There are prestigious actors and others, popular. Not many have both characteristics. Michael Cain, yes. The English interpreter continues to be so loved by the public and his colleagues that even Tom Cruise has chosen to skip the last episode of the Oscars and has preferred to cross the Atlantic Ocean to be present at Caine’s birthday.
Of course, it wasn’t just any birthday: Briton Michael Caine celebrated 90 years, surrounded by family and friends, in an exclusive London café. The friendship was born during the filming of one of the films of the saga Austin Powers.
With almost 70 years of career, there are dozens of films in which he has participated: his face is one that everyone has seen, at least once, in the cinema or on television. Always active, his most recent work is in film Medieval, released last year, where he plays a priest. A long-lived star, one of the few in Hollywood,
The secret in their eyes
His sense of humor, a lot British, allowed him to admit, at the height of his popularity as a fashionable leading man and actor, that what many critics identified as a “seductive and mysterious” appearance, was simply his short-sighted frown. His distinctive square glasses were (still are) another of his hallmarks.
Caine, son of a cook and an Irish laborer who worked in the port of London, Knighted by Queen Elizabeth IIin 2000, “for his contribution to the performing arts” and managed to make a name for himself in the history of world cinema.
that child born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr. on March 14, 1933, in London, today he is Sir Michael Caine without denying his origins because, among other things, he has never lost his accent cockneytypical of London’s East End, the low-income area where he grew up and grew up.
Before becoming a Hollywood star, Oscar nominated six times (of which he won two, both as a supporting actor for Anna and her sisters AND the rules of life), Caine had to interrupt his studies as a teenager to work in various trades and thus contribute to the domestic economy, when Britain was still suffering from the consequences of the Second World War.
A soldier in the Korean War
Even before turning to acting, his childhood passion, he served as a soldier in the Korean War. Back in London, he started working in the theater doing a little bit of everything, as an actor, assistant and everything he needed, on and off stage. Also, it was then that he changed his name to the artistic one by which he became famous all over the world.
The stage name Caine was borrowed from the film The Caine Mutinyhero Humphrey Bogart, one of his references for acting.
That early phase gave him an education that would later pay off in the staggering number of different characters he played.
The hour of the protagonists
After taking part in many secondary roles, in the 60s he got the lead roles in mega productions such as Zulu, Moreover. Until he arrived in 1966 Alfio, the film that made him famous and, incidentally, gave him an extra aura of seduction. The film became such a classic that, in 2004, another British star, Jude Law, starred in a remake of the character.
Source: Clarin
