This Biography was compiled from Michael Caine's autobiography "What's it all about?".
| Once married Michael and Patricia decided to go to London to pursue their acting career. Unfortunately this proved hard and Michael had to take a lot of Soul destroying jobs. |
| Financial circumstances were bad and to add to it Patricia became pregnant and gave birth to Michael's first daughter Dominique. Although this was a happy event Michael found it hard to cope and after 2 and a half years of marriage Pat took Dominique back to her parents Home. Michael suffered with a huge amount of guilt and in the end, out of work and penniless returned home to his family. Michael's father was unable to work, as he was bedridden with rheumatism of the spine, so Michael was forced to take a job in a steel yard. Unfortunately Michael's father died and shortly after Michael lost his job in the steel yard. |
| Michael chose to go to Paris after his mother advised him to go away and sort himself out. Michael chose Paris as he had read such wonderful books about Paris over the years. In Paris Michael survived living in a Fleapit room in a fleapit hotel and working in a snack bar. Eventually Michael felt ready to return home. |
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When Michael arrived home he found that a telegram had been sent the day before from his agent stating that there was a job for him, a part in a film A Hill in Korea. Unfortunately the film was not a success and Michael was forced to find a new agent, however the work did not pour in. Michael was then sent to the Theatre Workshop in the East End of London where he played a part in the show of Charles Dickens "The Chimes". |
| After Theatre workshop Michael was forced to visit a casting agency, where he was chosen to play the part of a Policeman in a small film the very next day. This was the first of many small jobs like these. After Four years Michael was very close to giving up the business when his agent found him a job on TV. It was a play called The Lark. At this time Michael was known as Michael Scott, however there was already another actor of that name so Michael's Agent suggested that he should change his last name. After a lot of consideration Michael chose the name Caine after the film The Caine Mutiny which was showing at that time. |
| Over the next few years Michael's situation much remained the same, living hand to mouth, being helped out by friends, with the occasional Film Bit of TV Part. |
| As the end of the 1950's approached, jobs became fewer and of less calibre, Michaels Agent Josephene Burton unfortunately died which meant that Michael was forced to find a new Agent, which he did, called Pat Larthe. One of the biggest Movie companies in Britain at that time was Associated British Pictures, who ran their operations like an old Hollywood Studio, with a rota of Actors under contract. Michael was sent to see their Chief Casting Director, where he was told to give Acting up. This however just made Michael even more determined to succeed. |
| Michael then appeared in the TV version of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and the TV plays Requiem for a Heavyweight and The Day The Earth Caught Fire. |
| Michael at that time felt that he was being left behind, there were guys that he had started out with that were beginning to accomplish so much. |
| Michael's career finally took off again with a play One More River in Liverpool. |
| On Michaels return to London he got a lot of television work and the parts were getting bigger and therefore better paid. In 1959 Michael was offered the job of understudy in a play called The Long and the Short and the Tall. The play opened and it was an instant smash, mainly due to the great cast and especially Peter O'toole. Peter went off to make Lawrence of Arabia so Michael stayed behind and went on tour in his role in the Long and the Short and the Tall for the next few months. |
| On Michaels return to London he was arrested for the non payment of maintenance to Patricia and Dominque Micklewhite and he was ordered by the court to pay 3 pounds 10 shilling per week, which was all Michael had on him at that time, or go to jail. |
The year 1960 improved for Michael after a rocky start and financially it was Michaels best year so far. Michael played a small part in a BBC Book Programme in which they dramatised a section of the book under discussion. This was not an earth shattering job but it meant that Michael met the director John McGrath who became a good friend. |
Michael also met the play writer Harold Pinter, who wrote the play The Room in which Michael appeared in, this was a one piece act, put on at the Royal Court Theatre in London. |
At this time, 1961, Michael appeared in a Television play called Ring of Truth and then a play called Why the Chicken written by John McGrath. |
Michael also auditioned for the part of Bill Sykes in Oliver but failed to get the part, Michael felt that this was one of the biggest disappointments of his career, especially as it was destined to run for six years. |
| Michael got to know John McGrath even better which then led to Michael staring in his TV play called The Compartment |
