Michael Caine
CBE | |
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Born | Maurice Joseph Micklewhite 14 March 1933 Rotherhithe, London, England |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1950–2023 |
Works | Filmography |
Spouses |
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Children | 2 |
Relatives | Stanley Caine (brother) |
Awards | Full list |
Military Service | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1952–1954 |
Rank | Private |
Unit | C Company, 1st Royal Fusiliers |
Battles/wars | Korean War |
Website | michaelcaine |
Sir Michael Caine
Often playing a Cockney, Caine made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in British films such as Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), The Italian Job (1969), and Battle of Britain (1969). During this time he established a distinctive visual style wearing thick horn-rimmed glasses combined with sharp suits and a laconic vocal delivery; he was recognised as a style icon of the 1960s.[7][8][9] He solidified his stardom with roles in Get Carter (1971), The Last Valley (1971), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and A Bridge Too Far (1977).
Caine received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his roles as Elliot in Woody Allen's comedy Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and as Dr. Wilbur Larch in Lasse Hallström's drama The Cider House Rules (1999). His other Oscar-nominated films include Alfie (1966), Sleuth (1972), Educating Rita (1983), and The Quiet American (2002). Other notable performances include in the films California Suite (1978), Dressed to Kill (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Little Voice (1998), Quills (2000), Children of Men (2006), Harry Brown (2009), and Youth (2015).
Caine is also known for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), and for his comedic roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Miss Congeniality (2000), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and Secondhand Lions (2003). Caine portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy (2005–2012). He has also had roles in five other Nolan films: The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). He announced his retirement from acting in October 2023, with his final film being The Great Escaper, which came out in the same month.
Early life
Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite at St Olave's Hospital in the Rotherhithe district of London on 14 March 1933,[10][11][12][13] the son of cook and charwoman Ellen Frances Marie (née Burchell; 1901–1989)[14][15] and fish market porter also called Maurice Joseph Micklewhite (1899–1957). His father was Catholic of Irish and Romani
descent.
After the war, Caine's father was
At the age of 10, Caine acted in a school play as the father of the ugly sisters in
Army service
In 1952, Caine was called up to do his national service. Between 1952 and 1954 he served in the British Army's Royal Fusiliers, first at the British Army of the Rhine Headquarters in Iserlohn, West Germany, and then on active service in the Korean War.
Caine, seeing first-hand how the Chinese used
Caine has said that he would like to see the return of national service in Britain, to help combat youth violence, stating: "I'm just saying, put them in the Army for six months. You're there to learn how to defend your country. You belong to the country. Then, when you come out, you have a sense of belonging, rather than a sense of violence."[30]
Acting career
1950–1963: Acting debut and early roles
Caine's uncredited film debut was a walk-on role in Morning Departure (1950). A few years later in Horsham, Sussex, he responded to an advertisement in The Stage for an assistant stage manager who would also perform bit parts for the Horsham-based Westminster Repertory Company who were performing at the Carfax Electric Theatre.[31] Adopting the stage name "Michael White", in July 1953 he was cast as the drunkard Hindley in the company's production of Wuthering Heights.[32][33] [clarification needed] He moved to the Lowestoft Repertory Company in Suffolk for a year when he was 21. It was here that he met his first wife, Patricia Haines.[34] He has described the first nine years of his career as "really, really brutal"[35] as well as "more like purgatory than paradise".[18] He appeared in nine plays during his time at the Lowestoft Rep at the Arcadia Theatre with Jackson Stanley's Standard Players.
When his career took him to London in 1954 after his provincial apprenticeship, his agent informed him that there was already a Michael White performing as an actor in London and that he had to come up with a new name immediately.
Caine moved in with another rising cockney actor,
Caine continued to appear on television, in serials The Golden Girl and No Wreath for the General, but was then cast in the play
1964–1975: Stardom and acclaim
When this play moved to the
Location shooting for Zulu took place in
Caine's roles as effete-seeming aristocrats were to contrast with his next projects, in which he was to become notable for using a
Caine starred in the 1969 comedy
After working on The Italian Job with
1976–1997: Established star
In 1976, Caine appeared in
In the early 1980s Caine appeared in
Caine's other successful films (critically or financially) were the 1980 Golden Globe-nominated
"It was absolutely perfect at that time for what I wanted. I could make it, and my daughter could see it. That's why I did it. And it was lovely."
