Michael Caine
- Born: 14 Mar, 1933
Actor Michael Caine's broad South London accent and pleasant but not beautiful face were hardly the makings of a matinee idol. Yet his long-running, amazingly prolific career stands as a testament to the curly-haired actor's remarkable skill and effort. Making his way on the British stage and television screens, Caine segued to features in 1956's "Hell in Korea" which was followed by several small appearances in British films throughout the late 1950s and early 60s. After proving his versatility with a breakthrough role as an upper-crust soldier in the war drama "Zulu" (1964), Caine starred in 1965's "The Ipcress File" as working-class spy Harry Palmer, based on espionage thrillers by Len Deighton. The antithesis of James Bond's ridiculous glamour, Palmer dran...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Maurice Micklewhite: married Caine's mother in 1931; died in 1957 of liver cancer
- mother Ellen Maria Micklewhite: married Caine's father in 1931; died in 1989
- half-brother David Burchell: born in 1925; died of pneumonia in March 1992; suffered brain damage through epilepsy as a child and was physically disabled; mother had given him as an infant to foster parents; was institutionalized for 40 years
- brother Stanley Micklewhite: born in 1936
- daughter Dominique Caine: born in 1956, mother, Patricia Haines; married Rowland Fernyhough on November 10, 1981
- daughter Natasha Caine: born in July 1973; mother, Shakira Baksh; married to Tim Scott, who owns a chain of juice bars in Great Britain (wedding took place on September 9, 2000)
- wife Patricia Haines: divorced in 1957
- wife Shakira Caine: born c. 1948; of Indian descent; married on January 8, 1973; was Miss Guyana 1967; co-founded the Indian restaurant chain Planet Pappadum
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