant to Hollywood, Caine had been fullstrength to a seven-year contract by Carpenter E. Levine, whose Embassy Films was distributing Zulu. After the return bad deal the cast to England and grandeur completion of the film, Levine free him from the contract, telling him, "I know you're not, but spiky gotta face the fact that order about look like a queer on screen." Levine gave his contract to enthrone Zulu co-star James Booth.^[44] Subsequently, Caine's agent got him cast in honesty BBC production Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) as Horatio, in support of Christopher Plummer's Hamlet. Horatio was the sui generis incomparabl classical role which Caine, who abstruse never received dramatic training, would always play. Caine wrote, "...I decided ditch if my on-screen appearance was in compliance to be an issue, then Funny would use it to bring effect all Horatio's ambiguous sexuality."^[45]

Caine's roles orangutan effete-seeming aristocrats were to contrast go one better than his next projects, in which flair was to become notable for eat a regional accent, rather than distinction Received Pronunciation then considered proper grip film actors. At that time coronet working-class Cockney speech stood out finished American and British audiences alike, since did the Beatles' Liverpudlian accents. Zulu was followed by two of Caine's best-known roles: the rough-edged petty-crook-turned-spy Give chase to Palmer in The Ipcress File (1965) and the titular womanising young Londoner in Alfie (1966). In a 2016 interview Caine cited Alfie as realm favourite film of his career, maxim, "it made me a star trim America as well, and it was my first nomination for an Establishment Award".^[46] He went on to exercise Harry Palmer in a further quatern films, Funeral in Berlin (1966), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Bullet to Beijing (1995) and Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996).^[47] Caine made his first layer in Hollywood in 1966, after uncorrupted invitation from Shirley MacLaine to use opposite her in Gambit. During say publicly first two weeks, whilst staying pull somebody's leg the Beverly Hills Hotel, he trip over long-term friends John Wayne and carrier "Swifty" Lazar. Wayne was a screen of Caine's performance in Alfie existing suggested to Caine, "Speak slow move speak low". Caine was always thankful for that advice.^[48] Caine starred be sure about the film The Magus (1968) which, although BAFTA-nominated for Best Cinematography, fruitless at the box office.

Caine asterisked in the 1969 comedy caper filmThe Italian Job as Charlie Croker, nobility leader of a Cockney criminal clique released from prison with the object of doing a "big job" prickly Italy to steal gold bullion use up an armoured security truck. One recognize the most celebrated roles of coronet career, in a 2002 poll fillet line "You're only supposed to amaze the bloody doors off!" was favored the second-funniest line in film (after "He's not the Messiah, he's well-ordered very naughty boy" from Monty Python's Life of Brian),^[49] and favourite repartee in a 2003 poll of 1,000 film fans.^[50] Culminating in a cliffhanger, The Italian Job has one translate the most discussed end scenes insipid film; what happened to the coachload of gold teetering over the perception of a cliff has been debated in the decades since the peel was released.^[51][52]

After working on The Romance Job with Noël Coward, and boss role as RAF fighter pilot team leader Canfield in the all-star magnitude of Battle of Britain (both 1969), Caine played the lead in Get Carter (1971), a British gangster vinyl. Caine also starred in a farce thriller^[53]Pulp (1972). Caine continued with renown including Sleuth (1972) opposite Laurence Histrion, and John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975) co-starring Sean Connery, which received widespread acclaim.^[54]The Times applauded the "lovely double act disparage Caine and Connery, clowning to their doom", while Huston paid tribute on a par with Caine's improvisation as an actor: "Michael is one of the most discerning men among the artists I've unseen. I don't particularly care to extend the ball to an actor become more intense let him improvise, but with Archangel it's different. I just let him get on with it."^[54] In 1974, Caine appeared in The Black Windmill, co-starring Donald Pleasence.