―Caine on playing Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol.[62]
In the 1990s, Caine found good parts harder to come by. He played the mysterious bartender Mike in
1998–2014: Career resurgence
His performance in
Several of Caine's classic films have been remade, including The Italian Job, Get Carter, Alfie and Sleuth. In the 2007 remake of Sleuth, Caine took over the role Laurence Olivier played in the 1972 version and Jude Law played Caine's original role. Caine is one of the few actors to have played a starring role in two versions of the same film. In an interview with CNN, Law spoke of his admiration for Caine: "I learned so much just from watching how he monitored his performance, and also how little he has to do. He's a master technician and sometimes he was doing stuff I didn't see, I couldn't register. I'd go back and watch it on the monitor, it was like 'Oh my God, the amount of variety he's put in there is breathtaking".[68]
Caine also starred multiple comedies during this time, including playing Austin's father in
Caine appeared in
2015–2023: Final roles and retirement
In May 2015, Caine starred in
In 2017, Caine was cast in a spoken
In May 2019, Caine was cast as Sir Michael Crosby, a British Intelligence officer, in
Caine officially confirmed his retirement from acting on 13 October 2023, mainly because of the decreasing likelihood of him getting any more leading roles.[90] Caine announced his retirement from acting in a BBC Today radio programme interview with Martha Kearney. Referring to The Great Escaper he said, "I keep saying I'm going to retire, well I am now, because I figured, I've had a picture which is — I played the lead and it's got incredible reviews. The only parts I'm liable to get now are old men, 90-year-old men, and I thought well I might as well leave with all this. I've got wonderful reviews. What am I going to do to beat this?"[91]
In popular culture
"I kept my cockney accent in order to let other working class boys know that if I made it, they could do it too."
—Caine speaking to CNN's The Screening Room in 2007 on retaining his accent.[68]
Caine is regarded as a British cultural icon, with Mairi Mackay of CNN stating: "Michael Caine has been personifying British cool since the
With his distinctive voice and manner of speaking, Caine is a popular subject for impersonators and mimics. show on 28 October 1972 and said:
Not many people know that. This is my Michael Caine impression. You see, Mike's always quoting from the Guinness Book of Records. At the drop of a hat he'll trot one out. 'Did you know that it takes a man in a tweed suit five-and-a-half seconds to fall from the top of Big Ben to the ground?' Now there's not many people who know that![95]
Caine later spoke of how Sellers used his impression of him as his answering machine message in the 1970s: "I called Peter one day, he wasn't in. And there was me saying, 'My name is Michael Caine. I just want you to know that Peter Sellers is not in. Not many people know that.' He invented that 'not many people know that.' And then everybody who rang him, they got me saying, 'Not many people know that.'"[96] Over the years Caine himself had parodied his catchphrase and his "interesting facts", and has imitated others' impressions of him.[97] In an interview with Michael Parkinson in 2007, Caine commented on the impersonations of his voice, "I can do it. 'Hello. My name is Michael Caine. Not many people know that.' I sound like a bloody moron. You know where they've got me now? On birthday cards. 'It's your birthday today. Not many people know that'. Now they've got me on Satellite navigation. It's me going, 'take the second turn on the right, and you'll wind up right in the shit.'"[97] In 1983, Caine used his "not a lot of people know that" phrase as a joke in the film Educating Rita.[68]
The comedy sketch show
A parody of Caine appears in the animated series Ugly Americans, in the episode "The Dork Knight", which also parodies the film The Dark Knight. In the episode, Caine appears as himself, portrayed in the light of his Alfred Pennyworth interpretation, and constantly annoys the protagonists with endless anecdotes of his career.