This play proved to be a success in many ways for Michael, it meant that he proved to many people that he could remember 45 minutes of dialogue which also went out live, but the most satisfying and beneficial sign that the play and Michael were a success came a little while after it was broadcast, when Roger Moore, who was already famous for the series Ivanhoe walked up to Michael and told him that he was going to be a big star. |
That year Michael had Five major parts on TV thanks to The Compartment, he was in a play by Troy Kennedy Martin who later wrote the film The Italian Job, and also a play called Somewhere for the Night by Bill Naughton. |
Michael now had a new agent Dennis Selinger who had taken Michael on after seeing The Compartment. Dennis was the biggest agent in England and he sent Michael a play from a producer Michael Codron, the play was called Next Time I’ll Sing to You by James Saunders. The play was a big hit with the critics and ended up moving from the Arts Theatre to the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly. Michael was at last in the West End. |
| One night at the end of a performance of Next Time I’ll Sing to You, Stanley Baker, one of the biggest stars in the British Cinema, came backstage and told Michael about a part in the film Zulu. Michael got the part of Gronville Bromhead. |
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| It was now 1963 and Zulu was to be shot in the Drakensberg Mountains in northern south Africa. Zulu took 3 months to film and Michael was very homesick, as the plane took off from Johannesburg airport there was a load cheer. |
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Michael returned to London with most of his £4000 fee intact as accommodation and meals had been free and there was nowhere else to spend money. Michael immediately went to see Dominique in Sheffield. Dominique was now eight years old and crazy for Horses, so Michael bought her a horse. |
Michael’s mother was his next concern, he was not happy with her living in a prefab in such a rough area so moved her into the flat at Brixton. This was ideal at it was a big house divided into flats and some of the other people living there were his mothers age. Michael’s mother now felt safe and secure and had company. Michael saw the happiness that his money could bring and it was a source of tremendous joy. Michael soon realised however, when Dennis persuaded him to employ an accountant and open a bank account, that all Michael had left was an overdraft of £1000. |
| In order to get the part in Zulu Michael had to sign a 7 year contract with Embassy Pictures. This was to protect their investment in Michael, however the option was on their side only, and they could get out of the contract at any time, but Michael could not. The day came when Michael received a call to say that Joe would be in London and would like to see Michael. However Joe told Michael that they would not be taking up his option. He told Michael “well you are going to make it but not with us”.When Michael asked why Joe said that it was because Michael looked like a queer on screen. Michael walked home wondering how to tell Dennis that he should start looking for gay parts for him. |
The answer however was supplied for Michael by a wonderful TV director Phillip Saville who cast Michael in a classical role of Haratio. This was the ideal part for a man with Michael’s quandary. Haratio is never completely identified as butch or gay. |
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The Zulu reviews were good and from this Michael got to play the lead part in a film called The Ipcress File and a 7 year contract. Michael was now 32 years old and at last life was really changing. Suddenly Michael was able to indulge himself in all the material things that had been missing so far, he was now earning £10,000 per week. Michael decided it was time to start re-equipping his new home in Albion Close. |
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Michael bought an American Fridge and then found the biggest colour TV and put one in every room, including the bathroom and found the loudest HiFi and piped that through every room. |
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After the director Lewis Gilbert saw a rough cut of the Ipcress File, Michael was offered the part of Alfie in the film Alfie. |
| Michael was then cast as a 33 yr old virgin in The Wrong Box, this was only a small role and was a success in most places except Britain where it was a terrible flop. |
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| The reviews for Alfie were great and it very definitely established Michael as a star. |
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Suddenly Michael ended up in New York to publicise Alfie and The Ipcress File and Michael’s impossible dream had come true. |
Michaels time in New York was hectic, he appeared on numerous TV Show and had many interviews and went to even more parties. For Michaels last night in New York he went to dinner with Bette Davis. |
