Michael Caine at 80: a career in pictures

Michael Caine in a publicity shot for his first outing as spy Harry Palmer, The Ipcress File (1965)

Caine battles a zulu warrior in his 1964 breakthrough Zulu

Caine with Eva Renzi in the second Harry Palmer outing, Funeral in Berlin (1966)

With Shirley Anne Field as the eponymous ladies man in Alfie (1966)

Lounging around in the third Harry Palmer vehicle, Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

On set with Bianca Jagger for the 1969 caper movie The Italian Job

Confronting Bryan Mosley in the revenge drama Get Carter (1971)

At Clayton Windmill in West Sussex for the spy thriller The Black Windmill (1974)

With Sean Connery as colonial-era scallywags in the Rudyard Kipling adaptation The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

A victory parade in the all-star WWII epic A Bridge Too Far (1977)

Having a kickabout with Sylvester Stallone and Pelé in the POW escape classic Escape to Victory (1981)

With Valerie Perrine, playing the governor of a fictional Caribbean colony in Water (1985)

In his Oscar-winning role as a philandering husband in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Playing a flesh and blood Ebenezer Scrooge alongside a muppet cast in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

As boxing promoter Billy ‘Shiner’ Simpson in the London-set drama Shiner (2000)

Propping up the bar with Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay and David Hemmings in Last Orders (2001)

Spoofing the 60s spy heritage he helped to create in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

As Graham Greene’s reticent reporter Thomas Fowler in The Quiet American (2002)

Playing Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005)

With Jude Law in the 2007 remake of Caine’s 1972 classic Sleuth