Michael Caine's biography

Michael Caine is 89 years old film actor born at Rotherhithe. He was born on Tuesday 14th of March 1933. According to year of birth 1933 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 14th of March means he is Pisces. Pisces is a Watery Sign. They are very intuitive people. They are empathic, emotional and highly spiritual in nature.He was married 2 times.

Michael Caine's spouse

He is married to Shakira Caine

He is citizen of United Kingdom. His primary profession is to be film actor. You can know him also as writer, autobiographer, stage actor, television actor. He is recently known as actor.

Michael Caine's family

Michael Caine's spouse

Shakira is known as actor. His spouse was born on Sunday 23rd of February 1947 in British Guiana.

Michael Caine's ex spouses

Patricia Haines

Michael Caine and Patricia Haines have been together since 1955 for 7 years. She is known as actor. His ex spouse was born on Wednesday 3rd of February 1932 in Sheffield. His ex spouse died on Monday 21st of February 1977 in Northampton. Patricia Haines was 44 years old, when this happened.

Michael Caine's schools

We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: Hackney Downs School.

Detailed informations about his schools

Was a wartime refugee spending six years in North Runcorn, Cheshire where he attended the village school.

Michael Caine's career

His main focus is to be film actor. You could see him also in Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules, Educating Rita, Jack the Ripper, Little Voice, Youth and many more.

Awards and competitions

Michael Caine's Awards

He received award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for work Hannah and Her Sisters in 1987
He received award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for work The Cider House Rules in 2000
He received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for work Educating Rita in 1983
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Educating Rita in 1983
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for work Jack the Ripper in 1989
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Little Voice in 1999
He received award for European Film Award for Best Actor for work Youth in 2015

Michael Caine's Rankings

Ranked #55 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1987]
Ranked 10th highest grossing actor of all time with his previous films grossing $3.2 billion [2016].

Michael Caine's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for work Alfie in 1966
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for work Dressed to Kill in 1981
He was nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for work Jaws: The Revenge in 1988
He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Actor for work Last Orders in 2001
He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Actor for work Youth in 2015

What Michael Caine has done for a first time

His first American accent was in the film Hurry Sundown (1967). He was taught the Southern drawl by Vivien Leigh, who told him to say "four door Ford" all day long for weeks. (source - "What's it all about?" Michael Caine's autobiography - 1992)
The soundstage at Shepperton Studios, in which he filmed Batman Begins (2005), is also the one where he filmed his very first film, A Hill in Korea (1956).
Was the first person to be nominated for an acting Razzie Award for more than one title. He was nominated for Worst Actor of 1980 at the very first Razzie Awards for his roles in the films Dressed to Kill (1980) and The Island (1980).
Once said that he knew he had made it as an actor when he started getting scripts to read that no longer had coffee stains already on them (meaning that he was the first choice for that role).
He was the first choice for the role of Marvin in City of Ghosts (2002), which went to James Caan.
Made his first screen appearance in a Watneys beer commercial in 1959.