Dennis called Michael with the ultimate news for an actor, Shirley McClain had seen Michael in Ipcress and as her contract had stated that she had a choice of leading men, unbelievably had chosen Michael for her next film Gambit. |
Michael was once again off to America for 3 months. |
The Ipcress File had been a big success and the studio decided to film Len Deigntons third novel in the series, Funeral in Berlin. |
Michael was then offered a part in Otto Premingers new film Hurry Sundown. This part meant that Michael needed a Southern accent as the action took place in Louisiana. |
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After Hurry Sundown Michael went from Louisiana, where the temperature rarely dropped below 80 degrees, even at night, straight to Helsinki in Finland, where the temperature never went above zero even at noon. Michaels trip to Finland was in order to make the third in the Harry Palmer series of spy films, Billion Dollar Brain. |
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In London Michael worked day and night at Pinewood studios on the interiors of Billion Dollar Brain. They had got behind in Finland and needed to catch up. Once finished Michael was straight off to Paris where Shirley McClain was shooting a picture called Women Times Seven which was being directed by Vittorio Sica. This was Michael’s first “guest slot” and was very small, with only about 3 minutes of screen time and no dialogue. |
Somewhere along the line Michael had picked up a two picture deal with Twentieth Century Fox and the time had come to do the first one. This was called Deadfall. |
Michael had now settled into a period where he had no social life at all, but just went from one film to another. |
The moment Michael finished Deadfall in the Studio in London, he was on a plane to Spain to start another film, a Harry Saltzman production, a war film called Play Dirty. |
Finally it was back to London for a short respite before returning to Majorca to make The Magus which, along with Deadfall was the second of Michael’s disastrous two picture deal with Twentieth Century Fox. |
It had been 3 years and Michael was finally home in London again and his priority was to find a new flat, at present he was sharing his current flat with his brother Stanley. Michael found a beautiful flat in Grosvenor Square it was stunning, there were 3 bedrooms, 2 large lounges, a big hall, an office, a vast kitchen in which you could dine, plus a dinning room which Michael immediately turned into a little cinema with a sixteen millimetre projector. Michael also filled the place with state of the art stereo and TV equipment bought all new furniture and gave his old flat to Stanley with everything in it. Stanley was now working in the book department of Selfridges where he was very happy. |
| Michael, now comfortably ensconced in his new abode, looked at his life to see if there was anything missing. After great consideration Michael came to the conclusion that now at the age of 35 it was time to acquire a car, Michael could not drive but decided that he had enough money for a chauffeur. Michael decided a Rolls Royce it had to be. |
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| Michael’s next film The Italian Job started shooting in London directed by a young newcomer called Peter Collinson. |
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The next film for Michael was with an all star cast on a big blockbuster movie, The Battle of Britain. |
Michael went on to film Too Late the Hero a world war two story of a battle between a small unit of British Soldiers and one American against the Japanese. It was to be filmed in the Philippine Jungle and took 22 weeks in temperatures of 120 degrees everyday, plagues of insects and a diet of tined sardines and Australian cheese. As conditions were so dire Robert Aldrich the Director worked them for 14 consecutive days and then let them have 5 days off, which was enough time to get out of the country. |
At long last after what seemed like an eternity of heat, sweat and insects the location shooting was over and it was back to Hollywood for the Studio work, with a few days off for partying en route in Manila. |
Soon Michael was free to set off for Innsbruck in Austria, his next destination to film The Last Valley. |
It was 1970 and Michael decided it was time to make some changes in his life, he wanted his mother to have her own house, she was still living in the block of flats in Brixton along with various relatives. Therefore Michael bought a big house in a south London suburb called Streatham and split it into flats so that everyone could move there. |
Michael’s next plan was to become a Producer. This decision was based on the rather negative conclusion that, as Michael had worked for several allegedly great film makers and gone straight down the drain with them, he may as well go that route on his own. |
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For Michael’s first fling as a producer he went into partnership with a friend called Michael Klinger who was a producer by profession. Michael had the rights to a book called Jacks Return Home, which together they filmed under the title of Get Carter.
