Popular British actor Michael Caine he dreamed of being an actor since childhood. He began his rich career in amateur and provincial theater companies, and in the second half of the 1950s he also began to appear in film and television. To this day, he has acted in more than a hundred films of various genres and qualities and – as he once stated – he has replaced everything in front of the camera. He was a homosexual, a murderer, a madman, an adulterer, a seducer, or an intrepid hero. And he enjoyed all the roles. The British elegant with a penchant for pipes and cigars, who has two Oscars to his credit, celebrated his ninetieth birthday on March 14.
He won an Oscar for his role as a philanderer
Cain is perhaps most famous as the scheming husband of Eliot v Hana and her sisters (1986) Woody Allenfor which he won the Oscar for Best Actor acting in a supporting role. And in 2000 he added another za Rules of the cider house. In the same year, he was knighted by the British Queen for his contribution to the dramatic arts – under his real name Maurice Micklewhite.
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Michael 101 Dalmatians
Michael Caine was born in a telephone booth in London’s Leicester Square in the 1960s. There, the promising actor frantically searched for a stage name, for which his agent was waiting on the other end of the line: “I looked up and saw the title of the movie being shown in the cinema through the trees: Caine Mutiny. If I was looking the other way, I would be Michael 101 Dalmatians,“ he described later with exaggeration.
MacLaine was teaching him to take off his stockings
Shirley MacLaine (88) brought him to Hollywood when she chose him as her partner in the film Gambit (1966). In one of the interviews, she told how she taught him to take off women’s stockings “in a gentle and romantic way”.
The winner of two Oscars, actor and British Sir Michael Caine arrived on the red carpet! kviff.tv
»I took everything!«
Caine’s elegant appearance predestined him for the roles of diplomats, officers, but also spies and thugs in films of various genres and qualities. Some were unloaded flops: “I took everything because I was afraid that no one would offer me anything.” confesses honestly. There were times when he shot up to one film a month.
Three bottles of vodka a day
The 1970s were a roller coaster of good and bad movies and life moments for him. He began to drink seriously, according to his autobiography, up to three bottles of vodka a day. “Alcohol takes away your shyness, that’s practical for an actor.” Fortunately, however, love entered his life, which put an end to the disaster.
He spotted his wife in an ad
He saw the woman of his heart in a coffee commercial that was filmed in Brazil. He thought he would go there to see her, but then it turned out that the beauty was not from Brazil at all, but lived on London’s Fulham Road. They met, got to know each other, got closer, got married and have a daughter together, Natasha. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, his wife was the actress Patricia Haines.
A rough childhood forced him to play
However, Michael Cain did not have a happy childhood. A son, Maurice Joseph, was born on March 14, 1933, to a postman, Micklewhite, and his wife, who worked as a cleaner.
However, the first acting experience came soon. Already at the age of three, he had to convince the tenancy collector that “mommy’s not home” while she was hiding behind the main door. That’s how he described it in his memoirs What is it all about? from 1992.
Hell in the Korean War
He left school at 16 and worked as a messenger or clerk. After a difficult period of military service, he went through the hell of the Korean War, the bloody memories are said to accompany him to this day.
He returned to England and as a twenty-year-old established himself in a small country theater in Sussex. He only caught Hollywood’s attention when he was thirty-one in a war film Zulu (1964). He was supposed to play an ordinary soldier, but thanks to his statuesque figure and intelligent appearance, he got the role of a snobbish aristocratic officer.
Success with Nicholson
When he published his first memoir in 1992, he intended to quit acting, write a novel, and devote himself to gardening and family. But then he made a movie Blood and wine with an American actor Jack Nicholson (85).
After its release in 1996, Caine was offered other roles. Viewers also know him from movies, for example Alaska on fire, The quiet American or from Christopher Nolan’s commercially successful trilogy Batman begins, dark Knight a The Dark Knight rose.
Big role in Jáklov Žižek
He also achieved success in the film Harry Brown, where as an ex-Marine he takes revenge on his friend’s killers. In recent years, he played the main role in a crime film Kings of Thieves and also appeared in a historical film Peter Jákl Jan Žižkain which he played one of the most prominent roles, the fictional character Lord Borš, the king’s right-hand man Wenceslas IV. and a fighter for the rights of ordinary people.
Caine had already seen Jáklov Žižka, he flew out of Vary right after the screening Markéta Reinischová
In 2010, he published a second book of memoirs. In addition to reminiscing about famous co-stars, Caine, who has won three Golden Globes and other awards, also advises aspiring actors on how to conquer Hollywood. He received instructions for success directly from John Wayne (†72): “Remember to speak deeply, slowly and not to say too much”.
He shone in Vary
Last year, Caine was a guest at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where he received an award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema. In Karlovy Vary, he personally presented an American comedy in the world premiere Bestsellersin which he played a grumpy aging writer who embarks on one last tour to save a failing publishing house.
Shortly after, he announced his retirement from acting. In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live in October 2021, he said that comedy Bestsellers is probably his last film. He started writing instead of playing.
Unceasing applause: Sir Michael Caine received the KV award at the IFF Peter Macek
The Queen Elizabeth II. she ennobled Caine
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