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 Citizen Caine 21-Nov-2000
Michael Caine was officially knighted by the Queen in a ceremony held on Thursday, November 16.
Caine chose to be knighted under his real name of Maurice Micklewhite, Junior, in honour of his father, but will be known professionally as Sir Michael Caine.
"I was named after my father and I was knighted in his name because I love my father," he said.
"I always kept my real name - I'm a very private and family-orientated person." He added: "When I go home, I leave Michael Caine the film star with the costumes, the wigs and the props in the studio."
Attending with him were his wife S
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 Citizen Caine 5-Sep-2000
Sir Michael Caine is to receive the Donostia award for career achievement at the San Sebastian Film Festival later this month.
The event, which runs from 21-30 September, will also premiere Sir Michael's new film Shiner, a gritty thriller set in London's East End in which he plays the father of a promising young boxer (Matthew Marsden).
The 67-year-old star is the latest British actor to win the prestigious Donostia award.
Previous recipients include Vanessa Redgrave and Jeremy Irons.
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 Citizen Caine 14-Aug-2000
Sir Michael Caine's next project will be a film version of Graham Swift's Booker Prize-winning novel, Last Orders.
Caine will play butcher Jack Dodds, whose dying wish is that his ashes be scattered by his friends into the sea.
The film is set in Bermondsey, South London, Caine's birthplace and also stars Caine's friend Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, David Hemmings and Ray Winstone.
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 Citizen Caine 11-Aug-2000
Born in 1933 in Bermondsey, South London, young Maurice Micklewhite grew up in extreme poverty, as one of three children (although he did not know of his elder brother David's existence until the 1980s).
He took up acting after serving in Korean with the British Army. He spent a decade in repertory theatre and playing small roles in TV and films until his first major role in Zulu (1964), where he played an aristocratic British officer. But it was Alfie (1966) that made him a star and he was Oscar nominated for his role as a self-confessed womaniser.
The years that followed brought a st
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