222 thoughts on “Michael Caine Movies”

1. Recognize the name M. Emmett Walsh, a character actor who Roger Ebert called one of his favorite actors. I did a study on the upper portion of I think the 2005 Oracle of Bacon list and M. there connected with more people on the list than anybody. So I wondered how many Oscar winners. Emmett is currently #115 and he has appeared with 55 Oscar winners.

   A Time to Kill (1996) – Kevin Spacey, Chris Cooper, Octavia Spencer, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock
   Airport ’77 (1977) – George Kennedy, Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, James Stewart, Olivia De Havilland
   Albino Alligator (1996) – Faye Dunaway
   Back Roads (1981) – Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field
   Blood Simple (1984) – Frances McDormand
   Brubaker (1980) – Morgan Freeman
   Chattahoochee (1989) – Francers McDormand
   Clean and Sober (1988) – Morgan Freeman
   Dead Badge (1999) – Olympia Dukakis
   Equinox (1992) – Marisa Tomei
   Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) – Kim Hunter
   Harry and the Hendersons (1987) – Don Ameche
   Kid Blue (1973) – Ben Johnson
   Little Big Man (1970) – Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam
   Man in the Chair (2007) – Christopher Plummer
   Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman
   My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) – Julia Roberts
   Narrow Margin (1990) – Gene Hackman
   Racing Stripes (2005) – Dustin Hoffman, Whoopi Goldberg
   Raise the Titanic (1980) – Jason Robards, Alec Guinness
   Raising Arizona (1987) – Nicolas Cage, Frances McDormand
   Reds (1981) – Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Maureen Stapleton
   Romeo + Juliet (1996) – Leonardo Dicaprio
   Scandalous (1984) – John Gielgud
   Serpico (1973) – Al Pacino, F. Murray Abraham
   Silkwood (1983) – Meryl Streep, Cher
   Slap Shot (1977) – Paul Newman
   Snow Dogs (2002) – Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn
   Stiletto (1969) – Olympia Dukakis
   Straight Time (1978) – Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates
   The Best of Times (1986) – Robin Williams
   The Iron Giant (1999) – Cloris Leachman
   The Mighty Quinn (1989) – Denzel Washington
   The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) – Geraldine Page
   The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) – Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, F. Murray Abraham
   They Might Be Giants (1971) – George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, F. Murray Abraham
   Twilight (1998) – Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Paul Newman
   What’s Up, Doc? (1972) – Barbra Streisand
   Wild Wild West (1999) – Kevin Kline
   Wildcats (1986) – Goldie Hawn

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2. Did not know where to place this guy but since he’s an Oscar winner and worked with Mr. Caine I put it here. I looked up Jim Broadbent and he has worked with 38 Oscar winners.

   Around the World in 80 Days (2004) – Kathy Bates
   Art School Confidential (2006) – Anjelica Huston
   Brazil (1985) – Robert De Niro
   Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) – Colin Firth, Renee Zellweger
   Bright Young Things (2003) – John Mills
   Bullets Over Broadway (1994) – Dianne Wiest
   Cloud Atlas (2012) – Susan Sarandon, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry
   Eddie the Eagle (2016) – Christopher Walken
   Gangs of New York (2002) – Leonardo Dicaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis
   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2 (2011) – Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith
   Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009) – Maggie Smith
   Hot Fuzz (2007) – Cate Blanchett
   Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) – Cate Blanchett
   Inkheart (2008) – Helen Mirren, Jennifer Connelly
   Iris (2001) – Judy Dench, Kate Winslet
   Little Voice (1998) – Michael Caine
   Moulin Rouge! (2001) – Nicole Kidman
   Nicholas Nickelby (2002) – Christopher Plummer, Anne Hathaway
   Paddington (2015) – Nicole Kidman
   Princess Caraboo (1994) – Kevin Kline
   Richard III (1995) – Maggie Smith
   Robots (2005) – Robin Williams, Halle Berry, Dianne Wiest
   Rough Magic (1995) – Russell Crowe
   Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997) – Vanessa Redgrave
   Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) – Gene Hackman
   The Avengers (1998) – Sean Connery, Ralph Fiennes
   The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) – Tilda Swinton
   The Crying Game (1992) – Forest Whitaker
   The Dogs of War (1980) – Christopher Walken
   The Good Father (1985) – Anthony Hopkins
   The Iron Lady (2011) – Meryl Streep
   The Legend of Tarzan (2016) – Christoph Waltz
   The Passage (1979) – Anthony Quinn, Patricia Neal
   The Secret Agent (1996) – Christian Bale, Robin Williams
   Time Bandits (1981) – Sean Connery
   Vanity Fair (2004) – Reese Witherspoon
   When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007) – Colin Firth

