Hollywood Remembers Michael Caine
Michael Caine, born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr. in 1933, was the son of a Bishopsgate fish market porter and a cleaning woman. Young Maurice dropped out of school at the age of 15 and began a series of odd jobs, one as a tea-boy in a London theatre. Here Maurice found his metier and turned to amateur dramatics.
Caine gained recognition in Britain playing an officer in Zulu (1964), but his international stardom took off with the starring role in Alfie (1966), for which he was Oscar-nominated. He finally won an Oscar for his performance in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).
