Michael Caine at 80: a career in pictures
As Sir Michael Caine turns 80, we look back over some visual highlights from his bountiful career.
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Michael Caine in a publicity shot for his first outing as spy Harry Palmer, The Ipcress File (1965)
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Caine battles a zulu warrior in his 1964 breakthrough Zulu
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Caine with Eva Renzi in the second Harry Palmer outing, Funeral in Berlin (1966)
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With Shirley Anne Field as the eponymous ladies man in Alfie (1966)
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Lounging around in the third Harry Palmer vehicle, Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
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On set with Bianca Jagger for the 1969 caper movie The Italian Job
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Confronting Bryan Mosley in the revenge drama Get Carter (1971)
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At Clayton Windmill in West Sussex for the spy thriller The Black Windmill (1974)
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With Sean Connery as colonial-era scallywags in the Rudyard Kipling adaptation The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
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A victory parade in the all-star WWII epic A Bridge Too Far (1977)
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Having a kickabout with Sylvester Stallone and Pelé in the POW escape classic Escape to Victory (1981)
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With Valerie Perrine, playing the governor of a fictional Caribbean colony in Water (1985)
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In his Oscar-winning role as a philandering husband in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
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Playing a flesh and blood Ebenezer Scrooge alongside a muppet cast in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
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As boxing promoter Billy ‘Shiner’ Simpson in the London-set drama Shiner (2000)
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Propping up the bar with Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay and David Hemmings in Last Orders (2001)
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Spoofing the 60s spy heritage he helped to create in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
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As Graham Greene’s reticent reporter Thomas Fowler in The Quiet American (2002)
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Playing Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005)
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With Jude Law in the 2007 remake of Caine’s 1972 classic Sleuth