The legendary British actor turns 90 today. Here, we track his fascinating journey to this point
in 1987 was rubbish, but at least he got a decent gag out of it. His true nadir was in 1994, opposite Steven Seagal inplaying a very cockney Texan oil billionaire while wearing a wig that makes him look like Action Man.in 1992. Without his restraint and sincerity, you don't have the best Christmas film of them all.
Caine played Bruce Wayne’s quasi-dad-slash-butler-slash-consigliere with a light touch and dry wit, a mixture of his cuddlycharacter Wilbur Larch and an SAS veteran who could still do you in. He became the emotional heart of the Dark Knight trilogy, and often the only thing that kept it from collapsing under its own self-seriousness.
Finally: Caine, walking with a stick. It was the strangest experience. Meeting famous people is always slightly surreal, but watching Sir Michael Caine head down a fairly plush hotel corridor to do dozens of seven-minute interviews was properly mind-bending. He just pottered past with his comfy shoes on, chatting to someone about the traffic on the way in.
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