MICHAEL CAINE
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About me
London, United Kingdom
Born Maurice Micklewhite in London, Michael Caine was the son of a fish-market porter and a charlady. He left school at 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 The Caine Mutiny (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 1964 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 The Ipcress File (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-'60s 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), Funeral in Berlin (1966), Play Dirty (1969), Battle of Britain (1969), Too Late the Hero (1970), The Last Valley (1971) and especially Get Carter (1971), he seemed to take on roles in below-average films, simply for the money he could by then command. There were some gems amongst the dross, however. He gave a magnificent performance opposite Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and turned in a solid one as a German colonel in The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Educating Rita (1983) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (for which he won his first Oscar) were highlights of the 1980s, while more recently Little Voice (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999) (his second Oscar) and Last Orders (2001) have been widely acclaimed. .
Born Maurice Micklewhite in London, Michael Caine was the son of a fish-market porter and a charlady. He left school at 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 The Caine Mutiny (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 1964 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 The Ipcress File (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-'60s 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), Funeral in Berlin (1966), Play Dirty (1969), Battle of Britain (1969), Too Late the Hero (1970), The Last Valley (1971) and especially Get Carter (1971), he seemed to take on roles in below-average films, simply for the money he could by then command. There were some gems amongst the dross, however. He gave a magnificent performance opposite Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and turned in a solid one as a German colonel in The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Educating Rita (1983) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (for which he won his first Oscar) were highlights of the 1980s, while more recently Little Voice (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999) (his second Oscar) and Last Orders (2001) have been widely acclaimed. .
Credit
FILM
MR. MORGAN'S LAST LOVE - PRE-PRODUCTION
MICHAEL CAINE
SANDRA NETTELBECK
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES - FILMING
ALFRED
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND - POST-PRODUCTION
GRANDFATHER
BRAD PEYTON
INCEPTION
MILES
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
HARRY BROWN
HARRY BROWN
DANIEL BARBER
IS ANYBODY THERE?
CLARENCE
JOHN CROWLEY
THE DARK KNIGHT
ALFRED
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
SLEUTH
ANDREW
KENNETH BRANAGH
FLAWLESS
HOBBS
MICHAEL RADFORD
THE PRESTIGE
CUTTER
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
CHILDREN OF MEN
JASPER
ALFONSO CUARóN
THE WEATHER MAN
ROBERT SPRITZEL
GORE VERBINSKI
BEWITCHED
NIGEL BIGELOW
NORA EPHRON
BATMAN BEGINS
ALFRED
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
AROUND THE BEND
HENRY LAIR
JORDAN ROBERTS
THE STATEMENT
PIERRE BROSSARD
NORMAN JEWISON
SECONDHAND LIONS
GARTH
TIM MCCANLIES
THE ACTORS
ANTHONY O MALLEY
CONOR MCPHERSON
QUICKSAND
JAKE MELLOWS
JOHN MACKENZIE
THE QUIET AMERICAN
THOMAS FOWLER
PHILLIP NOYCE
AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER
NIGEL POWERS
JAY ROACH
LAST ORDERS
JACK
FRED SCHEPISI
MISS CONGENIALITY
VICTOR MELLING
DONALD PETRIE
GET CARTER
CLIFF BRUMBY
STEPHEN KAY
SHINER
BILLY SHINER SIMPSON
JOHN IRVIN
QUILLS
DR. ROYER-COLLARD
PHILIP KAUFMAN
THE DEBTORS
MICHAEL CAINE
EVI QUAID
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
DR. WILBUR LARCH
LASSE HALLSTRöM
IT ALL CAME TRUE
MAX GALE
PETER YATES
LITTLE VOICE
RAY SAY
MARK HERMAN
SHADOW RUN
HASKELL
GEOFFREY REEVE
MIDNIGHT IN SAINT PETERSBURG
HARRY PALMER
DOUGLAS JACKSON
BLOOD AND WINE
VICTOR VIC SPANSKY
BOB RAFELSON
BULLET TO BEIJING
HARRY PALMER
GEORGE MIHALKA
WORLD WAR II: WHEN LIONS ROARED
JOSEPH V. STALIN
JOSEPH SARGENT
ON DEADLY GROUND
MICHAEL JENNINGS
STEVEN SEAGAL
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
EBENEZER SCROOGE
BRIAN HENSON
BLUE ICE
HARRY ANDERS
RUSSELL MULCAHY
NOISES OFF...
LLOYD FELLOWES
PETER BOGDANOVICH
BULLSEYE!
