The 91-year-old British star of films including Alfie, The Italian Job and Get Carter first met Cruise in 1983, and recently celebrated his 90th birthday with the Mission: Impossible actor – at an event that left Cruise in stitches over a “dirty” joke told by Loose Women star Denise Welch.

Brenton's work has previously appeared in Billboard, Pigeons & Planes and Complex. Getty(2) Michael Caine is looking back on his earliest encounter with Tom Cruise — when the latter was just a "very polite" young actor. In an except from his new book ...

Michael Caine, the beloved British and now-retired actor, recently reminisced about a memorable encounter with a young Tom Cruise nearly four decades ago. The moment occurred at a film event for the classic ‘80s movie and British comedy-drama Educating Rita,