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| Unfortunately when the film came out it was slammed by most critics for the violence, it was just too realistic. |
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The next film Michael made was the only one for which he was never paid. It was called kidnapped, and was based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and filmed on location in Scotland. Michael returned home to London in a terrible state, he had worked very hard for 3 months. Michael new kidnapped was going to be a dud, he was now drinking very heavily and smoking about 80 cigarettes a day and consequently not in the best of spirits. |
Michael decided to take himself off to the Countryside he was in a terrible state, mentally and physically and needed rehabilitation. |
This start came from a very unexpected source, Tony Curtis. One evening Michael was at a party when he felt someone reach into his pocket remove his cigarettes from his pocket and throw them in the fire, this person was Tony, he said “I’ve been watching you, that’s the third cigarette you have lit since you entered the room and you have only been here 20 minutes”. Tony then proceeded to give Michael a lecture on the dangers of cigarette smoking, this he did with such skill that Michael gave up there and then. |
Michael decided to look for a house, he found a beautiful 2 hundred year old water mill in a little village just outside Windsor, called Clewer. It had a hundred yards of frontage to the Thames, a small stream running through the middle of it, and the actual house stood right on the main side-stream and millrace with the millwheel in it. The house was not in a good state and the garden was derelict which was exactly what Michael was looking for, he decided that his garden would be his Therapy, it was perfect. |
| Michael then received a phone call from Dennis saying that he was sending a script for himto read to star in a film with Elizabeth Taylor. It was called Zee and Co and was written by Edna O’Brien. |
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| It was now 1971 and Michael was drinking up to 3 bottles of vodka a day. One night Michael decided to stay in and have his friend Paul round for dinner and they were watching TV when an ad for Maxwell House coffee come on where a Brazilian girl was dancing around holding up maracas filled with beans. |
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The girl was dancing in a long shot but Michael felt that there was something about the girl that made him hope there would be a close up before the end of the ad. There was, and she was the most beautiful girl Michael had ever seen. The effect the girl was having on Michael was extraordinary. His heart started to pound and he grew very agitated, he found that the palms of his hands were beginning to sweat and he suddenly found himself on his knees in front of the set trying to get a closer look. Michael’s friend Paul asked him what was wrong and Michael replied “that girl, she’s beautiful” “I want to meet her”, to which Paul replied “how can you she is in Brazil”. Michael sat in his chair stunned, not understanding what was happening to him, he knew that he had to find the girl, no matter where she was, and asked Paul to go to Brazil with him to find her. Paul said he would, but that he thought he was mad. Michael thought about it and decided that in the morning he would ring Maxwell House and find out who did the commercial for them. |
| That night at a club Michael bumped into Nigel Politzer who worked for the company that made the commercial, Michael couldn’t believe his luck. Nigel told Michael that her name was Shakira Baksh and that she was Indian not Brazilian. Nigel also told Michael that Shakira lived somewhere in the Fulham Road, which was only a mile away. Nigel agreed that he would phone Shakira and ask if it was OK for Michael to call her and then phone Michael the next day to confirm this. |
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After a restless night Michael was woken by a phone call from Nigel, Shakira had said it would be OK for Michael to call. When Michael finally got hold of Shakira she told him that she knew who he was and that she had seen some of his films. Michael asked Shakira about herself and Shakira told Michael that she was Indian from a Kashmiri family, but her parents had emigrated to Guyana where she had been born. She had come to England in 1967 as Miss Guyana to compete in the Miss World Competition, where she had come third. |
| Michael decided that he would take the bull by the horns and ask Shakira out for dinner. Shakira said that she was busy for the next week and asked Michael to ring her in 10 days time. |
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| For the next 10 days Michael was in a trance. He phoned Shakira and she said yes, Michael asked for her address so that he could pick her up but she said no and that she would pick him up. |
| After and anxious wait, Shakira arrived at 8 o’clock and Michael could not believe how beautiful She was. As he took her hand he could feel vibrations through his hands and he thought of something the French say about love: L’amour, c’est une question de peau: love is a question of skin… there are only two types of touch. One is when you touch someone for the first time and can tell that it is possible to fall in love with them but not necessarily so and the other is a touch that tells you that you could never fall in love with this person. Michael knew at that moment, that it was also inevitable, at least on his part. |
Love was possible here and somewhere deep in his heart. |
| Michael suddenly realised that he had not spoken yet and asked Shakira to come in, but no actual sound came out. Michael cleared his throat and had another go, Shakira at last got came into Michaels flat and into his life forever. |
Michael had heard of love at first sight but never really believed in it, but there it was. They sat and had a drink for a while and explored each other verbally, Michael's feeling were so intense that he quickly suggested that they go out to dinner before he ruined it all by making a big pass at her. |
| After that evening Michael saw Shakira constantly, until she had to go off and do a modelling job in Mexico and Michael had to go to Malta to make a movie called Pulp. Michael and Shakira talked as often as they could by phone and the moment Shakira finished working she joined Michael in Malta and they have remained together ever since. |
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Pulp was the second film that Michael produced with Michael Klinger. It was a real oddball of a movie that never really quite worked. |
Back in England Michael invited Shakira to move into his flat and they settled down to a sort of married life without the ceremony. Very soon the lease was up on the flat and they decided to live in Windsor full time without a London base. Shakira at this time pointed out to Michael that he was drinking 2 or more bottles of vodka a day.
