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

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They had a daughter, Dominique (who was named after the heroine of Ayn Rand's novel, The Fountainhead). Sir Bernard Miles spent quite some time there and rented a house at the bottom end of Paradise Square (where the AA used to be, it's a solicitors office now).

Before he deigned to appear in humble gentlemen’s quarterlies such as The Chap, Michael Caine penned a series of amusing collections of nuggets of unusual information.Did you know that it takes a man in a tweed suit five-and-a-half seconds to fall from the top of Big Ben to the ground? The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

In 1978, Caine starred in Silver Bears, an adaptation of Paul Erdman's 1974 novel of the same name, and co-starred in the Academy Award-winning California Suite.He had a younger brother, Stanley (1935–2013), who also became an actor, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell.

He announced his retirement from acting in October 2023, with his final film being The Great Escaper, which came out in the same month.

They’re usually picked between August and November, covered in wax, hot-air dried, and sent into cold storage.

In 1983, Caine used his "not a lot of people know that" phrase as a joke in the film Educating Rita. In interviews promoting the 2021 film Best Sellers, Caine suggested that he would not make another film, citing difficulty in walking and his new interest in novel-writing developed during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Caine also appeared in the children's fantasy film, Come Away (2020) starring Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

Paul Eddington was a rep actor at the Playhouse on Townhead Street, as was Peter Sallis before the BBC took him on to act the 60's role of Samuel Pepys and, more recently, that of Clegg in "Last Of the Summer Wine". He also acted in radio plays, including Bill Naughton's Looking for Frankie on the BBC Home Service (1963). Some time after his mother died, Caine and his younger brother, Stanley, learned they had an elder half-brother named David.