Top 10 Michael Caine Performances
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- Top 10 Michael Caine Performances
He's one of a kind, and one of the world's best loved actors. For this list, we're counting down the finest, most influential and most memorable Michael Caine movie roles. Expect Gangster flicks aplenty, some chaotic car chase scenes, some of cinema's most iconic one-liners, and some of film's most famous characters. From Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to Harry Brown, with the likes of The Italian Job, Alfie, The Ipcress File and Get Carter thrown into the mix as well - this countdown is a proper class act. Cockney accents, at the ready.
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#10. Lawrence Jamieson
#9. Peachy Carnehan
#8. Harry Brown
#7. Elliot
#6. Doctor Robert Elliott
#5. Alfie Elkins
#4. Charlie Croker
#3, #2, #1: ??? - บันเทิง
What do you think should have been number 1?
You nailed it with Get Carter.
ZULU!!! Classic
Not sure about Get Carter, Caine is a lot more well known for his roles in the Iprucus Files, or Sleuth.. Get Carter on the top 10 list, yes. But I think you are reaching here to place Get Carter number 1
Alfie or the Italian Job.
Get carter was his best of all time
love this man. he decided, in the beginning of his career, not to give up his Cocney accent ( like Roger Moore did), and is almost always far better then the movies he is in. Michael Caine is one of the best actors ever.
Always played the best east end gangster
Alfred Pennyworth Is An HONRABLE MENTION WHATS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE
Not even an honorable mention. I assume you've only seen a few of his films. Otherwise, you'd know how silly your comment is.
He was already well established by the time he played alfred. Even tho hes great as alfred too. Idk im rambling
Michael Cane is a true legend you don't get many actors or people for that matter who are of his calibre anymore
His calibre? The guy is well overrated he dosent have any range in him whatsoever. He always plays the same bloody character. Overrated
@@sexydudeuk2172 not exacly . 130 Movies he played . It's just his accent that cannot make him pose different.
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You haven't watched all of his films then, because youre wrong.
@@sexydudeuk2172 Always plays the same character? You really need to watch more movies that has him in it. He's not overrated, he's a legend alright
Caine is such a legend who's films will live on forever!
My late wife was his house insurance agent.She told me he insured a rug for $100,000, twice the value of our house in 1982.Great actor and Englishman,and always paid his premium on time. 👍 👍
He was the first actor I figured out was in multiple movies. I Watched Cars 2 in 2011 where he voice acted Finn McMissile (my favourite character in that movie), and then a few months later when I saw him in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, I heard him speak a few lines as Alexander before shouting "FINN!! IT'S FINN MCMISSILE MOMMY" at the top of my lungs in the middle of a movie theater. Few bad looks from everyone else, some blushed faces on my parents, and a happy 9-year-old me for finding the connection. I was proud of myself.
Im proud of you too
Have always loved Michael Caine as an actor...from when I was younger til now. One of the greats. So glad we can still own alot of his older films on DVD, etc. Forever a top notch performer..who will always be remembered 🙂🙂💟💟
He’d be great as THE DOCTOR in doctor who!
Sign him up!
Dunno, he's a tad old for such an energetic role.
Most of The Doctors have been relatively old
Michael Caine is 84. Hartnell and Capaldi are both the actors who were oldest when they started, and they were 55. Caine would have a greater age difference with these two than the age difference between these two and Matt Smith.
Yeah maybe you're right
Alexander Taylor. I have to agree.
He could maybe do it for just 1 series. I can live in hope! 😁
he was awesome as Uncle Garth in Secondhand Lions!
Yes that deserved to make this list.
Sometimes I have to wonder whether or not these people actually watch the movies they're basing reviews on. It's not rocket science to figure out in The Italian Job, he's not buying the car. It was garaged while he was doing locked up. Part of the scene was him distracting the garage clerk while he recovers his thieves tools before discussing the garage bill. How do you confuse all that with 'buying a new car' if you actually watch the damn movie????
I'm glad Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is mentioned. Great film.