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This came as a complete surprise to Michael and was such a shock that he gave up drinking altogether for a year. Life was suddenly completely different and absolutely perfect, and to top it all Michael received an invitation to star opposite Lawrence Oliver in the film version of Anthony in the film version of Anthony Shaffers play Sleuth. |
| In January 1973 Michael and Shakira decided to get married in Las Vegas, they decided that they didn’t want a big fuss and they chose the romantically named “little chapel on the green”. |
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On July 1973 Shakira gave birth to a baby girl of 6lb 12oz which they called Natasha. |
Michael then started to film The Black Windmill and was then offered a part in The Marselles Contract, which unfortunately turned out to be a flop. |
The next film Micheal appeared in was called The Wilby Conspiracy. |
Michael next movie was in England, which was a relief as they had travelled a lot since their marriage. The film was called The Romantic English Women and was Michael’s first foray into the realms of “artistic films”. The film was not only very convoluted it was also downright grim. Michael decided to do it because the director Joe Losey had a tremendous reputation for being “artistic”. The Romantic English Woman not only flopped financially but the critics didn’t like it much either. |
| Michael and Shakira spent mini honeymoons in Paris, usually over a long weekend every three or four months. |
| During this trip Michael received a phone call from John Huston, he nearly dropped the phone, this was the one director whom Michael actually idolised. John asked Michael to come and see him at his hotel, he wanted Michael to be in the film of a short story by Rudyard Kipling called The Man Who Would be King and it was to be shot in Morocco. |
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The night before they started shooting they were having dinner when John Huston dropped the bombshell that the girl who was to play the part of the beautiful Indian princess was no longer available. Shakira was sitting at the table and suddenly said firmly “I am not going to play the Part”. The next day John persuaded Shakira to play the part.
Michael is very proud that he is in The Man Who Would be King he feels that it is one of the finest films he has been in. |
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| It is now 1976 and Michaels next movie was in England on location in a place called Mapledurham. The film was called The Eagle Has Landed, the story of a band of German commando’s who were sent to England during the war to assassinate Winston Churchill. |
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One of Michaels dreams had been to open a Restaurant and one day he was introduced to Peter Langam who already owned a restaurant, and he told Michael that when he was ready to do it , to come and see him. When Michael next saw Peter he told Michael that he had taken on a lease of a very well known “society” restaurant called Coq D’or. Michaels share would be a third of the action and the price was twenty five thousand pounds. |
| Langan’s Brasserie opened very quietly on a Monday night with just a few friends and passers by who happened to come in. The restaurant soon became the place to be seen. |
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Michael’s next acting role required a short trip of five days to Holland, where Michael was to play a guest in Richard Attenboroughs film about the courageous but futile attack by British paratroopers on the bridge at Arnhem in World War Two. |
One Monday morning Michael’s accountant asked to see him as a matter of urgency. It turned out that Michael and Shakira would either have to cut their standard of living or leave England, as Michael was paying so much tax he was being left penniless. |
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Michael and Shakira made the decision to move to Los Angeles, the only trouble was the houses were very expensive so Michael immediately accepted a role in the film The Silver Bears. |
| Michael was then in the film called The Swarm, he returned to England with a quarter of a million towards his house in America. |
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It was now 3rd January 1979 and Michael and Shakira were flying to Los Angeles. Michael had sold the Mill House to Jimmy Page of the Rock group Led Zeppelin for three quarters of a million pounds. |
Michael and Shakira settled into their new home quickly and soon were receiving invites from many people. |
Michaels work situation, however, not quite so rosy, before they left England Michael had done a short stint on a brilliant movie called California Suite by Neil Simon. For the first time Michael was playing a homosexual. California Suite got good reviews and so did Michael. |
Once Michael was living in Hollywood, he was rescued by his old friend Irwin Allen again, who invited him to star in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, a sequel to his successful The Poseidon Adventure. The story was about an ocean liner that had capsized at sea. |
| Professionally Michael’s luck was still running cold, although the next film he was offered The Island had all the credentials for success. |
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| Unfortunately Michael ended up with four clunkers in a row. Michael needed a miracle. This came in the shape of a film entitled Dressed to Kill. Michael’s role was somewhat bizarre, he was a transvestite psychiatrist murderer. |
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Michael’s daughter Dominique gets married to fellow equestrian Roland Fernyhough.