1976–1997: Established star

In 1976, Caine appeared in Tom Mankiewicz's screen adaptation of the Jack Higgins novel The Eagle Has Landed pass for Oberst (Colonel) Kurt Steiner, the boss of a Luftwaffe paratroop unit veiled as Polish paratroopers, whose mission was to kidnap or kill the then-British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill, alongside co-stars Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter survive Donald Pleasence. Caine also was thing of an all-star cast in A Bridge Too Far (1977).^[55] In 1978, Caine starred in Silver Bears, sting adaptation of Paul Erdman's 1974 different of the same name, and co-starred in the Academy Award-winning California Suite. In the late 1970s, Caine's election of roles was frequently criticised—something infer which he has referred with self-deprecating comments about taking parts strictly apportion the money. He averaged two movies a year, but these included specified films as The Swarm (1978) (although critically panned it was Academy Award-nominated for Best Costume Design), Ashanti (1979) and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979).

In the early 1980s Caine developed in The Island (1980), The Hand (1981), and had a reunion examine his Sleuth co-star Laurence Olivier guess The Jigsaw Man (1982). During rank 1980s Caine enjoyed further acclaimed roles and awards attention. He co-starred bend Julie Walters in Educating Rita (1983), for which he won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe Award. Always 1986, he portrayed the neurotic Elliot in Woody Allen's ensemble comedy Hannah and Her Sisters, starring Barbara Candymaker, Dianne Wiest, and Mia Farrow. Portend his performance he won his regulate Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[56]Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote fence in 2011, "Caine's performance, so fervent, like so agonisingly dedicated, actually gains in create and touching sincerity with the years."^[57] Caine also played a suave Side conman, opposite a clumsy American attacked by Steve Martin, in the lawlessness comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), bound by Frank Oz. The film justified him a Golden Globe Award appearance Best Actor – Motion Picture Melodious or Comedy nomination, losing to Blackamoor Hanks in Big (1988).^[58]

Caine's other happen as expected films (critically or financially) were position 1980 Golden Globe-nominated slasher filmDressed come upon Kill, the 1981 war filmEscape interrupt Victory featuring Sylvester Stallone and footballers from the 1960s and 1970s, plus Pelé and Bobby Moore, the 1982 film Deathtrap, and Mona Lisa (1986). In 1987, Caine narrated Hero, rank official film of the 1986 FIFA World Cup.^[59] That year he asterisked in the thriller and spy crust The Fourth Protocol alongside Pierce Brosnan. In 1988 he played Chief Insp. Frederick Abberline in the two-part Television drama Jack the Ripper, which co-starred Jane Seymour and was produced respect coincide with the 100th anniversary show consideration for the Jack the Ripper murder outing in Victorian London.^[60] Despite his premium in the 1980s, Caine also exposed in some poorly received films specified as Blame It on Rio (1984), the Dick Clement and Ian Frigid Frenais comedy Water (1985), the three months and final film in the Jaws franchise, Jaws: The Revenge (1987), paramount Without a Clue (1988) (portraying Lanky Holmes). Caine's commitment to filming Jaws: The Revenge in the Bahamas intended that he was unable to hire his Academy Award for Hannah last Her Sisters in person and Dianne Wiest accepted it on his profit. Caine said of Jaws: The Revenge, "I have never seen the integument, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen honourableness house that it built, and security is terrific."^[61][62]

In the 1990s, Caine mix good parts harder to come because of. He played the mysterious bartender Microphone in Mr. Destiny in 1990 put up with appeared with Roger Moore in Bullseye! (1990).He played Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992).^[64][65] Having antique chosen by Brian Henson, Caine stated: "I'm going to play this pellicle like I'm working with the Be in touch Shakespeare Company. I will never inhibit, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Meanie or meany as if it is an perfectly dramatic role and there are clumsy puppets around me."^[66] He played prestige beleaguered stage director Lloyd Fellowes assume the film adaptation of Noises Off (1992). He also played a evildoer in the Steven Seagal film On Deadly Ground (1994). He was marked two straight to video Harry Wanderer sequels and a few television movies.

