Cuarón's feature, Children of Men, an adaptation of the P. D. James novel starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine, received wide critical acclaim, including three Academy Award nominations.

Michael Caine played Harry Palmer in the films based on three of the first four of the published novels featuring this character, and also later in two films not based on Len Deighton's novels.

Caine was averaging two films a year, but these included such failures as the BAFTA Award-nominated The Magus ( 1968 ), the Academy Award-nominated The Swarm ( 1978 ), Ashanti ( 1979 ) ( which he claimed were the worst three films of all the other worst films he ever made ), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ( 1979 ), The Island ( 1980 ), The Hand ( 1981 ) and a reunion with his Sleuth co-star Laurence Olivier in The Jigsaw Man ( 1982 ).

The story is told in three main arcs, with almost all of it occurring during a 24-month period beginning and ending at Thanksgiving parties hosted by Hannah ( Mia Farrow ) and her husband, Elliot ( Michael Caine ).

The first vampire, Caine, had three childer, who in turn had thirteen childer of their own ( then known as the Antediluvians, founders of the main vampire Clans.

In 1999 Bill Wade gets Moxy back together into his home studio, with Earl Johnson and Buddy Caine after a 20 year recording gap, to produce Moxy's fifth studio album appropriately titled Moxy V. The new album V released in 2000, returned them to the hard rock sound of the first three albums.

Absimiliard hopes to exterminate all of her childer, the clan Nosferatu, in atonement for his crimes before Caine or in bitter vengeance.

In Vampire: The Masquerade and related media, the strength of vampirical powers is often correlated with the vampire's generation, i. e. the generational distance between the original vampire Caine and the vampire, where Caine was the first generation, his childer were the second, etc.

Caine grew up in Southwark, South London, and during the Second World War, he was evacuated to North Runcton near King's Lynn in Norfolk.

In 1981, Wark was one of several Ipswich players who appeared alongside stars including Bobby Moore and Pelé in the Second World War football film Escape to Victory, which starred Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow.

In Kung Fu: The Next Generation ( 1987 ), the story moves to the present day and centers on the story of Johnny Caine ( Brandon Lee ), who is the great-grandson of Kwai Chang Caine.

On each successive generation these powers become more and more diluted as a result of a curse set upon the Third Generation by Caine himself.

Hugh Le Caine, John Hanert, Raymond Scott, composer Percy Grainger ( with Burnett Cross ), and others built a variety of automated electronic-music controllers during the late 1940s and 1950s.

Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ); The Big Sleep ( 1946 ); Dark Passage ( 1947 ) and Key Largo ( 1948 ), with his wife Lauren Bacall ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ); In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ); The African Queen ( 1951 ), for which he won his only Academy Award ; Sabrina ( 1954 ); and The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ).

Beauty pageant coach Victor Melling ( Michael Caine ), whose reputation was ruined after his last contestant criticized his methods, teaches the tomboyish Hart how to dress, walk, and act like a contestant.

( 1963 ), The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ), Away All Boats ( 1956 ), The Enemy Below ( 1957 ), From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ), Kings Go Forth ( 1958 ), Never So Few ( 1959 ), The Mountain Road ( 1960 ), and In Harm's Way ( 1965 ).

* The Holcroft Covenant ( 1985 ), story from Robert Ludlum starring Michael Caine

Other films include The 25th Hour ( 1967 ), with Virna Lisi ; The Magus ( 1968 ), with Michael Caine and Candice Bergen, and based on the novel by John Fowles ; La Bataille de San Sebastian ( Guns for San Sebastian ) with Charles Bronson ; and The Shoes of the Fisherman, where he played a Catholic Archbishop in a Soviet Ukrainian prison who becomes Pope.

After the release of The IPCRESS File in 1965, Saltzman's production company made Funeral in Berlin ( 1966 ) and Billion Dollar Brain ( 1967 ), both starring Michael Caine.

Caine played a British con-man in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), and Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol ( 1992 ).

Caine was born in St Olave's Hospital, Rotherhithe, Southwark, the son of Ellen Frances Marie ( née Burchell ; 1900-1989 ), a cook and charwoman, and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a fish market porter.

After working on The Italian Job with Noël Coward, and a solid role as RAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Canfield in the all-star cast of Battle of Britain ( both 1969 ), Caine played the lead in Get Carter ( 1971 ), a British gangster film.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

The character's name was chosen by Caine, who was having lunch with Harry Saltzman.

Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.

Baker told Caine to meet the director, Cy Endfield, who informed him that he already had given the part that Baker had tipped Caine for to James Booth, a fellow Cockney who was Caine's friend, because he looked more Cockney than Caine did.

Horatio was the only classical role Caine, who had never received dramatic training, would ever play.

The British comedy sketch show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, included a series of sketches in which Paul Whitehouse played a character called Michael Paine ; an amalgam of previous Michael Caine impressions, who in a reference to the The Ipcress File wears oversized, thick-rimmed glasses and a trench coat.

The Trip, starring Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, featured improvised scenes in which the two leads argue over who can do the better Michael Caine impression.

John Caine ( born in Salford, Lancashire, England ) is an author and playwright who was appointed MBE in 1987 for his services to theatre.

* The Caine Mutiny was only the second film of Robert Francis, who was being groomed for stardom – but on 31 July 1955, he was killed when the private plane he was piloting crashed shortly after take off from Burbank airport.

Despite the fact Wouk had already worked the material from the novel into a stage play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which premiered on Broadway in January 1954 and ran for a year, Herman Wouk's attempt at writing the screenplay was considered " a disaster " by director Edward Dmytryk, and he was replaced by Stanley Roberts, who later quit when told to cut the film down to two hours.

He eventually returns to Amber, which is in mourning: the news has just come that Caine has been murdered, and Bleys injured, by a mystery assassin with a rifle-an assassin who demonstrates ( with a thrown bomb at Caine's funeral, which misses any other family members ) that he has access to something with explosive properties in Amber.

Alfie tells the story of a young man ( Caine ) who leads a self-centred life, purely for his own enjoyment, until events force him to question his uncaring behaviour and his aloneness.

Danny Sewell's main competitor at audition for the role of Sikes was Michael Caine, who later stated he " cried for a week " after failing to secure the part.

The film was written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars along with Mia Farrow as Hannah, Michael Caine as her husband, and Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as her sisters.

He has also written several mystery plays and some non-series novels, of which A Shock to the System ( 1984 ) is probably best known due to the filmed version starring Michael Caine as the business executive who takes revenge after being passed over for promotion.

* It is also referred to in the Michael Caine film Alfie about one of his " birds " who can cook, but her only dishes are " Lancashire hotpot and steak and kidney pie.

Eric then contacts Corwin by Trump, who reveals that he knew about his plans from Caine and the two engage in a mental duel which Corwin is unable to break from.

Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!

In another turn in the " not so nice " category, MacMurray played the cynical, duplicitous Lieutenant Thomas Keefer in 1954's The Caine Mutiny.

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times states: " Unlike the 1966 British film on which it is based, with its abrasive star-making turn from Michael Caine, the new ' Alfie ' doesn't chase social significance-it just wants us to have a good time.

Caine offers to turn over the original copy of the formula ( which he had got from Esau ) in return for the release of his partner Yosuta.