biography
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Caine, Sir Michael
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properly Sir Maurice Micklewhite
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pronunciation:
[kayn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1933– )
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| biography:
| Film actor, born in London, UK. He spent many years as a struggling small-part actor in a variety of media, before winning attention for his performance as an aristocratic officer in Zulu (1963). His stardom was consolidated with roles such as down-at-heel spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File (1965) and its two sequels, and as the Cockney Romeo in Alfie (1966). Later films include Sleuth (1972), California Suite (1978), and Educating Rita (1983, BAFTA best actor). Nominated four times for the Academy Award, he won an Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). Later films include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Noises Off (1992), Blood and Wine (1996), Little Voice (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999, Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), Get Carter (2000), and The Quiet American (2002, Oscar nomination). He received a knighthood in the year 2000. |
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