Sir Michael Caine - Lower Road, Rotherhithe, London, UK
N 51° 29.826 W 000° 03.215
30U E 704511 N 5709223
The plaque is on the wall of the former St Olave's Hospital. It is assumed to be former as there is no name plate but it appears to still be a NHS property.
Waymark Code: WMDK7X
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/24/2012
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The plaque is on the wall of, what used to be, St Olave's
Hospital in Lower Road, Rotherhithe. The plaque reads:
Around the edge:
"London Borough of Southwark"
In the centre:
"Sir Michael Caine / 1933 - / Film legend / Born is St Olave's Hospital, /
Rotherhithe".
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"Born Maurice Micklewhite in London, Michael Caine was the son of a
fish-market porter and a charlady. He left school at 15 and took a series of
working-class jobs before joining the British army and serving in Korea during
the Korean War, where he saw combat. Upon his return to England he gravitated
toward the theater and got a job as an assistant stage manager. He adopted the
name of Caine on the advice of his agent, taking it from a marquee that
advertised The Caine Mutiny (1954). In the years that followed he worked in more
than 100 television dramas, with repertory companies throughout England and
eventually in the stage hit, "The Long and the Short and the Tall." Zulu (1964),
the 1964 epic retelling of a historic 19th-century battle in South Africa
between British soldiers and Zulu warriors, brought Caine to international
attention. Instead of being typecast as a low-ranking Cockney soldier, he played
a snobbish, aristocratic officer. Although "Zulu" was a major success, it was
the role of Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File (1965) and the title role in Alfie
(1966) that made Caine a star of the first magnitude. He epitomized the new
breed of actor in mid-'60s England, the working-class bloke with glasses and a
down-home accent. However, after initially starring in some excellent films,
particularly in the 1960s, including Gambit (1966), Funeral in Berlin (1966),
Play Dirty (1969), Battle of Britain (1969), Too Late the Hero (1970), The Last
Valley (1971) and especially Get Carter (1971), he seemed to take on roles in
below-average films, simply for the money he could by then command. There were
some gems amongst the dross, however. He gave a magnificent performance opposite
Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and turned in a solid one as a
German colonel in The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Educating Rita (1983) and Hannah
and Her Sisters (1986) (for which he won his first Oscar) were highlights of the
1980s, while more recently Little Voice (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999)
(his second Oscar) and Last Orders (2001) have been widely acclaimed."
Source IMDB website.