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   1. Jim Broadbent is one of the best supporting actors out there. I get a kick out of seeing him in movies that I had seen before…but did not notice him before….Time Bandits, Brazil, The Crying Game. It was the double whammy of Moulin Rouge and Topsy Turvy that finally got me to notice him. 38 is pretty impressive. It seems like he is slowing down somewhat…about 5 years ago…it seemed like he was in almost every movie made. Thanks for the list….I finally got around to doing this for Bruce Willis….he is at 25…and I did not include all of the Player cameos. That list can be found on my Willis page.

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3. Movies that Michael Caine starred in with other Oscar winners.

   Alan Arkin in Going In Style….film is completed
   Christian Bale’s butler in the Batman movies
   Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality
   Richard Burton in Zulu…..Burton was the narrator
   Nicolas Cage’s dad in The Weather Man
   Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King/Bridge Too Far
   Olivia de Havilland in The Swarm
   Leonardo DiCaprio’s step dad in Inception
   Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions/Eagle Has Landed.
   10. Jose Ferrer in The Swarm
   Sally Field in Beyond the Posideon Adventure and Surrender
   Colin Firth in The Kingsman
   Henry Fonda in The Swarm
   Jane Fonda in Hurry Sundown, Youth & California Suite
   Morgan Freeman in 6 and soon to be 7 movies
   John Gielgud in The Whistle Blower
   Gene Hackman in A Bridge Too Far
   Rex Harrison in Ashanti
   Anne Hathaway’s dad in Interstellar
   20. William Holden in Ashanti
   Diane Keaton in Harry and Walter Go To New York
   Nicole Kidman’s dad in Bewitched
   Ben Kingsley in Without A Clue
   Glenda Jackson in The Romantic Englishman
   Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
   Shirley MacLaine in Gambit, Woman Times Seven
   Karl Malden in Billion Dollar Brain
   Walter Matthau in California Suite
   Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar
   30. John Mills in The Wrong Box
   Helen Mirren in Last Orders
   Julianne Moore in Children of Men
   Jack Nicholson in Blood and Wine
   Laurence Olivier in many movies..but especially Sleuth
   Christopher Plummer in The Man Who Would Be King/Battle of Britian
   Sidney Poitier in The Wilby Conspiracy
   Anthony Quinn in The Magus & The Destructors
   Cliff Robertson in Too Late The Hero
   Geoffrey Rush in Quills
   40. Maggie Smith’s husband in California Suite
   Tilda Swinton in The Statement
   Elizabeth Taylor in X,Y and Zee
   Charlize Theron in Cider House Rules
   Peter Ustinov in Ashanti
   Christopher Walken in Around The Bend
   Dianne Wiest in Hannah and Her Sisters
   Kate Winslet in Quills
   48. Shelley Winters in Alfie

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   1. If you include the cameos by G. Paltrow and Kevin Spacey in Austin Powers:Goldmember…..then Caine is up to 50.