Michael Caine's quotes

[in 1967] I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
My name is Michael Caine.
[on Jaws: The Revenge (1987)] I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In The Quiet American (2002) you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl. I'm sure of it, now I'm nearly seventy.
The best research [for playing a drunk] is being a British actor for 20 years.
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this--a movie star will say, "How can I change the script to suit me?" and a movie actor will say. "How can I change me to suit the script?"
Be like a duck, my mother used to tell me. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.
My view is that you should always do remakes of failures. Then you've got nowhere to go but up, you know? They can't say, "Well, it's not as good as the original, you made a piece of crap". They'd just say, "What a piece of crap that was," anyway.
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
Whenever anyone asks me to do something about my life's work, I keep saying, "Please, I haven't finished yet. Can you give me another year?" . . . In a lifetime achievement award, you just have to watch yourself grow old in 45 minutes.
[on Richard Gere] He's got a pin-up image, which he hates. The only trouble is this: whenever they ask him to take his trousers off, he does.
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
I'll always be around because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
In England I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
I'm the original bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
[about remakes of his classic films such as Get Carter (1971) and The Italian Job (1969)] I wish they would remake the BAD ones!
I've made an awful lot of films. In fact, I've made a lot of awful films.
Educating Rita (1983) was wonderful, I did it with Julie Walters, the original girl. She is sensational, really fantastic, and she is a very nice person as well, which is always a bonus.
[on Otto Preminger] O.P. is only happy if everybody else is miserable. Still, if you can keep his paranoia from beating you down, you can learn a lot from the guy.
[on Ray Milland] A nice old bloke.
I love HD. Of course, it's very unforgiving, especially on young beautiful ladies, but thank God I'm old, I don't care.
Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
When he was nominated for an Oscar for Educating Rita (1983): Irene Dunne and Loretta Young stopped me and said, 'We both voted for you.' I couldn't believe it!
On his first days in Hollywood: It was amazing to see Fred Astaire doing his food shopping.
On learning acting in postwar Britain: There was a whole generation of English theatre actors who'd do a film in order to buy a car or a refrigerator, but really thought it was beneath them.
[When he told his parents he wanted to act, they assumed he was gay.] That's what we thought actors were, all poofs. And sometimes we were right.
Old? I stopped ageing at 38. I still am 38 . . . except when they say, 'Run up those stairs.'
I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.
(On composer John Barry during filming of Deadfall (1968)) Look at him, he's so thin. You wouldn't think he had a bloody note in him!
[on prisons] If you put people in cages, don't be surprised if they become animals.
I once read, 'You must not compete against your predecessors or your contemporaries. You must compete against yourself.' I try to look for something better and better and better.
I refuse to take myself too seriously. I learnt that from Roger Moore many years ago. He said, 'Cheer up, you'd better have a good time because this is not a rehearsal. This is life - this is the show.
I never give advice to younger actors. Because when I was their age, I used to ask actors older than me for advice, and the only advice I got was "Just give up."
[on one good reason for winning an Oscar] It might mean I'd get more scripts without other actors' coffee stains on them.
[on Sean Connery] We're still friends. I phoned him the other day on his 80th birthday, but we never see each other because he doesn't move around a lot now. He won't make another film now, no. I just asked him. He said, 'No, I'll never do it.'
Harry Brown (2009) wasn't a movie I wanted to do. It was a movie I HAD to do. I saw a lot of myself in the character and that is what drew me to the role.
I think life has got to develop as you get older and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
I'm always supremely confident as a movie actor and my own view of myself is that I'm a highly skilled movie actor.
I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. If I hadn't been an actor, or an architect, which I really wanted to be, I'd have been a stand-up comic.
I'm an icon. It says so in the paper.
I'm the United Kingdom of Michael Caine.
I know a lot of stuff but my close friend, Leslie (lyricist Leslie Bricusse), knows everything, and before Google, the two of us were sort of human Googles!
People always told me "you can't be an actor, you don't talk posh." And I said, "I'll show you how to be an actor without talking posh". And I did it.
[on Henry Fonda while shooting The Swarm (1978)]: 'He's one of the most astute actors I've ever known, with an intimate awareness of the film profession.'
I can seem quite cold and I can hold it in but it stores itself; it works later. I'm very easily moved. I'm not repressed at all.
I do a lot of charity work, but never for adults. I don't like grown-ups very much.
[on Queen Queen Elizabeth II] She knighted me once. I nearly got into trouble though. She said to me, "I have a feeling you have been doing what you do for a very long time". And I almost said, 'And so have you'.
[In order to appear strong in character] Don't blink.
[About starring in Youth (2015), Hollywood Reporter - December 2015] The only alternative to playing elderly people is playing dead people. So I picked elderly people. That's a better idea.
I am absolutely adamant about any kind of snobbery, class or anything. I really am a communist - I think I'm a bit of a Nazi because I could really kill people who practice snobbery. I'd like to kill some snobs.
I don't listen to all these pundits. I'm a Brexiteer myself. Certainly. People say "Oh, you'll be poor, you'll be this, you'll be that.". I say I'd rather be a poor master of my own fate than having someone I don't know making me rich by running it.
I don't talk to writers.

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