[56], Caine's other successful films (critically or financially) were the 1980 Golden Globe-nominated slasher film Dressed to Kill, the 1981 war film Escape to Victory featuring Sylvester Stallone and footballers from the 1960s and 1970s, including Pel and Bobby Moore, the 1982 film Deathtrap, and the Academy Award-nominated Mona Lisa (1986). [138] In 2017, Caine was the recipient of the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. For more than forty years, Caine's mother, Ellen Maria Burchell, paid periodic visits to a "cousin" in a mental hospital. Why Michael Keaton Is Back As Batman - msn.com [66], The 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 Caine's character Harry Palmer from The Ipcress File wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a trench coat. Caine also starred multiple comedies during this time, including playing Austin's father in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002). At the drop of a hat he'll trot one out. His performance in Educating Rita in 1983 earned him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Best Batman actors ranked, from Robert Pattinson to Michael Keaton Other parts included three roles in Dixon of Dock Green in 1957, 1958 and 1959, prisoner-of-war series Escape (1957), and the crime/thriller drama Mister Charlesworth (1958). In 1987, Caine narrated Hero, the official film of the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He's just on the money. He previously associated with the Superman universe in 1994 on the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman first-season episode "Vatman," in which he played Dr. Fabian Leek, a cloning expert who creates a Superman clone that belonged to corporate mogul Lex Luthor (John Shea). In the 2000s, Caine appeared in the comedy Miss Congeniality (2000) as the refined pageant coach opposite Sandra Bullock as the undercover FBI agent. Lewis Wilson was the first to don the. In 1974, Caine appeared in The Black Windmill, co-starring Donald Pleasence. [93], Some time after his mother died, Caine and his younger brother, Stanley, learned they had an elder half-brother named David. Something went wrong. But the actor is arguably best known as Batman. In 1952, Caine was called up to do his national service. After the return of the cast to England and the completion of the film, Levine released him from the contract, telling him, "I know you're not, but you gotta face the fact that you look like a queer on screen."