“The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.”

English retired actor

Sir Michael Caine is an English retired actor, known for his distinctive Cockney accent and a screen career that spanned eight decades. He has appeared in more than 130 films and is regarded as a British cultural icon. His work brought him two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2000, he received a BAFTA Fellowship and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. By 2017, the films he had appeared in had grossed more than $7.8 billion worldwide.