Michael Caine

The archive locates one fictional killing precisely. At the end of Get Carter he dispatches Ian Hendry at Blackhall Rocks, on the Durham coast. The British Film Institute follows him into The Prestige as well, where his bright-eyed engineer Cutter is the one explaining the three-act shape of a magic trick to Borden's daughter, and the review takes that for a sign of Christopher Nolan keeping cinema itself in view. The Italian academy entered Michael Caine twice for its foreign actor prize and he took neither; the later of the two is Hannah and Her Sisters. Twenty-seven of his fifty-five titles open their cast with his name, and no director recurs more often than Nolan, five times.