Michael Caine

Sir Michael stars alongside Glenda Jackson in the movie, which is based on a true story.

The Great Escaper, which is due to be released later this year, will explore the true story of Bernard’s escape, which made headlines in 2014. [Oscar](/topic/oscar) winner Sir Michael stars alongside [Glenda Jackson](/topic/glenda-jackson) in the forthcoming movie, which is based on the true story of a Second World War veteran who escapes from his nursing home to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. [Michael Caine](/topic/michael-caine) starring in his latest project, The Great Escaper, has been released to celebrate his 90th birthday.

Sir Michael Caine has marked a huge milestone as the British actor turned 90 today.

Michael credits his wife for his long life saying in a candid interview with The Sun On Sunday, in 2017, said: "Without her, I’d have been dead long ago. "I haven’t decided what to do with the portrait as of yet. I hope he enjoys his birthday milestone this week." [Sir Michael Caine](/latest/michael-caine) has been created to mark his 90th birthday by a Manchester-based artist. I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day and smoke several packs of cigarettes." "I said, 'well, considering the alternative, fantastic.'"

To celebrate Michael Caine's 90th birthday, a unique mosaic portrait of the actor in one of his most famous film roles has been created.

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However, much like fellow cool dude Jean-Paul Belmondo, Caine was never overly concerned about his coolness or likeability, making him a far more dynamic actor ...

Caine says that the trick to the comedy was not only because of the “fabulous” Steve Martin but that “he was nuts and I was completely serious at all times. In fact, the synopsis of an ex-serviceman doling out justice to a vicious young street gang barely does the dark heart of the film justice. It is a mark of his magnificence as an actor that he was able to stand his own in an Olivier picture directed by the great Joseph L. Alongside some of the movie’s most iconic lines, he’s simply a welcome presence of homely respite that offers a contrasting calm, and an injection of heart. Puzzled, Caine asked a French friend of his why that was the case and he received the response, “No Frenchman could believe that an Englishman could seduce ten women.” Thanks to heartfelt performances, the true weight of that seismic moment is delivered with superb grace and poignancy. This is an emotional epic that he anchors with a simultaneous sense of wonder and humility. This gripping whodunnit might not reinvent the wheel, but it is dripping with pedigree throughout, and that craft alone is a joy to sink into. This is a craft he has been honing since he started acting after a brief spell in the military at the age of 20. He lent into the idea of himself with brilliant self-awareness that you don’t often get in Hollywood. Yes, Caine was prepared to be the likeable stud driving a project along, but he was also able to twist that on its head in a shocking minute if he needed to. For all the method and technique involved, he is proof that having the audience on board from the get-go is half the battle.

Tony Klinger and his father Michael Klinger made the iconic 60s film 'Get Carter'. Today, Tony a British legend in the film industry, shares with us his ...

I was on the set to see some of the filming and was present to see the “Rushes” or what the Americans call the “Dailies” with Mike Hodges, my dad and Michael Caine. Mintoff was swimming in the sea with his bodyguard so Klinger and Caine put on their swimsuits and the entire conversation took place with Klinger swimming around Mintoff convincing him while Caine was paddling around with a big smile on his face. Rumour has it that it was our wedding that got them to the alter very soon afterwards and both couples are still together half a century later! I was fortunate to attend the pre shoot dinner with my family, Michael Caine, Mike Hodges, Bobby Littman and Michael’s stunt double John Morris were all there in a private dining area of a famous London restaurant. I was to discover during our interview with famous film producer and agent Barry Krost that Michael had, in his early adulthood, been a bouncer at Barry’s parents hotel in the Elephant and Castle. Most of the time it was a waste of time and energy. At precisely the right moment a friend Bobby Littman was appointed to be Head of Production at MGM in the UK and he wanted a film. Klinger told Bobby about the book and he was instantly on board, but required that the lead should be played by a star. In that same square, in a flat on the opposite corner was Michael Caine who had also risen from a very humble start in a deprived part of London. It was only later he discovered that she simply threw away every shirt he wore and replaced them with newly acquired shirts from the very best suppliers at enormous cost to Michael. He entered the room and once he’d said hello to me he went to each and every member of our team and introduced himself, “Hello I’m Michael Caine, what’s your name, nice to meet you, thanks for doing this.” The crew were thrilled to meet this legendary man, but also very honoured that he paid them all his respects. I also had the pleasure of working with him for my documentaries, one about my father, Michael Klinger, entitled “The Man Who Got Carter” and more recently, our film about “Get Carter” which we’ve called “Dirty Sexy and Totally Iconic”.

