Michael Caine
14 March, 1933
| 1.88 m
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Biography
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of working-class jobs before joining the British army and serving in Korea during the Korean War, where he saw combat. Upon his return to England, he gravitated toward the theater and got a job as an assistant stage manager. He adopted the name of Caine on the advice of his agent, taking it from a marquee that advertised Bunt na okręcie (1954). In the years that followed, he worked in more than 100 television dramas, with repertory companies throughout England and eventually in the stage hit "The Long and the Short and the Tall".Zulu (1964), the epic retelling of a historic 19th-century battle in South Africa between British soldiers and Zulu warriors, brought Caine to international attention. Instead of being typecast as a low-ranking Cockney soldier, he played a snobbish, aristocratic officer. Although "Zulu" was a major success, it was the role of Harry Palmer in Teczka Ipcress (1965) and the title role in Alfie (1966) that made Caine a star of the first magnitude. He epitomized the new breed of actor in mid-1960s England, the working-class bloke with glasses and a down-home accent. However, after initially starring in some excellent films, particularly in the 1960s, including Gambit (1966), Pogrzeb w Berlinie (1966), Brudna gra (1969), Bitwa o Anglię (1969), Spóźniony bohater (1970), Ostatnia dolina (1971) and especially Dopaść Cartera (1971), he seemed to take on roles in below-average films, simply for the money he could by then command.However, there were some gems amongst the dross. He gave a magnificent performance... show more
Movies
An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.
In 1960s London, an elderly janitor convinces a glass-ceiling constrained executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.
A blowout firefighter takes on an environmentally destructive oil corporation by causing many deaths and explosions in Alaska.
A German plot to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
In London, a wisecracking spy investigates the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists while dealing with the constraints of his agency's bureaucracy.
A shy reclusive lady is convinced by an invisible entity to sing. Subsequently, she finds herself noticed by a sleazy talent agent and her talent being showcased on-stage. She also meets a kind but nervous man who becomes her best friend.
A true crime movie about a crew of retired crooks who pull off a major heist in London's jewelry district. What starts off as their last criminal hurrah, quickly turns into a brutal nightmare due to greed.
Unrepentant ladies' man Alfie Elkins gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle in swinging 1960's London. Sir Michael Caine's breakthrough movie role.
A struggling playwright invites a young writer to his home to discuss a script, but the meeting spirals into a deadly game of deception and betrayal.
An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
Unhappy Larry Burrows sees what his life could have been like if he had made that winning home run as a teenager.
He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French. She's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?
The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord, Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
A travelling theater group find so much action going on behind-the-scenes, they almost ruin the performances.
Best friends and their daughters vacation in Rio de Janeiro only for one to fall for the other's daughter.
A drunken Sherlock Holmes is really just a cover for the real detective, Dr. Watson.
John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.
Wealthy wine dealer and failed family man Alex commits a robbery to make money for his fledgling business, but things become complicated when his wife Suzanne interferes.