You put Zulu in an honourable mention? Christ
MUST AGREE WITH YOU MATE ZULU AND THE ITALIAN JOB SHOULD BE JOINT FIRST,STAY SAFE AND PEACE
Ya an what about second hand lions that was a great movie
Well what do you expect it’s WatchMojo
How dare you leave out Scrooge from The Muppets Christmas Carol!!!
Michael Caine is one the best actors . Excellent performance . distinctive Cockney accent, and realistic . Love his movies.
Michael Caine should had got a Oscar nomination for A Muppet's Christmas Carol.
Michael Caine served in the army his duty. We in Helsinki remember him with his drunken fist fight with a Finnish sailor and after they shared a good stiff drink. Thats the Man!
His turn as Prof. Brand in Interstellar is certainly worthy of an honourable mention. I'm not sure there's been a more emotionally weighty scene in Caine's career than Brand's deathbed scene.
Loved Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth - he had such a presence as a man who's watching Bruce Wayne do something he feels is right, but may wind up killing himself doing.
If like to also praise Mr. Caine for his turn as Ebeneezer Scrooge in "The Muppet Christmas Carol". He's wonderfully wicked as miserly Scrooge, and really magical once Ebeneezer finds the Christmas spirit - and his heart - again.
Zulu was his break out role.
As my ancestor GOnville Bromhead
My favorite comedy drama with Michael Caine is "Blame it on Rio" .I still laugh out loud at a couple of the scenes.
It's a fairly good list but his role of Bromhead in Zulu should be more than an honourable mention. It was his first major role, he blagged the audition about being able to do an upper class accent and the film is awesome.
Funky Monkey1886 The Zulu film was based off a real battle (Battle of Roarke's Drift) and there was an actual Gonville Bromhead (My ancestor)
@@RyanBromhead503 wait, that awesome to hear man.
Not his best performance but loved him in the movie Second Hand Lions if i remember it is the first movie he made where he had an American accent, Second Hand Lions is a great family movie and quite funny.
thepayne78 that movie is gold
I'm too young to have been in love with Michael Caine but I remember all the grown up women swooning over him. I never saw what the big deal was. Many many years later, I was walking down the street and Michael Caine and his wife came strolling by.... OMG !! he was a mature man by then but holey moley, he was SOOO attractive !!! Very tall, very manly, very well dressed and drop dead handsome !!! And his wife is absolutely GORGEOUS !!!
I just watched get Carter yesterday what a masterpiece
Masterpiece is correct👍
I absolutely loved get Carter.
The Eagle has landed and Educating Rita should be on it
The Whistle blower
The man NEVER blinks.
I've seen him in many movies before, but last week when i watch children of men that's where I appreciate his performance he, he somehow gives soothing feeling especially playing jasper.
Michael is truly living legend .He still in contunues to act in very well received movies like most recently tenet.
Michael Cain the greatest man ever lived in my book.
Loved all his movies.
Scrooge? The muppets Christmas carol? Not even in the honorable mentions?!!!
All the films on this list are far better
James Wood no not even close
@WatchMojoUK (and WatchMojo in general) despise Christianity. I'm appalled they didn't feature The Muppets' Christmas Carol.
I know right.. pointed that out immediately after seeing number one…. muppet Christmas carol is one of my all time favorite films. Because of Michael Caine and the brilliance of his performance.
Really? Interesting factoid
This has made me want to rewatch all his early films.
If you go old movies my personal favorite were,”ZULU” and,”The Eagle Has Landed” both classics, love them!
I like his Nigel Powers performance, I thank you
The Battle of Britain
Too small a role . Why not The Eagle Has Landed?
I think Harry Brown maybe should have been number one. It’s not often you get such quiet and sympathetic menace like that. I would also have included Youth and Educating Rita, but it’s difficult to know where they would have slotted in with this list.
Get Carter is definitely my number 1 too . I also liked him in lesser known films like The Island , Swarm and Sweet Liberty ( with Alan Alda from Mash ) .