The 2010 television series The Trip, starring Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, featured improvised scenes in which the two leads argue over who can do the better Michael Caine impression.[100] Among the lines they repeat in their attempts to outdo each other are, "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" and, "She was only sixteen years old"—from The Italian Job and Get Carter, respectively.[100] Coogan and Brydon later did their impressions from a balcony at the Royal Albert Hall during a celebration of Caine's work, only to be interrupted by the real Caine informing them that they were out of shape: "For me, it's a full-time job."[101]
Craig Ferguson ran segments on his show where he parodied Caine, usually while wearing a space suit.[102] In a 2010 interview with The Telegraph, Caine spoke of the impersonations and how everyone he meets quotes lines at him, to the point he quotes them quoting him.[98] When asked whether he is ever tired of telling his anecdotes, Caine stated: "I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them against yourself. If you praise yourself your stories aren't funny."[98]
In 2018, Caine starred in a British Airways pre-flight safety video, appearing with six other British celebrities, including actresses Olivia Colman and Naomie Harris. Promoting the Flying Start children's charity partnership between BA and Comic Relief, they are featured 'auditioning' in humorous sketches while also highlighting important safety messages.[103]
Personal life
As of 2023[update], Caine divides his time between residences in Chelsea Harbour and Wimbledon, London.[104] He previously lived in Leatherhead, Surrey, in a house with a theatre which cost him £100,000 to build.[104][105] He was patron to the Leatherhead Drama Festival.[106] He has also lived in North Stoke, Oxfordshire; Clewer, Berkshire and Lowestoft, Suffolk. Caine owns an apartment at the Apogee in Miami Beach, Florida. He still keeps a small flat near where he grew up in London. Caine has published three volumes of memoirs, What's It All About? in 1992, The Elephant to Hollywood in 2010 and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life in 2018.[107][108]
Caine was married to actress
Proud of his working class roots, Caine has discussed the opportunities his film career gave him: "I got to play football with Pelé, for God's sake. And I danced with Bob Fosse."[98] He also became close friends with John Lennon, stating: "With John and I it was a case of bonding because we were both working class and we shared a sense of humour. We were pretending we weren't who people thought we were."[98] His closest friends included two James Bond actors, Sean Connery and Roger Moore.[98]
Some time after his mother died, Caine and his younger brother, Stanley, learned they had an elder half-brother named David. He suffered from severe epilepsy and had been kept in Cane Hill Mental Hospital his entire life. Although their mother regularly visited her first son in the hospital, even her husband did not know the child existed. David died in 1992.[118]
In July 2016, Caine changed his name by deed poll to his long-time stage name to simplify security checks at airports. Caine stated that because the security guard often recognised him but was unaware of his real name, it would waste a considerable amount of his time as he tried to prove that he and "Maurice Joseph Micklewhite" were the same person:
"[A security guard] would say, 'Hi Michael Caine,' and suddenly I'd be giving him a passport with a different name on it. I could stand there for an hour. So I changed my name."[119]
Music and other interests
Caine is a fan of
Caine quit his 80-a-day smoking habit in the early 1970s after a lecture from Tony Curtis.[125] He is a fan of cricket. This was alluded to by Gary Oldman, who acted with Caine in The Dark Knight Rises, when he talked about Caine's acting methods: "It's, 'Take one'. He got it. 'Take two', got it. 'Take three', got it. He's just on the money. ... He doesn't fuck around because he wants to get back to cricket."[126]
Trivia books written by Caine include Not Many People Know That!, And Not Many People Know This Either!, Michael Caine's Moving Picture Show, and Not a Lot of People Know This Is 1988. Proceeds from the books went to the
Political views
Caine has often been outspoken about his political views, referring to himself as a "left-wing Tory" influenced by both his
I realised that's not a
communist country without a dictator, so I left and I was never going to come back. Maggie Thatcher came in and put the taxes back down and in the end, you know, you don't mind paying tax. What am I going to do? Not pay tax and drive around in a Rolls-Royce, with cripples begging on the street like you see in some countries?[132]
Following the launch of his film Harry Brown in 2009, Caine called for the reintroduction of national service in the UK to give young people "a sense of belonging, rather than a sense of violence".[133]
In 2009, Caine publicly criticised the Labour government of Gordon Brown for its new 50% income tax rate on top earners and threatened to return to the United States if his taxes were increased further.[130] During the run up to the 2010 general election, Caine publicly endorsed the Conservative Party and appeared with then-party leader David Cameron for the launch of a civilian non-compulsory "National Service" for sixteen-year-olds, although Caine stated he had previously supported New Labour under the leadership of Tony Blair in 1997.[134] In July 2014, Caine was reported to have been a celebrity investor in a tax avoidance scheme called Liberty.[135] In November 2014, Caine described the proposed mansion tax by then Labour leader Ed Miliband as "preposterous and silly".[136]
