British film actor Michael Caine quits acting – shares announcement on Radio 4’s
British film actor Michael Caine quits acting – shares announcement on Radio 4’s
British cinema veteran Michael Caine has officially retired from acting, and the recently released feature “The Great Escaper” is his final project.
Caine had time and again expressed his desire to quit acting due to his old age.
The the 90 year old actor went on to add that he will keep saying he is going to retire.
In “The Great Escaper”, the legendary actor featured alongside another British icon Glenda Jackson, who completed the film months before her death in June.
Based on a true story, the movie featured Caine as Bernard Jordan, the 89-year-old British World War II Royal Navy veteran who in June 2014 “broke out” of his nursing home to attend the 70th anniversary D-Day commemorations in France.
As per Caine he wanted to bow out on a high note.
The only parts he is liable to get now are 90-year-old men. Or maybe 85. They’re not going to be the lead. You don’t have leading men at 90, you’re going to have young handsome boys and girls. So he thought, as well he might as well leave with all this.
Caine, whose career spanned seven decades, is one of the tallest actors of British cinema. He has won two Oscars for his performances in “Hannah and Her Sisters” and “The Cider House Rules”.
The actor has starred in several critically-lauded as well as commercially successful films such as “The Italian Job”, “Battle of Britain”, “Get Carter”, “The Last Valley”, “The Man Who Would Be King”, “The Eagle Has Landed”, “A Bridge Too Far”, “Alfie”, “Children of Men”, “The Prestige” and “The Dark Knight” trilogy.
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