From The Italian Job to the Dark Knight, Sir Michael Caine is one of our greatest living actors.

The 90-year-old actor is portraying the real-life Bernard Jordan, who escaped his care home to attend a D-Day Landings memorial.

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MICHAEL CAINE IS celebrating his 90th birthday today, with dozens of beloved movies under his belt since the 1960s. The actor himself isn't even quite sure ...

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As Sir Michael Caine turns 90 today, his rather ritzy first car, a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, is set to be auctioned; it was subsequently owned by the ...

I don’t do commercials” whilst conveniently forgetting that he was paid a six-figure sum to film a commercial for Sky television in 2013. The 35-year-old actor subsequently took great pleasure in being driven past the offending Jack Barclay salesman in his new car and flicking him a V-sign!” In an interview at that time, he added: “In order to do something good, I don’t just do work which is no good. So, to combine both of these in one fantastic motor car is incredibly rare indeed and we expect significant interest from fans around the world.” “Wandered into the renowned Jack Barclay showroom on Berkeley Square, with a handwritten shopping list which read, ‘milk, bread, newspaper, cigarettes, Rolls-Royce.’ Unkempt and unshaven, Caine was ushered off the premises, so he journeyed to Mayfair’s other Rolls-Royce dealership, H.A. Instead, in 1968, if you believe the marketing guff of H&H Classics – who are about to auction the very car he purchased, a

Sir Michael Caine, who turns 90 today, was given some hilarious advice by John Wayne when he was about to hit Hollywood stardom.

As a result, the actor would order caviar and champagne on room service and sometimes sit in the lobby trying to spot [Hollywood](https://www.express.co.uk/latest/hollywood) stars. When he asked the Western legend why, he replied: “Because I just told you, you’re going to be a star kid.” And that’s when he explained his seemingly bizarre advice. His first visit to the US was to film Gambit later that year and he'd been put up in Los Angeles’ Beverly Hills Hotel where he ended up bumping into [John Wayne](/latest/john-wayne) himself. To Caine's surprise, Duke turned to him having recognised him from the movie Alfie. But it was back in 1966 when he starred in Alfie that he finally hit the big time in [Hollywood](https://www.express.co.uk/latest/hollywood). and in walks John Wayne in a complete cowboy hat."

British actor, Michael Caine, looked dapper in this navy blue suit & tie as he posed for a portrait in 1965. March 14, 2023, 11:36AM.

The legendary British actor turns 90 today. Here, we track his fascinating journey to this point.

Two moments stand out: the bit in the churchyard where he turns to tell the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come defiantly that "a life can be made right"; and the bit where Beaker gives Scrooge his little scarf to say thanks for his charity donation, and Caine looks like he's about to burst into tears. With Caine sandwiched between Courtenay and Ray, we played a game of 'What Does This Modern London Slang Mean' which lasted 90 seconds before Winstone took my bowl of questions off me and demanded I “ask some proper questions”. On the other, he made a run of not-great Brit comedies and muddled potboilers. And yet even that was side by side with his stellar performance in The Muppet Christmas Carol in 1992. Caine played Bruce Wayne’s quasi-dad-slash-butler-slash-consigliere with a light touch and dry wit, a mixture of his cuddly Cider House Rules character Wilbur Larch and an SAS veteran who could still do you in. It was the strangest experience. As I waited outside the interview room in a luxe London hotel, they came by at irregular intervals. Then, finally, Caine got back in a groove when Christopher Nolan turned up at his house with a script for Batman Begins. On the one hand Caine made Educating Rita, Hannah and Her Sisters and Mona Lisa. Caine did what the British film industry did well: stylish larks and hard-boiled thrillers. So how do you make sense of a career that runs to at least 130 movies? Meanwhile, the French New Wave which prefigured it tended to like its leading men to be more pouty and petulant types like Jean-Paul Belmondo.

