Michael Caine says he’s “sort of” retired from acting.
In a recent interview with The Telegraph, per The Hollywood Reporter, Caine said he’d reached the point in his career where he was now “sort of” retired from acting. “I am bloody 90 now, and I can’t walk properly and all that,” he said.
Caine continued, “I’ve had the best possible life I could have thought of. The best possible wife, and the best possible family. They may not be a family that other people would say is the best possible family — but the best possible family for me.”
When asked what he wants to be remembered for, Caine answered, “The fact that I remained an actor all my life, and I never went into anything else. I never left, I never wanted to leave.”
The life and career of Michael Caine
Caine’s acting career started in the 1950s, his first role in a film being in 1956’s A Hill in Korea. His notoriety grew in the 1960s by starring in films such as 164’s Zulu, 1965’s The Ipcress File, 1966’s Alfie, and 1969’s The Italian Job.
He continued acting throughout the following decades, appearing in movies such as 197’s Sleuth, 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King, 1980’s Dressed to Kill, 1988’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol, 2006’s Children of Men, Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, among many others. He’s won two Oscars for his performances in 1987’s Hannah and Her Sisters and 2000’s The Cider House Rules, while he was nominated four other times (for Alfie, Sleuth, 1984’s Educating Rita, and 2003’s The Quiet American).
Caine’s latest movie, The Great Escaper, is directed by Oliver Parker and also stars the late Glenda Jackson.
“They gave me a very good walking stick, and I was able to do scenes that needed that,” Caine said of his role in The Great Escaper. “I’d just do them once, and then fall over. But just one take, and that’s it. Forget it.”
