Michael Caine
For some it is Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File, for others Charlie Croker in The Italian Job. Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in Zulu is a contender, as is Alfie Elkins in Alfie — and even Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol.
But whatever you consider the definitive Michael Caine role to be, one thing is now for certain: there won’t be any more to choose from.
After a movie career spanning 73 years, the venerable British movie star has finally called it a wrap, telling Today on BBC Radio 4 that at his great age he won’t get any parts better than the one for which, aged 90, he is currently receiving rhapsodic reviews.
I don’t remember when it was that I realized that the actor playing so many roles that I loved was the same man.
Wm. Shakespeare — ‘He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.’
On the North River 
A helluva an actor and a helluva a man. And by all accounts about as polite and civilized as can be.
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