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      1. Anthony Hopkins and Maximilian Schell are also in A Bridge Too Far
         Karl Malden and Shirley Jones are also in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
         James Coburn is also in California Suite
         Vanessa Redgrave also voices in Cars 2
         Paul Scofield is in Carve Her Name with Pride
         Marcia Gay Harden and Maggie Smith are in Curtain Call
         Charles Coburn and Wendy Hiller are in How to Murder a Rich Uncle
         Faye Dunaway and George Kennedy are also in Hurry Sundown
         Ellen Burstyn is also in Interstellar
         Louise Fletcher is in On Deadly Ground
         Martin Landau is in Shiner
         Martin Balsam is in Silver Bears
         Ben Kingsley is in Stoneheasrt Asylum
         Anthony Quinn is in the Marseille Contract
         Ben Johnson, Lee Grant and Patty Duke are also in the Swarm
         Henry Fonda is also in Too Late the Hero
         Alan Arkin is also in Woman Times Seven
         Rachel Weisz is also in Youth

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         1. Hey Dan….thanks for the additional names….I did not even look at his parts that were one or two day movies for him…..so I missed Schofiled, Coburn and Hiller…..then I was a snob….and only looked at the ones that got released in theaters in the USA….so I did not include Harden and Landau. I had Malden and Arkin just in different movies…..so the rest of the ones you mentioned gets his total up to 65…..70 if we add all of them. That might be hard to beat….but then again I thought the same thing with Marvin. Thanks for taking the time to come up with this list.

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   2. That’s massive I don’t think anyone will come close.

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      1. I agree.

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         1. How about this immortal Arthur Tovey character. I count 94 Oscar winners he appeared in pictures with. His career includes 1932’s The Mummy with Boris Karloff and 1996’s The Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy.

