Not Many People Know That: Michael Caine's Almanac of Amazing Information (Coronet Books)

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His performance in Educating Rita in 1983 earned him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

isn't all that different from other trivia books (aside from its odd sprinkle of Michael Caine stardust). Slack had been doing it for three decades but wasn’t allowed to sit in the throne, so she had to squat above it. Proud of his working class roots, Caine has discussed the opportunities his film career gave him: "I got to play football with Pelé, for God's sake. Caine announced his retirement from acting in a BBC Today radio programme interview with Martha Kearney.Caine also played a suave English conman, opposite a clumsy American played by Steve Martin, in the crime comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), directed by Frank Oz. This tale is many years old, and one would think that technological advances have surely made this a problem of the past!

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote in 2011, "Caine's performance, so fervent, so agonisingly dedicated, actually gains in force and touching sincerity with the years.That same year Caine also appeared in Philip Kaufman's controversial yet acclaimed film Quills (2000) as Dr. In the 1840s, a big—dare we say, cheesy—grin was seen as childish, so one London photographer told people to say “prunes” to keep their mouths taut. Often playing a Cockney, Caine made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in British films such as Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), The Italian Job (1969), and Battle of Britain (1969).