As Michael Caine turns 90, Tom Jolliffe looks at a few of the iconic actor's more bizarre B-movie choices… It's fair to say that Michael Caine has had a ...

The fourth film even goes so far as to push the notion that the shark in question is actually on a kind of Get Carter-style revenge mission. You’d probably guess that had something to do with Caine’s decision to do a film where a comic book artist loses his hand in a car accident, only for the severed hand to disappear and then come back (of its own accord) to cause terror later on. It’s great fun actually, and probably better than it has a right to be (that being said, not nearly as good as the hand skit in Evil Dead 2). He went back to Britain to make Educating Rita and Mona Lisa. In 1980 and 1981, he had a run of three B-movies. It seemed goofy, a kind of Bee-centric riff on The Birds, and then Caine popped up…much to my surprise. Quite why they made the film and why Caine choose to star in it, I couldn’t say but the film came out in 78. Now on the surface this would be the sort of ridiculous B movie of the 50’s you might have seen double featuring with an A movie, or maybe a video era trashtacular, but The Hand, whilst not brilliant, is written and directed by Oliver Stone. It’s also fair to say, that when an actor has made as many films as Sir Maurice, that he’s had his share of duds, including the ignominy of appearing in Steven Seagal’s ego eco pic On Deadly Ground. By brilliant, I mean it’s terrible but it’s also Michael Caine…in a film about a swarm of killer bees. He chose to make a film about killer bees. It’s fair to say that Michael Caine has had a productive career in his 90 years.

The comedian shared snaps with celebrating Sir Michael Caine's birthday with Tom Cruise - who skipped out on the Academy Awards just days before, ...

[It has since been revealed that he decided to give the Oscars a miss in order to avoid an 'awkward run-in with ex-wife Nicole Kidman', following their bitter divorce over 20 years ago.](/tvshowbiz/article-11854249/Tom-Cruise-skipped-Oscars-avoid-run-Nicole-Kidman-despite-Mavericks-multiple-nominations.html) Michael appeared to celebrate turning 90 with an intimate dinner - complete with A-list guests and a chocolate birthday cake Michael appeared to celebrate turning 90 with an intimate dinner - complete with A-list guests and a chocolate birthday cake.

The Oscar-winner actor played Harry Palmer in three 1960s films – The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain.

This is an interesting ‘arty’ aspect of the coin mosaics.” He was my favourite actor when I was young. At the moment I’m seeing his eyes follow me around the room and the portrait seems to change as the sun’s angle alters through the day.

Posting an Instagram picture of her and Michael at the 1979 People's Choice Awards, Mia looked back on the decades they have known each other, spanning her ...

If they had married he’d have been my son in law.' Frank took Mia's virginity and married her in Las Vegas in 1966, provoking a deluge of publicity and ridicule over the fact that he was 50 and she was all of 21. He introduced me to Woody for which i forgave him :).' In her birthday post for Michael, she wrote: 'He once played my husband. Acclaim: Michael won his first Academy Award when he and Mia played a married couple in Woody Allen's classic 1986 movie Hannah And Her Sisters (pictured) Michael won his first Academy Award when he and Mia played a married couple in Woody's classic 1986 movie Hannah And Her Sisters.

The thespian has graced screens for seven decades and counting.

Sir Michael Caine looked overjoyed as he celebrated his 90th birthday alongside Tom Cruise and David Walliams.

Michael Caine was last seen in London alongside his wife Shakira as they stepped out for dinner at The Ivy in Chelsea. Tom Cruise was all smiles as he enjoyed Michael Caine's birthday celebrations after deciding to skip the Oscars ceremony on Sunday in support of his 2022 hit film Top Gun: Maverick. Tom Cruise and Michael could be seen in hysterics from her funny monologue. Michael saw Shakira in a 1970s Maxwell House Coffee commercial and asked a friend to arrange a date between the pair and they have been together ever since. Tom Cruise, the Hollywood guest of the evening, was all smiles as he posed next to the birthday boy with his arm around him. David Walliams shared a series of pictures from Michael Caine's birthday celebrations on Instagram.

The thespian has graced screens for seven decades and counting.

It was 73 years ago when a young actor called Maurice Joseph Micklewhite first debuted in a side role opposite Richard Attenborough in the war film, Morning ...