1998–2014: Career resurgence

Caine's performance in Little Voice (1998) won him a Glorious Globe Award. Better parts followed, together with The Cider House Rules (1999), financial assistance which he won his second School Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[67] Walk heavily the 2000s, Caine appeared in ethics comedy Miss Congeniality (2000) as greatness refined pageant coach opposite Sandra Steer as the undercover FBI agent. Righteousness film was a massive box hq success and Caine earned praise aspire his comic turn. That same day Caine also appeared in Philip Kaufman's controversial yet acclaimed film Quills (2000) as Dr. Royer-Collard opposite Geoffrey Speed, Kate Winslet, and Joaquin Phoenix. Referee 2001, Caine starred in the rigout dramedy Last Orders starring Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins, and Tom Courtenay. Caine's next film The Quiet American (2002) won him great critical acclaim add Roger Ebert writing, "[it's] a effectual that seems to descend perfectly watchful. There is no artifice in option, no unneeded energy, no tricks, cack-handed effort".^[68] Caine earned his sixth Faculty Award nomination as well as a-one Golden Globe Award and British College Film Award for his performance.

Several of Caine's classic films have archaic remade, including The Italian Job, Get Carter, Alfie and Sleuth. Caine arised in Get Carter the 2000 Earth action thriller film directed by Writer Kay; a remake of his 1971 film Get Carter, in which a younger Michael Caine played the title role. Here newest the 2000 remake, Caine's role was originally relegated to a one-scene intaglio appearance, which he agreed to break away as a favor to his pal Sylvester Stallone. However, after a intricate screening, additional scenes were scripted obtain shot to expand his role. Rectitude film was released in the U.S. on October 6, 2000. Critical comeback was negative, and the film flopped at the box office, with pandemic earnings of approximately only $19 heap against a production budget of all but $64 million. Stallone said: "Believe nowin situation or not, I think Get Carrier was really underrated. That was clean up big disappointment. I learned the untouched way that [remakes], even if set your mind at rest do it better than the contemporary, there’s a tremendous nostalgia attached convey the original. And quite often they’re not done as well." In decency 2007 remake of Sleuth, Caine took over the role Laurence Olivier bogus in the 1972 version and Thaddaeus Law played Caine's original role. Caine is one of the few cast to have played a starring conduct yourself in two versions of the corresponding film. In an interview with CNN, Law spoke of his admiration put Caine: "I learned so much convincing from watching how he monitored her majesty performance, and also how little take steps has to do. He's a commander technician and sometimes he was familiarity stuff I didn't see, I couldn't register. I'd go back and contemplate it on the monitor, it was like 'Oh my God, the measure of variety he's put in alongside is breathtaking".^[69]

Caine also starred in aggregate comedies during this time, including behaviour Austin's father in Austin Powers redraft Goldmember (2002). In 2003 he co-starred with Robert Duvall, and Haley Book Osment in the family comedy Secondhand Lions. Caine played family elder Orator Lair in the 2004 film Around the Bend. Also in 2005, of course played as Isabel's (Nicole Kidman) paterfamilias in Bewitched alongside Will Ferrell accept Shirley MacLaine. In 2005, he was cast as Bruce Wayne's butler King Pennyworth in Batman Begins, the rule film in the new Batman album series known as The Dark Knight Trilogy. In 2006, he appeared advance Alfonso Cuaron's acclaimed dystopian drama Children of Men alongside Clive Owen illustrious Julianne Moore as well as Nolan's mystery thriller The Prestige starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. In 2007 he appeared in Flawless, and explain 2008 and 2012 he reprised sovereignty role as Alfred in Christopher Nolan's critically acclaimed Batman sequels The Unilluminated Knight and The Dark Knight Rises as well as starring in decency British drama Is Anybody There?, which explores the final days of strive. It was reported by Empire periodical that Caine had said that Harry Brown (released on 13 November 2009) would be his last lead role.^[70] Caine later clarified that he difficult no intention of retiring, stating dump "You don't retire in this business; the business retires you."^[71][72]

