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Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.; 14 March 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 after The Great Escaper (2023).
Michael Caine
Alfred Pennyworth
for Alfred Pennyworth in Batman TV show
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Bruce Wayne is the only child of the millionaire couple Thomas and Martha Wayne, when, at the age of eight, his parents were murdered after an assault. Bruce was deeply traumatized, and his life was never the same, Bruce was raised by is butler Alfred Pennyworth. Although a millionaire, Bruce did not take advantage of the comforts and luxuries he could have enjoyed. He spent his youth obsessed with vengeance and prevented the tragedy that had afflicted his parents from occurring with any other innocent. Bruce was stubborn to devote the rest of his life to fighting criminals and protecting innocents as a vigilante. He left Gotham City and traveled to various parts of the world, learning arts and techniques that could be useful in his goal, such as martial combat, investigation, disguise, self control, etc. He returned to Gotham years later, already an adult, determined to use everything he had learned to fight crime as a vigilante, Bruce tried at first to be an anonymous vigilante, but was almost arrested and killed. Back in his mansion, Bruce saw a Bat cross the window and this gave him the inspiration that he would have to put fear in the criminals, pretending to be a supernatural being, like a BatMan. So Bruce excavated the cave below his mansion, creating his secret headquarters, the bat-cave; diverted money and technology from their companies and fortune to set up an arsenal of weapons and vehicles. He created his Bat uniform, acting as a night watchman with a supernatural and demonic appearance, mixed with darkness.
