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There are few roles in Hollywood more coveted than 007. Since the character of James Bond was first adapted to film in the 1960s, it has been taken on by six separate actors, each of them donning suits and a smirk to embody the man Ian Fleming created. Each time an actor announces their departure from the role, audiences speculate and actors hope that it might be their turn, but not Michael Caine. It’s perhaps unsurprising that Caine was once considered for the role. The man is a certified national treasure, the consistency of his Cockney accent and commanding presence...

Iconic actor Michael Caine hinted in an interview Tuesday that his upcoming movie could be the last he’s in. “I am bloody 90 now, and I can’t walk properly and all that. I sort of am retired now,” Caine told The Telegraph. Caine’s final film appearance could be in his upcoming movie, “The Great Escaper,” which tells the story of a War World II veteran who escaped his nursing home to make his way to France to attend the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the outlet reported. (RELATED: ‘Vanishing Point’ Actor Barry Newman Dead At 92) The movie is based on...

Michael Caine turned 90 this week. I can hardly believe it. Caine was born in 1933, and like his irreplaceable contemporaries — Robert Duvall (Born 1931) and Clint Eastwood (born 1930) — he keeps on keeping on. How fortunate we are for that. If you read Caine’s superb 1992 autobiography, What’s It All About?, you’ll discover that his true contemporaries were legends like Peter O’Toole and Terence Stamp and that he grew frustrated watching their careers explode while he scraped along… But he hung in there, and stardom finally arrived at the ripe old age of 31 with Zulu (1964),...

Sir Michael Caine has responded to the claim that his 1964 film Zulu incites the far-right, calling it “XXXXXXXX”. Earlier this year, the film was cited as a “key text” for “white nationalists/supremacists” during a review into the government’s counter-terrorism programme Prevent. Speaking to The Spectator, Caine revealed he got the part of arrogant, inexperienced Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead in Zulu after playing “a cockney bloke in the West End in a play called Next Time I’ll Sing To You.” “An American director who was in the audience saw me and gave me a part in the film Zulu as a...

The best drinking stories of a time gone by. Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Michael Caine, Oliver Reed & Keith Moon.

Sir Michael Caine, the iconic British actor who has a net worth of $78 million, said he strongly supports Brexit -- the plan for England to leave the European Union (EU) next year -- and stressed that he doesn't listen to the liberal pundits who claim that Brexit will make people poorer and added that it is better to be "a poor master of my fate" than to rely on a stranger to supposedly make "me rich by running it." "I don't listen to all these pundits," said Caine on the Oct. 18 broadcast of BBC Radio 4 Today. "I'm...

It's 2016. Isn't it about time a black person won an Academy Award? Well, okay, black people have won Academy Awards.* But shouldn't black people be nominated every time the awards are held? And don't say, "Leave us alone, we picked a black guy already," because that makes you sound like the 2016 Democrats. Charlotte Rampling, who's nominated this year for her role in a movie you haven't seen, made the mistake of saying the #OscarsSoWhite boycott campaign is racist. Sure, it's literally true that demanding concessions based on race is racist, but that doesn't mean she should say it....

"The Last Valley" stars Michael Caine and Omar Sharif, it's set in Germany in the 1640s during the Thirty Years War.I stumbled upon this forgotten masterpiece from 1971 a few days ago when I obtained some old VHS tapes from a friend. Just update the story line 400 years, change it to Christians vs Muslims, give everybody an AK-47, and this may be what the future is going to bring. The movie flopped at the box office for a number of reasons unrelated to its quality. The John Barry soundtrack alone is stunning. "The Last Valley" is now on Youtube...

The world's crops are being devastated. People face mass starvation. The earth is dying. A team of scientists sets out on an interstellar journey to find a new planet for the people of earth. From Wikipedia:Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine, the film features a team of space travelers who travel through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet... Interstellar premiered on October 26, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Commercially, it is scheduled for a limited release in North America (United States and...

HIS name is Michael Caine – but then again it very nearly wasn’t. Not a lot of people know that when Caine first embarked on his acting career in 1954 he had originally decided to replace his birth name of Maurice Micklewhite with the punchier Michael Scott. When he called his agent from a phone box in Leicester Square, however, he was informed the name was already taken and he needed another one pronto.

This film has been out in England since 2009 and it must have played a role in people's perceptions of the Labor Party as the old Death Wish films did for the Democrats before Ronald Reagan swept into the White House 20 years ago. Michael Caine plays the highly decorated Royal Marine, Harry Brown with great subtlety and feeling in a film set in horrific tenements called, with certain irony, The Estates. It brings to mind Kubrik's flashy Clockwork Orange, with hints of social drama and a political message, but from a different and more reactionary and refreshing perspective. Caine's...

Michael Caine switches allegiance to Conservatives British film icon Sir Michael Caine has abandoned his support of the Labour party and announced he will vote Conservative at the next general election. By Nick Collins Published: 4:58PM GMT 01 Nov 2009 Michael Caine as Harry Brown The actor, 76, a former Labour supporter, condemned the “terrible state” that has been allowed to develop in Britain and said he planned to change his allegiance at the next election. For his latest film, Harry Brown, about violence on Britain’s streets, Sir Michael spent time with a gang from a tough inner London estate,...

British film icon Sir Michael Caine has abandoned his support of the Labour party and announced he will vote Conservative at the next general election. The actor, 76, a former Labour supporter, condemned the “terrible state” that has been allowed to develop in Britain and said he planned to change his allegiance at the next election. For his latest film, Harry Brown, about violence on Britain’s streets, Sir Michael spent time with a gang from a tough inner London estate, who were hired as extras.

Some snapshots of where Europe's headed: Following my post about Andrew Lloyd Webber, Michael Caine is now threatening to quit Britain over its tax rates. I last ran into him a year or two back at Spiaggia in Chicago (Barack Obama's favorite restaurant apparently) when I was dining with my old boss Conrad Black, and Sir Michael, who was in town filming his Alfred the Butler turn for The Dark Knight, and his lovely wife Shakira came over to say hello. Anyway, enough of the social notes. Caine works hard for his nights out at Spiaggia, which is more than...

NEW YORK -- Actor Christopher Reeve knows how to get to fellow celebrities. As consultant to the upcoming PBS series Freedom, he wanted well-known actors to provide voices for characters from American history. But if he went through managers, publicists or agents, Reeve knew he'd get some brush-offs. So he wrote to the celebrities themselves. He assembled an impressive list: Jennifer Aniston, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams and many others. Reeve, 50, wanted to participate because his half brother, a teacher in rural Vermont, had such trouble...