Ipcress was my first experience of Caine... after that, I was hooked!
Michael Caine said in a 1983 interview that Educating Rita was his best performance to date. I'm inclined to agree with him.
Though I saw Sleuth for the first time last night and I was hooked for the entire 2hrs20.
Woah… Educating Rita??? Or even Little Voice!
Italian Job should have been #1
I agree
@@runjinoI agree This is the south preservation society get your skates on mate love the italian job (1969)
Jamie Mason fucking legendary isn’t it mate? Though it’s ‘the self preservation society’ not ‘south’
I had the pleasure to have a brief chat with Mr. Brian W Cook once in Berkhamsted who worked with him on early movies and told me that Micheal Caine despite the fact that he was a bit demanding he was one of the few who could pull it off with ease, rating him one of the best in the business.
They also forgot his performance in Battle of Britain, an outstanding film indeed. And the scene of him sitting in his spitfire waiting to take off. "What do you want us to do flight, stand down or take off. The engines are overheating and so am I".
How is Zulu not number one, where’s his appearance in the Battle of Britain
That's what I was thinking. Zulu was Michael Caines' first role (as my ancestor Gonville Bromhead)
@@RyanBromhead503 are u rlly related to that guy
@@benijager1372 Yes I am related to Gonville Bromhead
Sorry but ummm! GET CARTER
I think you could of put his "Battle of Britain" role in Honourable mentions, he did fantastic in that film.
You know your an awesome Performer when at 3 of your Movies have been remade (Alfie,Italian job and Get Carter)
Sleuth was remade too, and he was in the remake. Playing the part Olivier had in the original.
How is Caine’s performance as Alfred just an honorable mention?! That might be my favorite performance from him
Brilliant choices, well done...
Spot on great list
The first movie I watched him in was The Cider House Rules, and that is still one of my favorite performances of his. And I was Missing Educating Rita and Scrooge from Muppets Christmas Carol in at least the honorable mentions.
yes. Cider House Rules was a very good movie.
Zulu and The Man Who Would Be King are my favorite movies.
SIR MICHAEL CANE
with an i tho
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Sleuth was with out a doubt the best!
Michael Caine as Lawrence Jamieson in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" is my favourite role of his.
NO HES DR VON DER WHATEVER?PURE CLASS.
Every Michael Caine film is either brilliant or fkn brilliant.
Consider The Swarm, The Island, Blame It On Rio or On Deadly Ground and rethink that statement
I actually liked him in interstellar
John Preston in The Fourth Protocol.
Yep definitely Get Carter no 1.I would of liked to have seen Mona Lisa get a mention!!
“You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off”
Loved the Italian job😂😂. Should’ve been number 1 in my opinion
Im american and i love michael caine
I'm Americaine and I love Michael Can.
Exactly! Get Carter!
Great number 1
I won't claim that these roles are necessarily better than the ones on the list, but here are a few that I enjoyed:
:Lloyd Fellows--Noises Off: This was a fun ensemble piece about a play that is going increasingly off the rails with each iteration, thanks largely to the conflicts among the cast, director and assistants. Caine played the director who gets sucked into the madness and has some wonderfully comic moments throughout the film.
Sydney Bruhl--Deathtrap: Based on a play, this film features Caine as a Broadway producer who has a run of flops, but runs across a manuscript that is a surefire hit. This is the setup for murder and mayhem and quite a few plot twists. Caine did a great job of portraying the somewhat over the hill producer who desperately wants a return to glory.
Alfred Pennyworth--Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Dark Knight Returns: This should have been more than an honorable mention, since Caine's Alfred did a great job of attempted to ground the increasingly erratic Bruce Wayne. More than any other character (and certainly more than the Burton/Schumacher iteration), Pennyworth grounded the series and showed that Batman/Wayne was not the most stable hero.
Well at least you mentioned him in Zulu... HE MADE THAT FUCKING MOVIE... One of my favorite movies of all time.
