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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Asia Pacific World Search Search: Michael Caine is not the retiring type AFP - Sunday, April 12 BEVERLY HILLS, California (AFP) - - With more than 100 films under his belt and two Oscars nestling on his mantlepiece, Michael Caine could be forgiven for contemplating retirement after more than half a century on the silver screen. ADVERTISEMENT Yet though the 76-year-old actor's latest role sees him playing an aging magician struggling to adjust to life as a reluctant resident of an old people's home, Caine says there is no chance of his life imitating art. "(General Douglas) MacArthur said 'Old soldiers don't die they just fade away,' and maybe it's the same with old actors too," Caine told reporters ahead of the North American release of his film "Is Anybody There?" on April 17. "I don't think you ever retire from films -- films retire you," Caine says. "Sometimes, if you're unfortunate, after your first film. "What happens is you say 'I'm going to retire.' And then someone turns up and gives you this script. So you're not retiring." "I don't have my next movie and I'm not looking for one. But someone will give me a script possibly and I'll work again. If someone doesn't give me a script that I want to do, I'll retire." "But there' won't be a great announcement or fanfare of trumpets. I just won't do anything. I'll stay at home and do what I always do, which is cooking, gardening and writing." Born Maurice Micklewhite in 1933, Caine grew up in southeast London, the Cockney son of a charlady and a fishmarket porter. He fell in love with Hollywood after seeing the "Lone Ranger" as a five-year-old. After changing his name, Caine secured uncredited roles in a string of films during the 1950s before his big break came in the 1964 classic "Zulu." One of the actor's best known films -- "The Ipcress File" -- followed before Caine shot to stardom as the morally bankrupt title character of 1966's "Alfie," which earned him the first of six career Academy Award nominations. Since then Caine has appeared in dozens of beloved film roles, from the swaggering thief Charlie Croker in 1969's "The Italian Job" to Bruce Wayne's loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth in the two most recent Batman blockbusters. Caine is contracted to reprise the role of Alfred in any follow-up to "The Dark Knight," but he believes a sequel will not happen for some time as director Christopher Nolan is committed to other projects. Most recently Caine has finished work on a British crime thriller "Harry Brown," where he plays an aging Royal Marine who turns vigilante after his friend is killed on a crime-ridden London estate. For Caine, the film was a chance to reconnect with his London roots. "It was weird for me because we went back to these estates which fortunately are being torn down," Caine said. "They were the estates where I came from and there is still a mural on a wall in this estate, of me and Charlie Chaplin, who also came from there." While "Harry Brown" echoes Caine's role in the cult 1969 British gangster film "Get Carter," his latest movie, "Is Anybody There?" takes the audience on a touching story about the unlikely friendship between the elder conjurer Clarence and Edward, a small boy who lives at the home, played by young actor Bill Milner. Caine said he agreed to do the film after reading only half of the script and being reduced to tears. "No script had ever done that to me before and I don't cry easily, believe me," Caine revealed. "I just thought it was a wonderful thing to do." While Caine insists he has little in common with the struggle against aging and dementia of his character Clarence, recent experiences in his personal life had helped him prepare for the role. "The film did give me an insight into why other people age and not me," Caine said. "But there was a sad aspect to it. For the dementia and Alzheimer's I was technically perfect because my best friend had just died of it. "I'd just spent five years watching somebody deal with it, so I knew exactly about Alzheimer's and the confusion it causes." Caine said he had few reservations about working with a young co-star in "Is Anybody There?" Milner, whose other films include recent independent hit "Son of Rambow," was 12 when filming took place. "I never got the sense that Bill was a child actor," Caine said. "I just looked at him as if he was the same as me. And we were just friends. "One reporter asked me the other day 'Did you give him any advice?' And I said no, he didn't need any advice. He never looked like he needed any help. He was just wonderful." Talk of co-stars brings Caine on to the subject of "The Dark Knight" colleague Christian Bale, who made unwanted headlines earlier this year after his lengthy rant at a crew member on the set of an upcoming "Terminator" film was leaked onto the Internet. Caine said he was "stunned" by Bale's outburst, which he described as "totally out of character." "I'm more like that than Christian is," Caine said. "You're liable to get a volley off me if you walk into one of my takes." He recounted an exchange with the late author and director James Clavell during filming of "The Last Valley" in 1970. Clavell, who had been taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II, had taken Caine aside after he had exploded in anger on set. ("I outdid Christian by about 30 minutes," Caine joked.) "James Clavell told me that what he learned from watching the Japanese was they never lost their temper in front of strangers, because you expose too much of yourself," Caine said. "So he gave me this long lecture about anger. And since that day I have never lost my temper on a set. Now I go home and scream at the kids instead." Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: Entertainment & Lifestyle US-ENTERTAINMENT SummaryReuters - Monday, April 13 Madonna still keen to adopt Malawian child: reportReuters - Monday, April 13 Michael Caine is not the retiring typeAFP - Sunday, April 12 NASA to announce module name on `Colbert Report'AP - Saturday, April 11 Dave Matthews Band's "Whiskey" a toast to MooreReuters - Saturday, April 11 Enlarge Photo Actor Sir Michael Caine in Toronto, Canada. With more than 100 films under his belt and two Oscars nestling on his mantlepiece, the veteran British actor is not contemplating retirement. Most Popular – Entertainment Viewed UN sounds warning after Antarctica ice shelf rips Bad mood, better recall, researchers find Pirate hostage siege, Italian tug grabbed Harry Potter actor arrested over cannabis find US budget deficit nears $1 trillion View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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