Acting in Film

Aldrich's Too Late The Hero and immediately went into The Last Valley for James Clavell.
    During the seventies he starred with Elizabeth Taylor in X,Yand Zee; with Mickey Rooney and Lizabeth Scott in Pulp; Laurence Olivier in Sleuth, for which he was awarded his second Academy nomination; Sidney Poitier in The Wilby Conspiracy; Glenda Jackson in The Romantic Englishwoman; Sean Connerv in The Alan Who Would Be King; James Caan and Elliott Gould in Hai 7y & Walter Go 'To New York; Maggie Smith in California Suite, and with Henry Fends, Olivia de Havilland and Richard Widmark in The Swarm.
    He made 21 films in the eighties including Dressed to Kill (directed by Brian de Palma); Victory (John Huston); The Hand (Oliver Stone); Death Trap (Sidney Lumet); Educating Rita (Lewis Gilbert), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and received his third Academy Award nomination; Blame It On Rio (Stanley Donen); The Holcroft Covenant (John Frankenheimer); Hannah And Her Sisters (Woody Allen) winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor; Sweet Liberty (Alan Alda), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Frank Oz) for which he was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Actor In a Comedy.

    He returned to television for the first time in over 20 years in 1986 to star in the four hour mini-series Jack The Ripper, which in Britain received the highest ratings ever for a drama.
    With his partner -leading American producer, Martin Bregman -in 1992 he formed a film production company, M & M Productions to make films in Britain to be directed by or starring Michael Caine. Their first produc tion is Blue Ice, co-starring Sean Young and directed by Russell Mulcahy.

    A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM
    Directed by Jan Egleson. Corsair Pictures, 1990
    Pictured with John McMartin

    In the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was awarded the CBE.
    His autobiography, What's it All About?, was published by Turtle Bay Books in November 1992.
    His most recent films are the motion picture Blood and Wine with Jack Nicholson (Feb. 1997), and the television movie Mandela and DeKlerk with Sidney Poitier. A restaurateur, Michael Caine is co-owner of Langan's Brasserie, Langan's Bistro and Odin's in London. The opening of his latest venture in England, The Canteen, in Chelsea Harbour, London took place in November 1992. His first American venture is a tropical Brasserie located in South Beach Miami, Florida.
    He is married to Shakira Baksh, a Guyana-born beauty who was a runner-up in The Miss Universe contest. They were married in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 8, 1973 and their home is in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.