Age: 93
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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
Ryan O'Rorke
for Ryan O'Rorke in IRISHMAN AND SCOTMAN
Suggested by jakubduda
Drew O'Sullivan manages to escape from prison and returns to the streets of New York after ten years behind bars to start a new life in seclusion with the help of his friends. However, his love Lucy Murphy has problems with his competitor, a Scottish gangster and the owner of several restaurants, Clyde Smith, which culminates in a shooting at her restaurant. Drew will help her and get her back into the gangster world. Drew joins back with his father Jack O'Sullivan and his Irish mob family, who quarrel with the Scottish family. Jack O'Sullivan has five sons, Drew, Conor, Noah, Charlie and Jack Jr. Brothers Cilian and Ryan O'Connor, Drew O'Sullivan, Noah O'Sullivan and Dallas Doyle (the top scorer) found themselves on the Irish side during a shootout at a restaurant in Manhattan, Charlie was killed. On the Scots' side were two sons of Smith, Oliver and Leo, as well as Lewis Stewart and Logan Thompson, all died, a situation that stirred up the worst between the two gangs, who had been fighting for decades. Meanwhile, Oscar Walsh of O'Sullivans, is killed in car in the Bronx. After Scottish Craig Robertson is offended by Brian Gallagher, Craig kills him in a fit of rage in Harlem, when Craig tries to hide the body, he was shot in the back of the head by Finn Kennedy. After Jack O'Sullivan's wife is abducted, he assembles the entire O'Sullivan gang and attacks the mansion of the Brooklyn Smith Gang. The O'Sullivans win, sitting in the garden at the end, Irish music and whiskey.
