From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also for the show at KCRW.com.

Since Michael Kane spoke the words, anybody getting started now has a much

easier time than I did 35 years ago in the book Michael Kane on acting. That was 18 years ago.

Since then, he's got even easier.

Well, since then, he's played Austin Powers father. And of course, Austin Powers was inspired

by the glasses he wore in the Harry Palmer Pictures.

He also played Alfred and two Batman films and did an interesting term, Miss Congeniality.

His newest film was Harry Brown.

First of all, thanks much for being here, Michael.

Thanks for asking me.

And there seem to be two guys in the movies you do, heist films and or films in which you carry a gun.

Well, I come from a well-known gangster area in England,

and some of my family were gangsters.

Not me.

I'm a gentlest soul you've ever come across.

I'm not the least bit gangster-like.

But I do know how to play them, and I do know their values,

and I can look like a gangster quite easily.

And you started some of the greatest British crime films of all the time, including the Italian job, and Get Carter, a movie that people still talk about almost 40 years later.

That was based on a guy, a real guy that I knew, who was obviously a gangster.

And he eventually saw the film gangster and he said he said I saw the film and he said I saw that film get Carter he didn't know it was based on him me you know he didn't know anything

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