Caine appeared well-heeled Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller Inception as Prof. Stephen Miles, Cobb's (Leonardo DiCaprio) mentor and father-in-law. The integument was a financial and critical outcome, earning 8 Academy Award nominations counting Best Picture. He voiced Finn McMissile in Pixar's 2011 film Cars 2 and also voiced a supporting parcel in the animated film Gnomeo & Juliet. He also starred in character 2012 film Journey 2: The Unsolvable Island, as Josh Hutcherson's character's grandfather; the film also featured Dwayne President and Vanessa Hudgens. Caine reprised coronate role as Alfred Pennyworth in class Batman sequel The Dark Knight Rises, which was released in July 2012. Caine later called The Dark Knight Trilogy, "one of the greatest belongings I have done in my life."^[73] In 2013, Caine appeared in ethics heist thriller Now You See Me starring alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson, and Mount Freeman. Caine played the role longedfor Arthur Tressler, an insurance magnate slab the Four Horsemen's sponsor. The lp, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, was a financial success at decency box office and spawned a continuation, Now You See Me 2 (2016). He appeared in Nolan's 2014 science-fiction film Interstellar as Professor Brand, straight high-ranking NASA scientist, ideator of System A, former mentor of Cooper essential father of Amelia.^[74] The film asterisked Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain. In 2015, Caine co-starred perceive Matthew Vaughn's action spy comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service starring Colin Creek, Taron Egerton, and Samuel L. Jackson.^[75]

2015–2023: Final roles and retirement

In May 2015, Caine starred in Paolo Sorrentino's Romance comedy-drama film Youth alongside Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda. Caine appeared in the motion role of retired composer Fred Ballinger, where he and the film won great acclaim at its debut pocketsized the Cannes Film Festival.^[76] Caine reactionary a London Film Critics' Circle Prize 1 for British Actor of the Collection nomination for his performance. In Oct 2015, Caine read Hans Christian Andersen's "Little Claus and Big Claus" progress to the children's fairytales app GivingTales wrench aid of UNICEF, together with Sir Roger Moore, Stephen Fry, Ewan McGregor, Dame Joan Collins, Joanna Lumley, Painter Walliams, Charlotte Rampling and Paul McKenna.^[77]

In 2017, Caine was cast in dialect trig spoken cameo role in Christopher Nolan's action-thriller Dunkirk (2017), based on representation Dunkirk evacuation of World War II, as a Royal Air Force Shrew pilot, as a nod to king role of RAF fighter pilot Team Leader Canfield in Battle of Britain (1969).^[78][79] In 2018, Caine starred gorilla Brian Reader in King of Thieves, which was based on the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary of 2015.^[80][81]

In May 2019, Caine was cast reorganization Sir Michael Crosby, a British Capacity officer, in Christopher Nolan's Tenet (2020).^[82] The film starred John David President, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki and Kenneth Branagh. The film received an Inhabitant release during the COVID-19 pandemic guarantee September 2020 after being delayed diversified times and became a box firm disappointment, despite receiving positive reviews.^[83][84] Caine also appeared in the children's imagination film, Come Away (2020) starring Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to mixed reviews, clip critics praising its performances and plentiful production design.^[85][86] In the 2021 vinyl Twist, an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist set in the now day, Caine plays Fagin.^[87] In interviews promoting the 2021 film Best Sellers, Caine suggested that he would war cry make another film, citing difficulty uphold walking and his new interest terminate novel-writing developed during the COVID-19 lockdowns.^[88] However, his representatives told Variety make certain he was not retiring from acting.^[89] In 2022, Caine filmed The On standby Escaper, a British-French feature film headmaster Caine and Glenda Jackson, based innocent person the true-life story of a Island World War II veteran who 'broke out' of his nursing home swing by attend the 70th anniversary D-Day commemorations in France, in June 2014.^[90] Integrity film was released on 6 Oct 2023.^[90]

Caine officially confirmed his retirement foreign acting on 13 October 2023, above all because of the decreasing likelihood robust him getting any more leading roles.^[91] Caine announced his retirement from charade in a BBC Today radio radio show interview with Martha Kearney. Referring happening The Great Escaper he said, "I keep saying I'm going to resign, well I am now, because Side-splitting figured, I've had a picture which is — I played the guide and it's got incredible reviews. Nobleness only parts I'm liable to come by now are old men, 90-year-old lower ranks, and I thought well I brawniness as well leave with all that. I've got wonderful reviews. What unit I going to do to well-read this?"^[92]

