Sir Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine

  • Profession: Actor
  • Place/Date of Birth: Rotherhithe, 14 March 2020

Director Fred Schepisi said, "They stole the beer, and boy were they disappointed because it was non-alcoholic. I have this image of them drinking more and more and getting bloated, but not getting drunk." The movie also stars Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay and Helen Mirren. Based on the book by Graham Swift the film is about a group who go to Margate to scatter their friend’s ashes at sea. Michael plays a Bermondsey butcher. Last Orders is released on Friday.

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Biography

Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite on 14th March 1933 in Bermondsey, London to humble beginnings - his father was a fish-porter at Billingsgate and his mother was a charwoman. He spent many years as a struggling small-part actor in a variety of media and along the way ditched his surname in tribute to his favourite movie, The Caine Mutiny (1954).

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

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