There was a time when Michael Caine was really hot in Hollywood. It was 1986 and he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters." Over the next two years, you couldn't go to a movie theatre without seeing his name on one of the multiplex movie posters. And he didn't care what kind of movie he was in...it was his time:

1986 - Hannah and Her Sisters
1986 - Sweet Liberty
1986 - Mona Lisa
1986 - Half Moon Street
1986 - The Whistle Blower
1987 - The Fourth Protocol
1987 - Jaws: The Revenge
1987 - Surrender
1988 - Without a Clue
1988 - Jack the Ripper
1988 - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

In 1993, another suave and sophisticated Brit was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category and like Caine before him, Jude Law is everywhere:

2003 - Cold Mountain
2004 - I Heart Huckabees
2004 - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2004 - Alfie
2004 - Closer
2004 - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004 - The Aviator

And the clincher is that they both played the role of Alfie, Caine in 1966, Law in 2004. Of course they did.

There's nothing more I really want to say about this. Except thanks to IMDB.com for the details.

Thanks and good luck.