SIDNEY LIPTON/DOCTOR HICKLAR
MICHAEL WINNER
MR. DESTINY
MIKE / MR. DESTINY
JAMES ORR
A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM
GRAHAM MARSHALL
JAN EGLESON
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
LAWRENCE JAMIESON
FRANK OZ
WITHOUT A CLUE
SHERLOCK HOLMES
THOM EBERHARDT
SURRENDER
SEAN STEIN
JERRY BELSON
JAWS: THE REVENGE
HOAGIE NEWCOMBE
JOSEPH SARGENT
THE WHISTLE BLOWER
FRANK JONES
SIMON LANGTON
THE FOURTH PROTOCOL
JOHN PRESTON
JOHN MACKENZIE
HALF MOON STREET
LORD SAM BULBECK
BOB SWAIM
MONA LISA
MORTWELL
NEIL JORDAN
SWEET LIBERTY
ELLIOTT JAMES
ALAN ALDA
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
ELLIOT
WOODY ALLEN
THE HOLCROFT COVENANT
NOEL HOLCROFT
JOHN FRANKENHEIMER
WATER
GOVERNOR BAXTER THWAITES
DICK CLEMENT
THE JIGSAW MAN
PHILIP KIMBERLY/SERGEI KUZMINSKY
TERENCE YOUNG
BLAME IT ON RIO
MATTHEW HOLLIS
STANLEY DONEN
BEYOND THE LIMIT
CHARLEY FORTNUM, CONSUL
JOHN MACKENZIE
EDUCATING RITA
DR. FRANK BRYANT
LEWIS GILBERT
DEATHTRAP
SIDNEY BRUHL
SIDNEY LUMET
VICTORY
CAPT. JOHN COLBY - THE PLAYERS: ENGLAND
JOHN HUSTON
THE HAND
JONATHAN LANSDALE
OLIVER STONE
DRESSED TO KILL
DOCTOR ROBERT ELLIOTT
BRIAN DE PALMA
THE ISLAND
BLAIR MAYNARD
MICHAEL RITCHIE
BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
CAPTAIN MIKE TURNER
IRWIN ALLEN
ASHANTI
DR. DAVID LINDERBY
RICHARD FLEISCHER
CALIFORNIA SUITE
SIDNEY COCHRAN
HERBERT ROSS
THE SWARM
BRAD CRANE
IRWIN ALLEN
SILVER BEARS
DOC FLETCHER
IVAN PASSER
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
LIEUTENANT COLONEL J.O.E. VANDELEUR
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED
COLONEL STEINER
JOHN STURGES
HARRY AND WALTER GO TO NEW YORK
ADAM WORTH
MARK RYDELL
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
PEACHY CARNEHAN
JOHN HUSTON
THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN
LEWIS
JOSEPH LOSEY
THE WILBY CONSPIRACY
JIM KEOGH
RALPH NELSON
PEEPER
LESLIE C. TUCKER
PETER HYAMS
THE DESTRUCTORS
JOHN DERAY
ROBERT PARRISH
THE BLACK WINDMILL
MAJ. JOHN TARRANT
DON SIEGEL
SLEUTH
MILO TINDLE
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ
PULP
MICKEY KING
MIKE HODGES
X, Y AND ZEE
ROBERT BLAKELEY
BRIAN G. HUTTON
KIDNAPPED
ALAN BRECK
DELBERT MANN
GET CARTER
JACK CARTER
MIKE HODGES
THE LAST VALLEY
THE CAPTAIN
JAMES CLAVELL
TOO LATE THE HERO
PVT. TOSH HEARNE
ROBERT ALDRICH
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
SQUADRON LEADER CANFIELD
GUY HAMILTON
THE ITALIAN JOB
CHARLIE CROKER
PETER COLLINSON
PLAY DIRTY
CAPT. DOUGLAS
ANDRé DE TOTH
THE MAGUS
NICHOLAS URFE
GUY GREEN
DEADFALL
HENRY STUART CLARKE
BRYAN FORBES
BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN
HARRY PALMER
KEN RUSSELL
WOMAN TIMES SEVEN
HANDSOME STRANGER - SEGMENT - SNOW
VITTORIO DE SICA
HURRY SUNDOWN
HENRY WARREN
OTTO PREMINGER
FUNERAL IN BERLIN
HARRY PALMER
GUY HAMILTON
GAMBIT
HARRY TRISTAN DEAN
RONALD NEAME
THE WRONG BOX
MICHAEL FINSBURY
BRYAN FORBES
ALFIE
ALFIE
LEWIS GILBERT
THE IPCRESS FILE
HARRY PALMER
SIDNEY J. FURIE
ZULU
LIEUTENANT GONVILLE BROMHEAD
CY ENDFIELD
THE WRONG ARM OF THE LAW
POLICE STATION PC - UNCREDITED
CLIFF OWEN
SOLO FOR SPARROW
PADDY MOONEY
GORDON FLEMYNG
THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE
CHECKPOINT POLICEMAN - UNCREDITED
VAL GUEST
THE BULLDOG BREED
SAILOR IN CINEMA FIGHT - UNCREDITED
ROBERT ASHER
FOXHOLE IN CAIRO
WEBER
JOHN LLEWELLYN MOXEY
BREAKOUT
PRISONER WITH PIN-UP - UNCREDITED
DON CHAFFEY
ROOM 43
MAN GETTING MARRIED - UNCREDITED
ALVIN RAKOFF
THE TWO-HEADED SPY
GESTAPO AGENT
ANDRE DE TOTH
THE KEY
BIT PART - UNCREDITED
CAROL REED
A WOMAN OF MYSTERY
MINOR ROLE - UNCREDITED
ERNEST MORRIS
CARVE HER NAME WITH PRIDE
EXTRA - UNCREDITED
LEWIS GILBERT
HOW TO MURDER A RICH UNCLE
GILRONY
NIGEL PATRICK, AND 1 MORE CREDIT
THE STEEL BAYONET
BIT PART - UNCREDITED
MICHAEL CARRERAS
HELL IN KOREA
PVT. LOCKYER
JULIAN AMYES
PANIC IN THE PARLOR
SAILOR - UNCREDITED
GORDON PARRY
OPERATION DISASTER
TEABOY - UNCREDITED - UNCONFIRMED
ROY WARD BAKER
TV
FREEDOM: A HISTORY OF US
EVERETT, EDWARD / LORD CORNWALLIS / NERWSPAPER EDITOR
PHILIP KUNHARDT JR.