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| Michael’s next film was called The Hand. |
| Michael and Shakira had now been in America for three years and it was now time for Michael to go off to Hungry and start a new film called Escape to victory. |
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Although Michael was enjoying his life in Los Angeles he knew deep down that his heart was still in England. Michael could now legally spend ninety days per year in England an tried to use them up every year. |
Langan’s was now a big hit. |
Michael’s next film was Deathtrap for director Sidney Lumet in which Michael was now playing a bisexual. |
| Michael found that he had become a sort of British Social Ambassador whenever royalty or the aristocracy came to visit America. On one occasion Michael attended a big affair, the |
| visit by her Majesty the Queen. Michael found himself miles away, pondering over something when he heard a familiar voice, it was the Queen, she asked Michael if he knew any Jokes, Michael repled “yes but very few that I could tell you” “have a go” she said “and then I will tell you one”, and that is what they did the rest of the evening, swap jokes. |
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Michael turned down the picture Norma Ray in favour of Educating Rita. Educating Rita is about a working class girl who tries to better herself with education, and her relationship with the professor who becomes her mentor. |
Michael went off on his own to Mexico to shoot his next film. He hated leaving without his family but Natasha was happy at Marymount School in Westwood and Shakira was deliriously content with her life in Hollywood. The Film was called The Honorary Consul in which Michael plays the Consul himself. The picture was not well received in America. They hammered the nail in the coffin by changing the title to Beyond the limit. |
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friends and enjoyed a happy, comfortable life, but Michael had been unhappy for sometime and Shakira had noticed this. They made a deal, they both agreed that Michael’s performance in Educating Rita was the best he had ever given, so if he didn’t get an Oscar for that, there was no reason to stay in America. Robert Duvall won and Michael was going home. |
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Blame if on Rio was Michael’s next project which is a risqué comedy about a man who is seduced by his best friends young daughter. |
In the summer of 1984 Michael and Shakira decided to look for a home in England. |
After a long search they eventually found an ideal property in Oxfordshire and agreed to rent it for the summer and then buy it. The property was in a mess and would need a lot of renovation to make it as Michael and Shakira wanted. |
As Michael was finishing the film Water, he received an invitation to go straight into another The Holcroft covenant. |
| In November 1984 Michael went to New York to film Hannah and Her Sisters. |
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| In June 1985 Michaels friend Marty Bregman invited him to play a small but smashing part in his new film Sweet Liberty. |
| In February 1986 Michael went back to England to film Freddie Forsyth’s novel The Fourth Protocal. |
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After working on a small budget movie called The Whistle Blower in the South of France Michael and Shakira fled back to Los Angeles to do more packing. |
Michael was then offered a small part in the fourth of the Jaws series of films. Whilst filming the picture in Nassau Michael was informed that he had won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Hannah and her Sisters. |
Michael’s next film was surrender. |
The house was finally finished in the summer of 1987. |
In 1988 a writer director called Davide Wickes sent Michael a script based on a new and intriguing theory of the true identity of Jack the Ripper, Michael was to play the real life detective who investigated the Ripper case. It was a mini series with an American TV company. The show was a massive success all over the world. |
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Michael was then offered a part in the comedy movie called Dirty Rotten scoundrels. |
| Michael’s next film was a small budget thriller called Shock to the System, shot in New York. |
| On Michael’s return to England he plunged straight into his second mini series for TV, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. |
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Michael’s next role was in the movie version of Noises Off. It was to be made at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, which gave Michael and Shakira a chance to find a home to buy there. |
In 1992 Michael produced Blue Ice and opened a new restaurant “The Canteen” in Chelsea Harbour. |
Michael then played Scrooge in the Muppets movie version of the Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. |
Michael also wrote his autobiography “What’s it all About?” |
