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19 unusual facts about Michael Caine


Blame It on Rio

Long-time best friends Victor and Matthew (Joseph Bologna and Michael Caine, respectively) are co-workers employed by a major corporation in São Paulo, Brazil.

Honeywell 200

Honeywell 200 consoles featured in the graphic design of Len Deighton's Billion-Dollar Brain book jacket and also figured as part of the hall-sized supercomputer complex in the 1967 movie of the book starring Michael Caine and Karl Malden.

Joe de Graft

The 1975 film depicted the escape from a top-security South African prison of Wilby, the leader of anti-apartheid struggle, with the help of freedom fighter Sidney Poitier and reluctant Englishman Michael Caine, while pursued by relentless South African official Nicol Williamson.

John Sichel

His experience as a commissioner and director of drama and drama-documentaries enabled him to work with numerous prominent performers including (in addition to those already mentioned) Derek Jacobi, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery and Michael Caine.

Julianne Nicholson

In her first feature film role, Nicholson starred opposite Michael Caine and James Spader in the Peter Yates film Curtain Call.

Kevin O'Callaghan

O'Callaghan appeared in the 1981 movie Escape to Victory, cast in the unfamiliar role of goalkeeper alongside Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone and Pelé.

Lloyd McGuire

After a year or two he became disillusioned with both football and life at "the Austin" and, after watching a Michael Caine film, declared he was going to be an actor.

Louis Zorich

In 1986 he played a Swiss businessman in Club Paradise with Robin Williams, and in 1988 appeared as Nikos, the Greek millionaire, part of a group arriving in a yacht party, in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin and Michael Caine.

Marc Culwick

Marc Culwick (sometimes credited as Mark Culwick) is a British-born actor whose most famous role was as Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward in the 1988 adaption of the Jack the Ripper legend starring Michael Caine.

Meredith Braun

Meredith also acted in 1992 film The Muppet Christmas Carol opposite Michael Caine and the cast of The Muppets, and has done a number of television roles in England.

Polkovnik

In the film The Eagle Has Landed, Michael Caine wears the uniform and insignia of a pulkownik while in secret being an oberst in the German Luftwaffe.

Shoe-fitting fluoroscope

A shoe-fitting fluoroscope can be seen near the beginning of the 1967 film Billion Dollar Brain, starring Michael Caine.

Sidney Carroll

He wrote the screenplays for the 1974 Richard Chamberlain television version of The Count of Monte Cristo as well as the original story for the Michael Caine heist movie Gambit.

Simon Brett

He has also written several mystery plays and some non-series novels, of which A Shock to the System (1984) is probably best known due to the filmed version starring Michael Caine as the business executive who takes revenge after being passed over for promotion.

Sweet Liberty

Michael's book is being converted into a steamy tale of lust and betrayal with two movie stars, the egotistical lothario Elliott James (Michael Caine) and the seemingly sweet Method actress Faith Healy (Michelle Pfeiffer).

The Easter Parade

The character Lee (Barbara Hershey), one of the sisters of the title, thanks her brother-in-law Eliot (Michael Caine) for lending her the book.

The Wilby Conspiracy

Rina, estranged from her husband Blane, is having a relationship with an English mining engineer, Jim Keogh (played by Michael Caine), who has attended Shack's trial.

Until I Find You

Additionally, Jack loses the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor to Michael Caine, who also won for The Cider House Rules that year.

Willy Russell

The semi-autobiographical Educating Rita was turned into a 1983 film with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.


Aquascutum

The company has supplied aristocrats, political leaders, and actors, including three Princes of Wales, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Sir Winston Churchill, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Sophia Loren, Cary Grant, and Michael Caine.

Billion Dollar Brain

Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), who has left MI-5 to work as a private investigator, is told by a mechanical voice on the phone to take a package to Helsinki.

Blackhall Colliery

Blackhall beach made a notable appearance in the 1971 film Get Carter starring Michael Caine; in the climactic scenes the main character is involved in a chase across a coal-strewn beach.

Carve Her Name with Pride

(An uncredited Michael Caine plays the prisoner who leans forward and calls to Szabo for water; in real life, that was the war hero F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, as recorded by Leo Marks in Chapter 76 of his book Between Silk and Cyanide).

Chatham Naval Memorial

The novel was adapted into a film and directed by Australasian director Fred Schepisi and starred inter alia Sir Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone and Helen Mirren.

Dunston Power Station

When in operation, the B station briefly featured in Get Carter, a 1971 crime film starring Michael Caine.

Eva Renzi

Born Evelyn Renziehausen in Berlin, Germany, she was introduced in the 1966 Harry Saltzman film Funeral in Berlin, sequel to The Ipcress File, second in the Len Deighton Harry Palmer trilogy, playing Mossad agent "Samantha Steel" opposite Michael Caine.

Harry and Walter Go to New York

Harry and Walter Go to New York is a 1976 American period comedy film written by John Byrum and Robert Kaufman, directed by Mark Rydell, and starring James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning and Lesley Ann Warren.

Johannes Eppler

Eppler and his radio operator Sandstede are plainly the source for the two German spies portrayed by Lee Montague and Michael Caine in the British film of The Cat and the Mice, retitled Foxhole in Cairo (1960).

Peter Stone

Michael Caine lists Charade as his 4th favorite film of all time, behind only Casablanca, The Third Man, and On the Waterfront.

Phil Cornwell

These impersonations - augmented by many others, including the series narrator, Michael Caine - formed the backbone of the BBC TV series Stella Street, written and performed with John Sessions.

Play Dirty

In North Africa in World War II, Captain Douglas (Caine) is a BP employee seconded to the Royal Engineers to oversee handling incoming fuel supplies for the British 8th Army.

Ronald Hines

In 1988 he played Home Secretary Henry Matthews in the TV film Jack the Ripper which starred Michael Caine.

Sony HDVS

World War II: When Lions Roared (also known as Then There Were Giants) is a 1994 TV movie, directed by Joseph Sargent, that stars John Lithgow, Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins as the three major Allied leaders.

Switching Channels

According to his autobiography "Still Me", one of the main reasons he took the role was because Michael Caine was originally lined up to play Burt Reynolds role, and he had enjoyed working with Caine a decade earlier in Deathtrap, but after signing on found out that Caine had been booted out in favor of Reynolds.

Walter Riml

His last filmwork was in 1970, a documentary for US television about the film The Last Valley with Michael Caine and Omar Sharif.