Article Image

IPFS News Link • Transportation Security Agengy/TSA

My name is Michael Caine … actor changes name due to Isis

• The Guardian

His name is – now officially – Michael Caine.

The legendary British actor, born Maurice Micklewhite, has legally changed his name to the showbiz moniker he adopted in 1954 because of the rise in airport security checks prompted by Islamic State.

No more trouble at the airport … Michael Caine in The Italian Job. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Shutterstock

"An airport security guard would say, 'Hi, Michael Caine,' and suddenly I'd give him a passport with a different name on it," Caine said. "I could stand there for an hour. So I changed my name."

The 83-year-old began his acting career on the Sussex stage as Michael Scott. He was required to change his handle after moving to London, where another Michael Scott was already treading the boards. During a harried call to his agent he looked outside the telephone box and saw a poster for the Humphrey Bogart naval drama The Caine Mutiny.

"I was opposite the Odeon and I looked up, and my favourite actor is Humphrey Bogart, and there it was," Caine said.


PirateBox.info