(CNN Spanish) – Michael Caine, the British film star whose career spans eight decades and has stood out in films since…
(CNN Spanish) – Michael Caine, the British film star whose career spans eight decades and has stood out in films from “The Italian Job” to “The Dark Knight,” confirmed his retirement from acting.
The two-time Oscar winner, who is 90 years old, made the announcement this Saturday on BBC Radio 4’s “Best of Today” podcast.
“I always say I’m going to retire,” Caine said, adding, “Well, I’m going to do it now.”
He confirmed that “The Great Escaper,” which premiered earlier this month, will be his last appearance as an actor, saying: “I have played the lead role and it has incredible reviews. The only roles I’m going to get now are older men — 90-year-old men, or maybe 85, you know — and I thought I’d better go with all this. I have wonderful reviews. What am I going to do to get over this?”
“The Great Escaper,” which premiered in October, is the last film Caine will star in.
Caine starred in the film alongside the late Glenda Jackson, playing Bernard Jordan, a 90-year-old man who escapes from a nursing home to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in France.
“We had a great time on the movie and I thought, you know, why not leave now?” Caine added.
Also on the podcast, “The Great Escaper” director Oliver Parker said, “Michael has the ability to turn his performance into something more,” crediting his “charisma” and “great presence.”
Caine began his acting career on stage in the early 1950s before making his film debut in 1956.
Caine (center) plays criminal Charlie Croker in the 1969 film “The Italian Job.”
Originally named Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, Jr., he adopted the stage name Caine from the 1954 film “The Caine Mutiny,” and made it legal.
Caine has played secret agents, playboys, adventurers, teachers and assassins.
He played British spy Harry Palmer in five films, and his fame came after his first stint in the role, in the 1965 dramatic thriller “The Ipcress File.”
His next big break came a year later, when he played a promiscuous chauffeur in the 1966 romantic comedy “Alfie.”
Caine received his first Academy Award for his supporting role in the 1986 Woody Allen film “Hannah and Her Sisters,” and his second for another supporting role in the 1999 film “The Cider House Rules.”
He starred alongside Sean Connery in John Huston’s 1975 adventure film “The Man Who Would Be King”; he played a journalist in Vietnam in the 2002 Graham Greene adaptation “The Quiet American”; He also played butler Alfred Pennyworth on the big screen in the 2008 film “The Dark Knight.”
Caine was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1993 and knighted in 2000.
He has also written books because, although he stated in the podcast that he has made 160 films, “he always wanted to be a writer.” While there will be no more acting, he said, “there will be writing.”
“The thing about the process of making movies is that you have to get up at 6:30 in the morning, take a long trip learning your lines in the damn car, and then get there and work until 10 at night,” he said, adding that to write “you don’t have to get out of bed.”
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2023-10-15 14:19:41
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