            A Place in the Sun (1951) – Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor
            Adam’s Rib (1949) – Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
            Affair with a Stranger (1953) – Jane Darwell
            Angel on My Shoulder (1946) – Anne Baxter, Paul Muni
            Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) – Shirley Maclaine, John Gielgud, David Niven , John Mills, Frank Sinatra, Charles Coburn, Ronald Colman, Victor McLaglen
            Autumn Leaves (1956) – Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson
            Band of Angels (1957) – Sidney Poitier, Clark Gable
            Black Widow (1954) – Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin
            Blackboard Jungle (1955) – Sidney Poitier
            Bye Bye Birdie (1963) – Maureen Stapleton
            Cimarron (1960) – Anne Baxter
            Cry Terror (1958) – Rod Steiger
            Days of Wine and Roses (1962) – Jack Lemmon
            Dead Ringer (1964) – Bette Davis, Karl Malden
            Dear Brigitte (1965) – James Stewart
            Enter Laughing (1967) – Shelley Winters, Jose Ferrer
            Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) – Kim Hunter
            Funny Girl (1968) – Barbra Streisand
            Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) – Charles Coburn
            Glory (1956) – Walter Brennan
            Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955) – Jennifer Jones
            Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) – Burt Lancaster
            Herbie Rides Again (1974) – Helen Hayes
            Homecoming (1948) – Clark Gable, Anne Baxter
            Hoodlum Empire (1952) – Claire Trevor
            Hunt the Man Down (1950) – Gig Young
            Johnny Got His Gun (1971) – Jason Robards
            Meteor (1979) – Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden
            Midnight Lace (1960) – Rex Harrison
            Miracle in the Rain (1956) – Jane Wyman
            Moon Pilot (1962) – Edmond O’Brien, Sally Field
            Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) – James Stewart
            My Fair Lady (1964) – Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn
            My Foolish Heart (1949) – Susan Hayward
            New York, New York (1977) – Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli
            Night and Day (1946) – Jane Wyman, Dorothy Malone
            North by Northwest (1959) – Eva Marie Saint, Martin Landau
            Not as a Stranger (1955) – Lee Marvin, Broderick Crawford, Frank Sinatra, Olivia De Havilland
            Not With My Wife, You Don’t (1966) – George C. Scott
            Oh, God! (1977) – George Burns
            Payment on Demand (1951) – Bette Davis
            Pete’s Dragon (1977) – Shelley Winters, Red Buttons
            Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) – Karl Malden
            Rally, Round the Flag Boys! (1958) – Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward
            Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) – Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby
            Shampoo (1975) – Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn
            Sister Kenny (1946) – Dean Jagger
            Some Like it Hot (1959) – Jack Lemmon
            Something to Live For (1952) – Ray Milland, Joan Fontaine, Teresa Wright
            South Sea Woman (1953) – Burt Lancaster
            Sweet Smell of Success (1957) – Burt Lancaster
            Synanon (1965) – Edmond O’Brien
            Tender is the Night (1962) – Jason Robards, Jennifer Jones, Joan Fontaine, Paul Lukas
            Tension at Table Rock (1956) – Dorothy Malone
            The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) – Gloria Grahame
            The Best Man (1964) – Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda
            The Best Things in Life are Free (1956) – Ernest Borgnine
            The Chapman Report (1962) – Cloris Leachman, Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda
            The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) – James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones
            The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) – Ginger Rogers
            The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) – George Kennedy, Martin Balsam
            The Harder They Fall (1956) – Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger
            The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) – Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, George C. Scott
            The Love God? (1969) – Edmond O’Brien
            The Man from Colorado (1948) – William Holden
            The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – Frank Sinatra
            The Notorious Landlady (1962) – Jack Lemmon
            The Out of Towners (1970) – Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis
            The Paradine Case (1947) – Gregory Peck, Charles Coburn, Charles Laughton, Ethel Barrymore
            The Prize (1963) – Paul Newman
            The Raid (1954) – Lee Marvin, Anne Bancroft, Van Heflin
            The Robe (1953) – Dean Jagger
            The Sting (1973) – Paul Newman
            The Story on Page One (1959) – Hugh Griffith, Gig Young
            The Young Philadelphians (1959) – Paul Newman
            Three Came Home (1950) – Claudette Colbert
            To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) – Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall
            Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) – Jason Robards, Martin Balsam
            Tough Guys (1986) – Burt Lancaster
            Trouble Along the Way (1953) – John Wayne, Charles Coburn, Donna Reed
            Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) – Martin Balsam
            Who’s That Girl (1987) – John Mills
            Willard (1971) – Ernest Borgnine
            Woman’s World (1954) – Van Heflin
            Young and Willing (1943) –William Holden, Susan Hayward

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            1. Hey Dan…thanks for this impressive list. I give him credit for the 94….very impressive…..but….I like the tally from stars….or at least supporting characters…versus somebody that has to be searched for to find him in the movie. So in my mind we have two leaders…..Arthur and Sir Michael… pretty sure the Bacon lists have identified Arthur as the king of the extras…..not thinking anybody else will touch his total….thanks for sharing.

4. Hey Lyle good to hear from another Caine fan. I am right there with in your comments as that is how I feel too. One of his worst ranked movies is Surrender with Sally Field (which has the wrong co-star in the table)…. I saw that one in theaters and liked it….though it appears not many others did….but Caine was fun to watch. Thanks for sharing all of your favorite Caine movies.

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5. Hello Bruce. I’ve always been a fan of Michael Caine ever since I saw “The Ipcress File” (1965). I loved “Alfie” (1966), “The Italian Job” (1969), “Too Late the Hero” (1970), “The Last Valley” (1971) ( I think Caine gave one of his best dramatic performances in The Last Valley), “Kidnapped” (1971), “X, Y and Zee” (1972), “Sleuth” (1972), “The Romantic Englishwoman” (1975), “The Man Who Would Be King” (1975) and many others. I went to see almost all of his films of the 1980’s on the big screen and though Caine himself commented that he made a lot of crap, I enjoyed all of them just because Michael Caine was in them. I think that Michael Caine is a naturally funny actor and does well in comedy as well as dramatic roles. I like Michael Caine.

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