He is so outstanding
"You couldn't win an egg and spoon race Eric."
''Sod off!"
New fan!
Escape to Victory, Austin Powers, Miss Congeniality, any role he does is brilliant
I totally agree with Number 1
How could you leave out such classics as Jaws: The Revenge and The Swarm (lol)
What about Reginald Kinkade/Sherlock Holmes in 'Without a Clue'? Absolutely hilarious, and he plays off so well opposite Ben Kingsley as John Watson.
This film is so underrated, all the performances are great in it and Caine is as usual fantastic
Lieutenant Bromhead ought to be in the top 10. It's just so good.
Not the Muppet Christmas Carol? That should have been top 5 for sure!
Had to be Get Carter......Caine at his very best along with the rest of the cast.A real gritty movie reflecting the
era it was made .
The man who would be king and dirty rotten scoundrels are my favorites.
Love that movie funny. Steve & him to much
All his shows were great. Love that man.
Shock To The System shiukd have at least been in the honorable mention! SO underrated!
An orthodox list for people who haven't seen enough of Caine's films. How can it not include Dr Frank Bryant from Educating Rita?! He's also fantastic as Mortwell in Mona Lisa, Sidney Bruhl in Deathtrap, The Captain in The Last Valley, Tosh Hearne in Too Late the Hero...
Yesssss, Jack Carter no 1, I agree with that. My all time favourite Caine performance. " Do you wanna be dead, Albert?"
My favourite Michael Caine performances are Lawrence Jamieson, Finn Mcmissile and Ebernezer Scrooge from the Muppets
My hero of all time.
What about Educating Rita?
I agree....his best film.
But Pygmalion is like mandatory syllabus - can't be voted for in deliberate, leisurely way.
Nice
Alfred should be in the list at least.
It's not omg what the hell?
Forgot about Nigel Powers.
Austin Powers 3 goldmember.
Why isn't this on the original Watchmojo channel? We Americans love Michael Caine too!
I love Michael Caine true great cockney legends😅
It's hard to eliminate roles that Caine did, because he's ALWAYS good. BTW, he picked that surname because of The Caine Mutiny.
WHERES THE HAND, A CLASSIC HORROR WITH THIS MAN.
just a reminder he voiced Finn McMissile from CARS 2
Where is The Eagle has landed, Escape to Victory, Educating Rita, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Little Voice, and many, many others? Next time do Top 25 Michael Caine Performances.
I'm surprised 'zulu' was only a honourable mention as he was fantastic in his introducing film and I'm also surprised the 'eagle has landed' wasnt even mentioned. Sometimes these seem / are rushed n I cant help think this is one of them
Wow, every movie a classic. I would put Milo Tindle of Sleuth #1, but that's because I am most familiar with that film.
Carter at number 1...well done. Definitely Caine's finest hour.
I was really impressed with his role as Jennings in On Deadly Ground. He played the role of an evil, hostile, cranky prick so well.
Everything he did is number 1. I have more of his movies than any other actor.
I was hoping that Mojo UK would at least get yet another role or movie that Caine stands out in ..Think about America has Hundreds of WW2 Shows and movies All about USA and 20 million bullets fired and not hit the actor .....What about British pride? What about a chance to see How WW2 was won Even before America thought of get in the fight? ......Ladies and Gents I give you the Movie Battle of Britain (1969) Here you have Sir Michael Canine in a role of a real British RAF pilot during the battle ..Not only that But had 2 Advisors One RAF Wing commander Sir Stanford Tuck DSO DFC 2 bars And Luftwaffe Major Gen, Adolfo Galland Knights cross with swords and oak leaves and diamonds These two men fought each other over the sky's of the Channel .. How iconic Is someone that was Knighted Acting as a pilot in a Spitfire while being Advised By Someone How was Knighted that really did fly in the real battle ..How more British can you get without a bowler hat and a cane ? Battle of Britain is a time piece that will never age
Other films have been missed is Bewitched, Little Voice, Miss Congeniality.