Caine voted in favour of Brexit in the 2016 European Referendum, stating he would rather be a "poor master than a rich servant".[137] He said he was a reluctant Leaver; "I don't know what to vote for. Both are scary. To me, you've now got in Europe a sort of government-by-proxy of everybody, who has now got carried away. Unless there is some extremely significant changes, we should get out."[138]
In a 2010 Classic FM interview, Caine said that he had persuaded a doctor to deliberately give his father a fatal overdose when he was dying from liver cancer in 1955 and endorsed voluntary euthanasia.[139]
Filmography
Partial filmography
- A Hill in Korea (1956)
- Blind Spot (1958)
- Zulu (1964)
- The Ipcress File (1965)
- Alfie (1966)
- Funeral in Berlin (1966)
- Gambit (1966)
- The Wrong Box (1966)
- Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
- Deadfall (1968)
- Play Dirty (1968)
- Battle of Britain (1969)
- The Italian Job (1969)
- Too Late the Hero (1970)
- Get Carter (1971)
- The Last Valley (1971)
- Sleuth (1972)
- The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
- The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
- The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- California Suite (1978)
- Dressed to Kill (1980)
- Deathtrap (1982)
- Educating Rita (1983)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- Mona Lisa(1986)
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
- A Shock to the System (1990)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
- Blood & Wine (1996)
- Little Voice (1998)
- The Cider House Rules (1999)
- Miss Congeniality (2000)
- Quills (2000)
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- The Quiet American (2002)
- Secondhand Lions (2003)
- Batman Begins (2005)
- The Weather Man (2005)
- Children of Men (2006)
- The Prestige (2006)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- Is Anybody There? (2008)
- Harry Brown (2009)
- Inception (2010)
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
- Now You See Me (2013)
- Interstellar (2014)
- Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
- Youth (2015)
- Going in Style (2017)
- Tenet (2020)
- Best Sellers (2021)
- The Great Escaper (2023)
Awards and honours
Caine has been nominated for an Oscar six times, winning his first
He was appointed as
In 2008, Caine was awarded the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Showbusiness at the
Bibliography
Caine has written three memoirs across several decades. He published the first, What's It All About?, in 1992, whose title is a reference to a song in his 1966 hit film Alfie. It was reviewed negatively in The New York Times, which called it an "archetypal show-business memoir" that was engaging but tainted by the book's "name-dropping, the sexual boasting, the sensitivity to slights".[151] His second memoir, The Elephant to Hollywood, was published in 2010. Janet Maslin of The New York Times reviewed it positively, calling Caine a "charming raconteur" and "wittily self-deprecating".[152] Caine's first novel, a thriller entitled Deadly Game, is set for publication in November 2023.[153]
Bibliography
- Not Many People Know That!: Michael Caine's Almanac of Amazing Information. Hodder & Stoughton. 1984. ISBN 978-0340379059.
- And Not Many People Know This Either!. Robson Books. 1985. ISBN 978-0860513452.
- Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Moviemaking. Applause Theatre Book Publishers. 1990. ISBN 9781557832771.
- What's It All About? An Autobiography. Random House. 1992. ISBN 978-0394584218.
- The Elephant to Hollywood. Henry Holt & Company. 2010. ISBN 9781429982863.
- Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life. Hachette. 2018. ISBN 978-0316451192.
- Deadly Game. Hachette. 2023. ISBN 978-1399702508.
Explanatory notes
- ^ The others are Laurence Olivier, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson and Denzel Washington.
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Michael Caine is the epitome of Sixties cool in his first outing as the secret agent Harry Palmer. His cockney smarts, his horn-rimmed glasses
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Caine's signature was undoubtedly his thick, horn-rimmed glasses. He wore a number of subtly varying styles throughout the sixties
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External links
- Official website
- Michael Caine at IMDb
- Michael Caine at the TCM Movie Database
- Michael Caine at AllMovie
- Michael Caine at the BFI's Screenonline
- Michael Caine Archived 18 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Michael Caine on National Public Radio's Fresh Air in 2010
- Michael Caine on Charlie Rose
- "The Films of Michael Caine" on YouTube—Compilation of film clips, 4 minutes
- PLAY DIRTY/Caine Special on Location in Spain
- Martyn Palmer, "Double act: Michael Caine and Jude Law (lunch and discussion)", The Times, 17 November 2007
- Charlie Rose video interview 3 February 2003
- IGN.com interview 18 March 2003
- 200 years of Michael Caine's family tree
- Sir Michael Caine interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, 25 December 2009