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
CAPTAIN NEMO
ROD HARDY
MANDELA AND DE KLERK
F.W. DE KLERK
JOSEPH SARGENT
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MICHAEL CAINE
GEORGE SCHLATTER
JEKYLL
DR. HENRY JEKYLL / MR. EDWARD HYDE
DAVID WICKES
JACK THE RIPPER
CHIEF INSP. FREDERICK ABBERLINE
DAVID WICKES
ITV SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE
CORNELIUS
N/A
MALE OF THE SPECIES
CORNELIUS
CHARLES JARROTT
ITV PLAY OF THE WEEK
GEORGE GRANT / PC WIMBUSH / WILLIE MOSSOP
N/A
HAMLET AT ELSINORE
HORATIO
PHILIP SAVILLE
FIRST NIGHT
JOHNNY / REGGIE DOWNES
N/A
THE ARTHUR HAYNES SHOW
N/A
ARTHUR HAYNES
THE EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERY THEATRE
PADDY MOONEY
N/A
DRAMA 61-67
ARTHUR GREEN
N/A
BBC SUNDAY-NIGHT PLAY
PAUL LATIMER
N/A
OPERATION FANTAIL
LEADING SEAMAN HILL
GERALD WILTSHIRE
THE YOUNGER GENERATION
RAY THE RAVER
N/A
ARMCHAIR THEATRE
HELMSMAN
N/A
WALK A CROOKED MILE
POLICE CONSTABLE
N/A
THE COMPARTMENT
YOUNG MAN
JOHN MCGRATH
NO WREATH FOR THE GENERAL
POLICE CONSTABLE
N/A
GOLDEN GIRL
DETECTIVE
LARRY FORRESTER
DEADLINE MIDNIGHT
TED DRAKE
N/A
KNIGHT ERRANT LIMITED
PHOTOGRAPHER
DEREK BENNETT, ERIC FAWCETT, AND 6 MORE CREDITS
WILLIAM TELL
MAX, NUMBER 6 / SGT. WIENER
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
DIXON OF DOCK GREEN
BROCKLEHURST / INDIAN PEDLAR / TUFTY MORRIS
TED WILLIS
TELEVISION PLAYWRIGHT
EXTERIOR GUARD
N/A
BBC SUNDAY-NIGHT THEATRE
COURT ORDERLY / FIGHTER / THIRD P.C
N/A
THE VISE
FOLSHAM
RICHARD LESTER, DAVID MACDONALD, AND 1 MORE CREDIT
THE VISE
FOLSHAM
RICHARD LESTER, DAVID MACDONALD, AND 1 MORE CREDIT
NAVY LOG
THE FIELD
SAMUEL GALLU
MISTER CHARLESWORTH
DUSTY
N/A
ESCAPE
BILL
N/A
BLOOD MONEY
FIGHTER
RALPH NELSON
THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY
TAFFY
N/A
THE ADVENTURES OF SIR LANCELOT
THIRD KNIGHT
BERNARD KNOWLES, ANTHONY SQUIRE
VOICE OVER
CARS 2: THE VIDEO GAME
FINN MCMISSILE
DAVID BOAT, LARRY THE CABLE GUY AND MICHAEL CAINE
CARS 2
FINN MCMISSILE
JOHN LASSETER, BRAD LEWIS
GNOMEO
LORD REDBRICK
KELLY ASBURY
BATMAN BEGINS
ALFRED PENNYWORTH
BOB KANE (CHARACTERS), DAVID S. GOYER, AND 2 MORE CREDITS
Skills
Dance: Ballet, Ballroom, Chinese, English, Folk & Traditional, Korean Latin America, Salsa, Swing, Tap, Tango
Singing: Choral / Choir, Folk, Musical Theatre, Operatic
Sports: Baseball, Bicycling, Cricket, Fencing, Golf, Hiking, Judo, Karate, Rowing, Rugby
Musical Instruments: Piano, Violin
Language: English, Mandarin, Welsh
Accents: Mandarin, Scottish, Vietnamese, Welsh
Additional: Firearms, Hosting, Martial Arts, Martial Arts Weapons