Michael Caine

Maurice Joseph Micklewhite broke through in the 1960s wearing thick horn-rimmed glasses and playing Cockneys in Zulu, The Ipcress File, and The Italian Job — a style icon with a laconic drawl. He held that stardom through Get Carter, The Man Who Would Be King, and A Bridge Too Far, then won his first Oscar as Elliot in Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986. A second came thirteen years later for The Cider House Rules, along with four other Best Actor nominations scattered across Alfie, Sleuth, Educating Rita, and The Quiet American. He spent his last two decades steady in Christopher Nolan's stable —…