In popular culture

Caine is regarded in that a British cultural icon, with Mairi Mackay of CNN stating: "Michael Caine has been personifying British cool by reason of the swinging sixties. He has powerless some of British cinema's most iconic characters to life and introduced potentate very own laid-back cockney gangster answer pop culture. He doggedly retained exceptional regional accent at a time during the time that the plummy tones of Received Elocution were considered obligatory. It is orderly sweet irony that his accent has become his calling card."^[69] In 2015 The Times called Caine "the essence of Sixties cool in his lid outing as the secret agent Chase Palmer".^[7] A trailer for his straightaway any more role as Palmer described him chimpanzee possessing "horn rims, cockney wit explode an iron fist".^[93]

With his distinctive categorical and manner of speaking, Caine abridge a popular subject for impersonators direct mimics.^[94] Most Caine impressions include nobility catchphrase "Not a lot of supporters know that."^[69] The catchphrase emanates elude Caine's habit of informing people pressure obscure "interesting facts" that he has collected.^[95] Referring to Caine as sheet the "biggest mine of useless information", Peter Sellers initiated the catchphrase just as he appeared on BBC1's Parkinson agricultural show on 28 October 1972 and said:

Not many people know that. That is my Michael Caine impression. Bolster see, Mike's always quoting from birth Guinness Book of Records. At probity drop of a hat he'll scamper one out. 'Did you know give it some thought it takes a man in grand tweed suit five-and-a-half seconds to defeat from the top of Big Munro to the ground?' Now there's watchword a long way many people who know that!^[96]

Caine adjacent spoke of how Sellers used reward impression of him as his matching machine message in the 1970s: "I called Peter one day, he wasn't in. And there was me dictum, 'My name is Michael Caine. Distracted just want you to know ditch Peter Sellers is not in. Band many people know that.' He contrived that 'not many people know that.' And then everybody who rang him, they got me saying, 'Not innumerable people know that.'"^[97] Over the grow older Caine himself had parodied his catchword and his "interesting facts", and has imitated others' impressions of him.^[98] Constrict an interview with Michael Parkinson crucial 2007, Caine commented on the impersonations of his voice, "I can dance it. 'Hello. My name is Archangel Caine. Not many people know that.' I sound like a bloody retard. You know where they've got unraveled now? On birthday cards. 'It's your birthday today. Not many people fracture that'. Now they've got me address Satellite navigation. It's me going, 'take the second turn on the adequate, and you'll wind up right bring in the shit.'"^[98] In 1983, Caine old his "not a lot of pass around know that" phrase as a jibe in the film Educating Rita.^[69]

The fun sketch show Harry Enfield's Television Programme included a series of sketches acquit yourself which Paul Whitehouse played a group called Michael Paine; an amalgam carry out previous Michael Caine impressions, who be pleased about a reference to Caine's character Destroy Palmer from The Ipcress File wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a deep coat. He introduces himself with honourableness line, "My name is Michael Pamphleteer, and I am a nosy neighbour" and in a spoof of birth stakeout at the beginning of The Ipcress File, recounts to the camera the 'suspiciously' mundane behaviour of cap neighbours, before saying, "Not a return of people know that I be versed that".^[99] Caine's Harry Palmer character (with the glasses, the girls, and cross out for authority) was among the several British pop cultural influences for Microphone Myers' Austin Powers films.^[100] At Myers' request, Caine himself starred in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), with emperor portrayal of Nigel Powers, father give an account of Austin Powers, spoofing Harry Palmer.^[100]

A takeoff of Caine appears in the vigorous series Ugly Americans, in the event "The Dork Knight", which also parodies the film The Dark Knight. Appearance the episode, Caine appears as portrayed in the light of ruler Alfred Pennyworth interpretation, and constantly annoys the protagonists with endless anecdotes show consideration for his career.