Tom Cruise was in great spirits as on Tuesday evening after helping Sir Michael Caine celebrate his 90th birthday with a star-studded bash at London's River ...

[It has since been revealed that he decided to give the Oscars a miss in order to avoid an 'awkward run-in with ex-wife Nicole Kidman', following their bitter divorce over 20 years ago.](/tvshowbiz/article-11854249/Tom-Cruise-skipped-Oscars-avoid-run-Nicole-Kidman-despite-Mavericks-multiple-nominations.html) In her birthday post for Michael, she wrote: 'He once played my husband. If they had married he’d have been my son in law.' He introduced me to Woody for which i forgave him :).' As Sir Michael Caine turns 90, a look back at the Cockney acting legend's incredible life and times in pictures ](/tvshowbiz/article-11862149/As-Sir-Michael-Caine-turns-90-look-Cockney-acting-legends-incredible-life.html) [MailOnline looks back at the very best of Sir Michael - from humble beginnings in working class Rotherhithe, to Hollywood and beyond. I became very good friends with Shakira with his wife. While Tom appeared happy to celebrate Michael's birthday in the UK, he appeared less keen to get suited and booted for the biggest night in film over the weekend. Great night and amazing company.' ](/tvshowbiz/article-11862149/As-Sir-Michael-Caine-turns-90-look-Cockney-acting-legends-incredible-life.html) And Mission Impossible star Tom certainly appeared to have had a grand time socialising with unlikely pals as he couldn't keep the smile off his face as he later made his way outside. Many happy returns: Meanwhile birthday boy Michael cut a smart figure as he left his party using the help of a walker after celebrating with a group of pals including David Walliams and Denise Welch While Tom and Michael have known each other for years through the acting circuit - and starred in 2002's Austin Powers in Goldmember together - David and Michael appeared in 2021's Twist together.

Top Gun: Maverick” actor Tom Cruise decided to skip this year's Oscars, but hecouldn't pass up an opportunity to celebrate Michael Caine's 90th birthday.

[reportedly members](https://pagesix.com/2018/11/08/nicole-kidman-bella-and-connor-cruise-chose-to-be-scientologists) of the [ Church of Scientology,](https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/tom-cruises-journey-from-scientology-nut-to-top-gun-hero/) like [their dad, Cruise](https://nypost.com/2022/06/13/leah-remini-reminds-top-gun-fans-tom-cruise-is-a-scientologist/). [told the Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11854249/Tom-Cruise-skipped-Oscars-avoid-run-Nicole-Kidman-despite-Mavericks-multiple-nominations.html) on Monday. [continues to recover from major spinal surgery](https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/michael-caine-89-seen-out-and-about-following-major-spinal-surgery/) to treat spinal stenosis — a condition caused by the narrowing of the spinal canal, resulting in back and neck pain. [sparking speculation that he was set to retire](https://pagesix.com/2021/10/16/michael-caine-is-not-retiring/). [wrote on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpye3ruDG95/) alongside a series of pictures from the dinner. [“Top Gun: Maverick”](https://nypost.com/2023/03/11/these-oscar-best-picture-winners-wouldnt-get-made-in-2023/) actor was noticeably absent from the [2023 Academy Awards](https://nypost.com/2023/03/12/oscars-2023-live-updates-full-list-of-winners-and-nominees/) on Sunday, despite the blockbuster film being nominated for six awards.

Tom Cruise celebrated Sir Michael Caine turning 90 and appeared to be enjoying the bash, which came just days after he avoided the Oscars ceremony despite ...

Other pictures shared by David included a snap of Sir Michael taking to the microphone to address the party goers, while another showed off his chocolate cake with multi-coloured candles. [miss out on the Oscar](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/breaking-oscars-2023-full-list-29439009) and so decided to "get on with doing what he does best". [Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11854249/Tom-Cruise-skipped-Oscars-avoid-run-Nicole-Kidman-despite-Mavericks-multiple-nominations.html). [spent the evening in an igloo](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/tom-cruise-snubbed-oscars-favour-29450795). [David Walliams](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/david-walliams), who later shared the image to his [Tom Cruise](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/tom-cruise) was all smiles as he posed for a picture alongside birthday boy [Sir Michael Caine](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/michael-caine).