Sir Michael Caine,(born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite); is an English film
actor and author. He has appeared in over one hundred films and is one of
Britain’s most recognizable and respected actors. Caine is well known for such
films as Alfie (1966), The Italian Job (1969), Academy Award winning roles for
best supporting actor in both Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and The Cider
House Rules (1999). More recently Michael Caine has played Alfred , the
butler from Batman Begins (2005), and The Dark Knight (2008). Caine is
one of two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting, either lead
or supporting, in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s…the other actor
being Jack Nicholson. In 2000, Caine was Knighted by Queen Elizabeth ll.  

Michael Caine with Christian Bale, right, in The Dark Knight