His less fantastic rivals include Le Carre's George Smiley and Harry Palmer as played by Michael Caine.

Other films include The 25th Hour ( 1967 ), with Virna Lisi ; The Magus ( 1968 ), with Michael Caine and Candice Bergen, and based on the novel by John Fowles ; La Bataille de San Sebastian ( Guns for San Sebastian ) with Charles Bronson ; and The Shoes of the Fisherman, where he played a Catholic Archbishop in a Soviet Ukrainian prison who becomes Pope.

Michael Caine played Harry Palmer in the films based on three of the first four of the published novels featuring this character, and also later in two films not based on Len Deighton's novels.

Caine played Nigel Powers in the 2002 parody Austin Powers in Goldmember, and more recently portrayed Alfred Pennyworth, the butler in Christopher Nolan's the Dark Knight trilogy.

After working on The Italian Job with Noël Coward, and a solid role as RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in the all-star cast of Battle of Britain ( both 1969 ), Caine played the lead in Get Carter ( 1971 ), a British gangster film.

In the 2007 remake of Sleuth, Caine took over the role Laurence Olivier played in the 1972 version and Jude Law played Caine's original role.

The British comedy sketch show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, included a series of sketches in which Paul Whitehouse played a character called Michael Paine ; an amalgam of previous Michael Caine impressions, who in a reference to the The Ipcress File wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a trench coat.

In another turn in the " not so nice " category, MacMurray played the cynical, duplicitous Lieutenant Thomas Keefer in 1954's The Caine Mutiny.

* Michael Caine played Captain Nemo in the ABC-TV miniseries 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1997 ).

Caine starred in this adaptation, this time in the role of Wyke, while Jude Law played Tindle as a struggling actor.

In Kung Fu: The Movie, Lee played Chung Wang, the suspected son of Kwai Chang Caine ( David Carradine ).

Another character was the former director general of the BBC, Greg Dyke, portrayed with a Michael Caine-like accent by Phil Cornwell, who had previously played Caine in Stella Street.

He took on another of Caine's earlier roles in the 2007 film Sleuth, adapted by Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter, while Caine played the role originated by Sir Laurence Olivier.

Comedian Steve Martin stars as the serious confidence man performing the Spanish Prisoner con in Mamet's film and, in contrast, also starred in the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as a comically unaccomplished con man who becomes associated with an expert Spanish Prisoner con artist ( played by Michael Caine ).

Actor Ray Lonnen, who played Sandbagger Willie Caine, has indicated in correspondence with fans that there were plans for a follow-up season in which his character, using a wheelchair, had taken over Burnside's role as Director of Special Operations.

For example, Ray Lonnen ( who played Sandbagger One, Willie Caine ) mentioned in an interview that a second series episode was apparently vetoed by censors because it dealt with sensitive information, explaining why Series Two has only six episodes.

Although this phenomenon is not as common today as it was in the 1970s, Canadian films do still sometimes cast famous foreign actors: Michael Caine starred in the 2003 film The Statement, Helena Bonham Carter played the lead role in 1996's Margaret's Museum and Olivia Newton-John has a starring role in the forthcoming Score: A Hockey Musical.

His role played by Phil Cornwell but his accent was a mimic of Michael Caine.

In Kung Fu: The Movie ( 1986 ) Caine ( played by Carradine ) is forced to fight his hitherto unknown son, Chung Wang ( played by Brandon Lee ).

The character Jasper Palmer, played by Michael Caine in the movie Children of Men, drove a vehicle based on a CX Safari.

Doody returned to acting with a small role in the British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine, in which she played herself in an award ceremony scene .< ref >

In the 1964 film Zulu, Bromhead was played by Michael Caine.

Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.

Sir Michael Caine, CBE ( born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite on 14 March 1933 ) is a British actor and author.

Caine believes Enfield offered him, a Cockney, the role of an aristocrat as, being American, he did not have the endemic British class prejudice.

After dozens of minor TV roles, Caine finally entered the public eye as the upper class British Army officer Gonville Bromhead in Zulu.

Caine was called up for national service in the British Army in 1951 when he was aged 18 and was deployed to South Korea to help in the aftermath of the North Korean invasion.

Alfie is a 1966 British film directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Michael Caine.

Bacharach had been contracted to produce " Alfie " for the Michael Caine film of the same name and wanted Dionne Warwick to sing the tune but the British producers wanted a British subject to cut the tune.

The 007 films inspired other spy films like the ' Harry Palmer ' spy mystery trilogy featured a reluctant, bespectacled, unglamorous British secret serviceman ( Michael Caine ) ( from the best-selling novel by Len Deighton ) in The Ipcress File ( 1965 ), Funeral in Berlin ( 1967 ) and Billion Dollar Brain ( 1967 ).

John Mackenzie's spy thriller The Fourth Protocol ( 1987 ), derived from a script by the original novelist Frederick Forsyth, featured Michael Caine as British intelligence agent John Preston and Pierce Brosnan as bad-guy Russian agent Maj. Valeri Petrofsky.

Sessions also starred in Stella Street, a surreal " soap opera " comedy about a fantasy suburban British street inhabited by celebrities like Michael Caine and Al Pacino, which he conceived with fellow impressionist Phil Cornwell, the two of them playing several parts in each episode.

British actors in starring roles in 1960s films included Sir Alec Guinness, Richard Burton, Peter Sellers, Audrey Hepburn, Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews and David Niven.

Lawrence Jamieson ( Michael Caine ) is a cultivated and suave British con artist who operates in the deluxe hotels along the French Riviera with the help of his manservant Arthur ( Ian McDiarmid ) and corrupt local police officer Andre ( Anton Rodgers ).

After Cannon Films entered bankruptcy, Winner confined himself to British productions with the Michael Caine and Roger Moore farce Bullseye!

Upon receiving news of Isandhlwana from the Natal Contingent Ardenoff and that an army of 4000 Zulu Warriors are advancing their way, Lieutenant John Chard ( Stanley Baker ) of the Royal Engineers assumes command of the small British detachment, being senior by virtue of his commission date to Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead ( Michael Caine ), who, as an infantry officer, is rather put out to find himself subordinate to an engineer.

* Bwana Clyde Batty-A British explorer character, who gave Billy Van a chance to use his Micheal Caine impression, who teaches about wild animals on Zany Zoo and His name is a spoof of animal trainer Clyde Beatty.

In the 2011, an Aston Martin DB5 appeared in heavily stylized form as ' Finn McMissile ', a British secret agent voiced by Michael Caine in the 2011 Pixar film Cars 2.

Alfie is a 2004 British / American comedy-drama film based on the 1966 British film of the same name, starring Jude Law as the title character, originally played by Michael Caine.

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times states: " Unlike the 1966 British film on which it is based, with its abrasive star-making turn from Michael Caine, the new ' Alfie ' doesn't chase social significance-it just wants us to have a good time.

It was the first major feature film to portray British troops in action during the Korean War and introduces Michael Caine ( himself a veteran of the Korean War ) in his first credited film role.