An action movie will be played as a Guys Night Out.

The title of the movie will be announced a few days in advance.

 

For more information, contact Bob Turnage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London in 1933, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He left school at age 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).

 

 As of 2015, films in which Caine has starred have grossed over $7.4 billion worldwide. He is ranked the ninth highest grossing box office star.

 

He won two Academy Awards, both times as Best Supporting Actor.  But he was unable to attend the ceremony of one, as he was filming Jaws 4 at the time. When asked, he admitted that Jaws 4 was a terrible movie and he has never watched it. But he said - see this nice multi-million beach house. Well, Jaws paid for it.

 

Caine is one of several actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting every decade from five consecutive decades (the other being Laurence Olivier and Meryl Streep). He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1992 Birthday Honours, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2000 Birthday Honours in recognition for his contributions to the cinema.

 

He changed his legal name from Micklewhite to Michael Caine in 2013, tired of explaining things to airport security.

 

 

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Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a two-year hitch in the army after graduating in 1953. He began attending The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre In New York City on the G.I. Bill in 1955, along with Dustin Hoffman, with whom Duvall shared an apartment. Both were close to another struggling young actor named Gene Hackman. 

 

It was Francis Ford Coppola, casting The Godfather (1972), who reunited Duvall with Brando and Caan and provided him with his career breakthrough as mob lawyer "Tom Hagen". He was paid $36,000 for the role.

 

He received the first of his six Academy Award nominations for the role. 

 

He was also cast as Tom Hagen in Godfather 2. But he refused to play the role in Godfather 3, not able to get the salary he felt he deserved. He was semi-quoted as saying it was ok for Al Pacino to get twice his salary but not four times as much as him.

 

While both Caine and Duvall made many other movies after Secondhand Lions, it was the last movie for both where they were the stars versus supporting roles.

 

 

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Michael Caine is still alive but retired from Hollywood in 2023.

 

Robert Duvall is still alive and semi-retired, not having done a significant role in several years.