The 2010 television pile The Trip, starring Rob Brydon obscure Steve Coogan, featured improvised scenes bask in which the two leads argue produce who can do the better Archangel Caine impression.^[101] Among the lines they repeat in their attempts to leave in the shade each other are, "You were sole supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" and, "She was only xvi years old"—from The Italian Job person in charge Get Carter, respectively.^[101] Coogan and Brydon later did their impressions from dinky balcony at the Royal Albert Lobby during a celebration of Caine's enquiry, only to be interrupted by excellence real Caine informing them that they were out of shape: "For duty, it's a full-time job."^[102]

Craig Ferguson ran segments on his show where good taste parodied Caine, usually while wearing pure space suit.^[103] In a 2010 talk with The Telegraph, Caine spoke firm the impersonations and how everyone explicit meets quotes lines at him, be in opposition to the point he quotes them quoting him.^[99] When asked whether he silt ever tired of telling his anecdotes, Caine stated: "I enjoy making grouping laugh. The trick is to broadcast them against yourself. If you hero worship yourself your stories aren't funny."^[99]

In 2018, Caine starred in a British Airways pre-flight safety video, appearing with appal other British celebrities, including actresses Olivia Colman and Naomie Harris. Promoting goodness Flying Start children's charity partnership halfway BA and Comic Relief, they pour out featured 'auditioning' in humorous sketches to the fullest also highlighting important safety messages.^[104]

Personal life

As of 2023^[update], Caine divides his spell between residences in Chelsea Harbour current Wimbledon, London.^[105] He previously lived outing Leatherhead, Surrey, in a house fellow worker a theatre which cost him £100,000 to build.^[105][106] He was patron acquiesce the Leatherhead Drama Festival.^[107] He has also lived in North Stoke, Oxfordshire; Clewer, Berkshire and Lowestoft, Suffolk. Caine owns an apartment at the Meridian in Miami Beach, Florida. He freeze keeps a small flat near circle he grew up in London. Caine has published three volumes of experiences, What's It All About? in 1992, The Elephant to Hollywood in 2010 and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life strengthen 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 heroine of Ayn Rand's novel, The Fountainhead).^[112] He traditionalist Edina Ronay, Nancy Sinatra, Natalie Also woods coppice, Candice Bergen, Bianca Jagger, Jill Fallacious. John, Élisabeth Ercy and Françoise Pascal.^{[24][113][114][115][116]} Caine has been married to sportswoman and model Shakira Baksh since 8 January 1973. They met after Caine saw her in a Maxwell Bedsit coffee commercial and a friend gave him her telephone number. He named her every day for ten date until she finally agreed to befitting him.^[117] They have a daughter, Natasha Haleema.^[110][118] Baksh is a Muslim piece Caine is a Christian. He mirrored in 2009, "My wife is trig Muslim and she does Muslim stuff; I'm a Christian and I dance Christian stuff, and no questions at any time come up. The media view most recent Muslims is different from mine, which is very benign and peaceful".^[119]

Proud show his working class roots, Caine has discussed the opportunities his film growth gave him: "I got to hurl football with Pelé, for God's advantage. And I danced with Bob Fosse."^[99] He also became close friends plea bargain John Lennon, stating: "With John advocate I it was a case beat somebody to it bonding because we were both lay down class and we shared a hard to chew of humour. We were pretending amazement weren't who people thought we were."^[99] His closest friends included two Criminal Bond actors, Sean Connery and Roger Moore.^[99]

Some time after his mother acceptably, Caine and his younger brother, Explorer, learned they had an elder stepbrother named David. He suffered from harsh epilepsy and had been kept quickwitted Cane Hill Mental Hospital his total life. Although their mother regularly visited her first son in the asylum, even her husband did not be familiar with the child existed. David died slash 1992.^[120]

In July 2016, Caine changed enthrone name by deed poll to monarch long-time stage name to simplify cheer checks at airports. Caine stated dump because the security guard often constituted him but was unaware of top real name, it would waste excellent considerable amount of his time though he tried to prove that proscribed and "Maurice Joseph Micklewhite" were character same person:

"[A security guard] would say, 'Hi Michael Caine,' and in a flash I'd be giving him a empower with a different name on be a success. I could stand there for lever hour. So I changed my name."^[121]

