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Biographic - Sunday June 15, 2008 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

Biographic - Sunday June 15, 2008 Comic Strip
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Michael Caine. Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, the son of a fish market porter, in London, on March 14, 1933. At 18, he was conscripted to the British army and saw action in the Korean War. Following his discharge, he took a job with a small theatre company, adopting the stage name Michael Scott. It was the start of a 10-year struggle to succeed in his chosen career and the strain of living hand-to-mouth put an end to a short-lived marriage that produced a daughter. Learning that there was already an actor called Michael Scott, he was obligated to choose another stage name, and inspired by a billboard for the Humphrey Bogart movie "The Caine Mutiny" he became Michael Caine. Slowly but surely the size and frequency of his roles increased, including regular tv work. He finally got his big break when he landed a major role in 1964's "Zulu" He was soon cast as secret agent Harry Palmer in "The Inpcress File" The bespectacled, working-class Palmer was the antithesis of the sophisticated James Bond, but just at successful at the box office. His next movie was "Alfie" and his performance as the Romeo with the gift of gab earned him an Oscar nomination. Finally, at the age of 32, Caine was a star! By the early 1970's, such hits as "Funeral in Berlin" "The Italian Job" and "Get Carter" had cemented that star status. Caine worked hard and played harder. But his international playboy days ended when he fell in love with beautiful Indian Model Shakira, they married in 1973 and have a daughter together. He established a reputation as a prolific, yet occasionally indiscriminate actor. The likes of "The Swarm" and "Jaws: The Revenge" were savaged by the critics, but he received Oscar nominations for his work in "Sleuth" and "Educating Rita." He won his first Oscar for 1986s "Hannah and Her Sisters" and received a second for 1999's "The Cider House Rules" he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000. 2002's "The Quiet American" earned him a sixth Academy Award nomination. He and Jack Nicholson are the only two actors to be an Oscar-nominated for leading or supporting roles in every decade since the 1960s. Over half a century on from his screen debut, Caine is now a star of Blockbuster action movies, thanks to his role in butler Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films.