Sir Michael Caine
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: Rotherhithe, 14 March 2020
According to reports, The Italian Job star opens his first Indian restaurant, Deya in central London. He has previously owned several restaurants, although he gave them all up claiming that the business was no longer fun. He has employed critically acclaimed chef Sanjay Dwevidi to cook up a storm in his latest eatery.
The Southwark job - 25/09/03
Sir Michael Caine comes back to the borough to unveil his blue plaque, which will be placed at the site of the hospital where he was born...
Caine’s Carter is nastiest ever - 14/07/03
Bermondsey born actor Michael Caine’s role in movie classic Get Carter has earned the title of nastiest screen character of all time.
Movie experts at Total Film magazine who have compiled a countdown of the all-time greatest screen "bastards" chose his character Jack Carter. Caine told the magazine: "We made it very violent for the time because I had this bee in my bonnet that British films treated gangsters as though they were stupid or funny."
Caine one-liner is all-time favourite - 10/03/03
Sir Michael Caine’s famous comment in 60s classic The Italian Job has won a poll of the best one-liners in films voted for by movie fans...
The famous line "you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off" is uttered after Caine’s lackeys destroy an armoured van after using too much explosive. The Italian Job is currently being remade with a US cast, led by Planet of the Apes star Mark Wahlberg. Don’t do it!!
The Critics choice - 14/02/03
Bermondsey born actor Sir Michael Caine has been named actor of the year at the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards for his performance in The Quiet American.
The 69-year-old star of Alfie and Get Carter triumphed over Al Pacino for Insomnia and Jack Nicholson for About Schmidt to win the prize. Sir Michael is also up against Nicholson at the Oscars on March 23.
Michael Caine is tipped for an Oscar - 26/11/02
Veteran British actor Sir Michael Caine is being tipped for an Oscar for his starring role in the controversial film The Quiet American.
The Bermondsey-born actor has won rave reviews for his performance in the second big screen adaptation of the 1955 Graham Greene novel of the same name. Sir Michael has won critical acclaim in the American press.
The New York Post said Caine was "superb" as a cynical English journalist in Saigon who is befriended by a naive US aid worker. The British star has already picked up two Best Supporting Actor gongs. But he reckons he deserves Best Actor for his new movie The Quiet American. And critics in Time magazine and USA Today suggest his nomination is in the bag.
Caine’s cooking- 08/10/02
Wondering which celeb makes the best roast potatoes?
Well it’s Michael Caine, according to director, Michael Winner. He explains, "Michael puts the potatoes in the fat when it’s cold, which is controversial as most people say it should be hot." Courtesy of Heat Magazine
Beer stolen from film set was non-alcoholic - 09/01/02
Beer stolen from a pub being used to film Michael Caine’s new film, Last Orders, turned out to be non-alcoholic.
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In 1955 Michael married the actress Patricia Haines and they had one daughter Dominique (known as Nikki). His very early films between 1956 and 1962, mainly bit-parts, included Sailor Beware!, Hell in Korea, How to Murder a Rich Uncle, A Woman of Mystery and Solo for Sparrow. In 1964 he played the part of Horatio in Hamlet for the BBC, but it was when he appeared as Lieut. Gonville Bromhead in Zulu in the same year that he won the attention of the media.
Michael’s film career really took of when in 1965 he appeared as bespectacled Harry Palmer in the first of a trilogy of Len Deighton spy thrillers, The Ipcress File, the two follow-up films being Funeral in Berlin (1966) and Billion Dollar Brain (1967). However, it was his role as Cockney lothario Alfie Elkins that made him legend, earning both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations in 1967.
From 1969’s The Italian Job onwards through the seventies, Caine found success at every turn, his role as Dr Frank Bryant in Educating Rita in 1983 earned him another Oscar nomination for Best Actor and he also won his first Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical. 1986 saw him take the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters plus further Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Jack The Ripper and Hemmingway. The nineties and on bought older roles but nonetheless earned as much, if not more, in the way of acclaim - Little Voice and The Cider House Rules were among those great parts. Recent films meanwhile have included Batman Begins, Bewitched and The Prestige.
In 1973 Michael who was now single married Shakira, a former Miss Guyana, whohe is still with, they have a daughter Natasha, he has another daughter, Dominique from a previous marriage to Patricia Haines.
Caine has been awarded the British Variety Club Award for Best Film Actor and in 1993 he was given the CBE. He owns his own production company and has written five books including an autobiography in 1992 entitled What’s It All About.
In June 2000 Michael was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. He was delighted with the award and said "It’s the greatest honour I’ve ever had, or am every likely to have, in my life and I am very quietly but so ecstatically happy".
updated January 2007
October 2007