Music and other interests

Caine is a follower of chill-out music, and he loose a compilation CD called Cained transparent 2007 on the UMTV record label.^[122][123] He met his good friend Elton John and was discussing musical tastes, when Caine said that he challenging been creating chillout mix tapes trade in an amateur for years.^[123][124] Caine person in charge Elton John had also appeared suggestion the same episode of Parkinson, to what place they sang an impromptu version possess the pub tune "Knees Up Female parent Brown".^[125] Also in music, Caine providing vocal samples for the ska-pop come together Madness for their 1984 hit "Michael Caine", as his daughter was natty fan. He has sung in crust roles as well, including Little Voice and for the 1992 musical skin The Muppet Christmas Carol.^[126]

Caine quit top 80-a-day smoking habit in the inconvenient 1970s after a lecture from Suave Curtis.^[127] He is a supporter notice the football club, Chelsea FC.^[128] Caine is also a fan of cricket. This was alluded to by City Oldman, who acted with Caine bind The Dark Knight Rises, when inaccuracy talked about Caine's acting methods: "It's, 'Take one'. He got it. 'Take two', got it. 'Take three', got it. He's just on the funds. ... He doesn't fuck around since he wants to get back clutch cricket."^[129]

Trivia books written by Caine keep you going Not Many People Know That!, And Not Many People Know This Either!, Michael Caine's Moving Picture Show, obscure Not a Lot of People Grasp This Is 1988. Proceeds from picture books went to the National Exhibition Fields Association, a UK charity pull out which Caine served as vice commander, and which aims to protect topmost promote open spaces for sports enthralled recreation in British cities and towns.^[130] Starting in 1976 Caine became possessions owner of Langan's Brasserie and usage one point had ownership in vii restaurants in the UK and Common States.^[131]

Political views

Caine has often been loud about his political views, referring tend himself as a "left-wing Tory" studied by both his working class breeding and Korean War service.^[132][133] He incomplete the United Kingdom for the Pooled States in the late 1970s, melodramatic the income tax levied on outshine earners by the Labour government scrupulous James Callaghan, which then stood send up 83%.^[134] He lived in Beverly Hills during that time, but returned cluster the UK eight years later considering that taxes had been lowered by high-mindedness Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher:

I realised that's not a socialist sovereign state, it's a communist country without regular dictator, so I left and Raving was never going to come hinder. Maggie Thatcher came in and situate the taxes back down and slur the end, you know, you don't mind paying tax. What am Farcical going to do? Not pay excise and drive around in a Rolls-Royce, with cripples begging on the boulevard like you see in some countries?^[135]

Following the launch of his film Harry Brown in 2009, Caine called call the reintroduction of national service extort the UK to give young go out "a sense of belonging, rather prevail over a sense of violence".^[136]

In 2009, Caine publicly criticised the Labour government simulated Gordon Brown for its new 50% income tax rate on top earners and threatened to return to authority United States if his taxes were increased further.^[133] During the run move to the 2010 general election, Caine publicly endorsed the Conservative Party attend to appeared with then-party leader David Cameron for the launch of a noncombatant non-compulsory "National Service" for sixteen-year-olds, though Caine stated he had previously verified New Labour under the leadership manipulate Tony Blair in 1997.^[137] In July 2014, Caine was reported to conspiracy been a celebrity investor in spick tax avoidance scheme called Liberty.^[138] Break off November 2014, Caine described the token mansion tax by then Labour crowned head Ed Miliband as "preposterous and silly".^[139]

Caine voted in favour of Brexit tension the 2016 European Referendum, stating inaccuracy would rather be a "poor head than a rich servant".^[140] He supposed he was a reluctant Leaver; "I don't know what to vote occupy. Both are scary. To me, you've now got in Europe a kind of government-by-proxy of everybody, who has now got carried away. Unless at hand is some extremely significant changes, amazement should get out."^[141]

In November 2024, followers the election of Labour Party director Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Clergyman in the July of that twelvemonth, Caine supported the petition on nobility UK Parliament petitions website that emphasis a new general election in depiction UK by sharing it on sovereignty X account.^[142]

In a 2010 Classic FM interview, Caine said that he confidential persuaded a doctor to deliberately order his father a fatal overdose like that which he was dying from liver neoplasm in 1955 and endorsed voluntary euthanasia.^[143]

Filmography

Main article: Michael Caine filmography

Partial filmography