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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Michael Caine, Roy Porter, John Stevens Henslow, James Hopwood Jeans, Simon Furman, Norman Reid, Alan Cobham, George Barker Jeffery, Harry Golombek, Chris Cohen, Walter Robert Matthews, Harold Auten, Brian Colin Castle, Lewis Leigh Fermor, Ernest Partridge, Roger Lambart, 13th Earl of Cavan, Andrew Kazamia. Excerpt:Sir Alan John Cobham , KBE , AFC (6 May 1894 21 October 1973) was an English aviation pioneer. A member of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I , Alan Cobham became famous as a pioneer of long distance aviation. After the war he became a test pilot for the de Havilland aircraft company, and was the first pilot for the newly formed de Havilland Aeroplane Hire Service. In 1921 he made a 5,000 mile air tour of Europe , visiting 17 cities in 3 weeks. In 1928 he flew a Short Singapore flying boat around the continent of Africa landing only in British territory. In August 1926, he flew from Britain to Australia where 60,000 people swarmed across the grassy fields of Essendon Airport , Melbourne when he landed his DH.50 float plane (it had been converted to a wheeled undercarriage earlier, at Darwin ). He was knighted the same year. Cover which Sir Alan Cobham attempted to fly to New York from the RMS Homeric ( The Cooper Collections ) On 25 November 1926, Cobham attempted but failed to be the first person to deliver mail to New York City by air from the east, planning to fly mail from the White Star ocean liner RMS Homeric in a de Havilland DH.60 Moth floatplane when the ship was about 12 hours from New York harbour on a westbound crossing from Southampton. After the Moth was lowered from the ship, however, Cobham was unable to take off owing to rough water and had to be towed into port by the ship. In 1932 he started the National Aviation Day displays - a combination of... ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Michael Caine, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1440 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Russell Crowe, Michael Caine, Robert Redford, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Spacey, Spencer Tracy, Roberto Benigni, Burt Lancaster, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Walter Matthau, Bill Murray, Nigel Hawthorne, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Finch, Hugh Grant, John Hurt, Ben Kingsley, Bob Hoskins, Daniel Day-Lewis, William Hurt, Robert Downey, Jr., Geoffrey Rush, Mickey Rourke, Jack Nicholson, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Bafta Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Rylance, Haing S. Ngor, Robert Carlyle, Philippe Noiret, Jamie Bell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 412. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hugh John Grant (born 10 September 1960) is a British actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His movies have also earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent. In recent years, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), and American Dreamz (2006). He has been criticised by students of cinema for putting emphasis on nuanced mannerisms, for the predictability of his movies, and for his unwillingness to stretch as an actor. Within the film industry, he is cited as a anti-movie star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=170779 ... Read more

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Chapters: Michael Caine, George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, John Mayall, Basil Coad, Colin Campbell Mitchell, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Robert Leith-Macgregor, James Cassels, Mike Campbell-Lamerton, Robert Richardson, Peter de La Billière, Richard Trant, Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Philip Curtis, James Carne, George Cooper, Stephen Shoosmith, Bill Speakman, Douglas Kendrew, Ian V. Hogg, Terence Edward Waters, Elton Younger, Charles Huxtable, Rowland Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald, George Taylor, Derek Godfrey Kinne, Kenneth Muir, Donald Callander, Richard Vickers, Guy Gregson, Robert Holles, Gordon Lakes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Michael Caine, CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is an English film actor. Caine has appeared in over 100 films and is one of only two actors to have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting (leading or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s (Jack Nicholson being the other). He became known for several notable critically acclaimed performances, particularly in films such as Zulu (1964); The Ipcress File (1965) and others as Harry Palmer; the womanising title character in Alfie (1966); The Italian Job (1969); The Battle Of Britain (1969); Get Carter (1971); The Man Who Would Be King (1975); Educating Rita (1983); an Academy Awardwinning performance for supporting actor in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The Fourth Protocol (1987) and The Cider House Rules (1999); as Nigel Powers in the parody Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002); and more recently as Alfred Pennyworth, the butler from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Sir Michael Caine also played as the main protagonist in Harry Brown. Caine was knighted in 2000 by Queen Elizabeth II, in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=61479 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jack Lemmon, Michael Caine, Al Pacino, Alan Rickman, Dustin Hoffman, Albert Finney, Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rooney, Robert Duvall, Paul Giamatti, James Woods, Geoffrey Rush, James Garner, Raúl Juliá, James Franco, Stacy Keach, Brian Dennehy, Bill Nighy, Gary Sinise, Jim Broadbent, Stanley Tucci, Ted Danson, Randy Quaid, Ving Rhames, Beau Bridges, Richard Chamberlain, Anthony Andrews. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 258. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. He began his career appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small to supporting television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). He started to land much larger roles during the early 1970s with movies like MASH (1970) and THX 1138 (1971). This was followed by a series of critical successes: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Network (1976), The Great Santini (1979), Apocalypse Now (1979), and True Confessions (1981). Since then Duvall has remained an important presence in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies (1983), The Natural (1984), Colors (1988), Lonesome Dove (1989), Stalin (1992), The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996), The Apostle (1997), A Civil Action (1998), Gods and Generals (2003) and Broken Trail (2006). Duvall was born in San Diego, California, the son of Mildred Virginia (née Hart), an amateur actress and relative of American Civil War General Robert E. Lee, and William Howard Duvall, a Virginia-born U.S. Navy admiral. Duvall's father was a Methodist and his mother was a Christian Scientist, and Duvall was reared in the Chri...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=161266 ... Read more

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Chapters: Michael Caine, Adam Clayton, Mike Hailwood, Mark Wright, John Owen, Philip Beaver, Janet Husband, John Soane, David Nightingale Hicks, Julian Rose, Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Tom Penny, Julian Orchard, Jonty Hearnden, Charlie Walters, Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick, Michael Blount, Andrew Allam, Edmund Stonor, Richard de Courcy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood, MBE, GM (2 April 1940 23 March 1981) was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer regarded by many as one of the greatest racers of all time. He was known as "Mike The Bike" because of his natural riding ability. Later in his career he went on to compete in Formula One auto racing, becoming one of the few men to compete at the Grand Prix level on motorcycles and in auto racing. Mike Hailwood was born at Langsmeade House, Great Milton in Oxfordshire, His father, who also raced in the pre-World War II era, was a successful motorcycle dealer and as such, Hailwood had a comfortable upbringing. He learned to ride at a young age on a minibike as a small boy in a field near his home. He was educated at Pangbourne College, but left early and worked for a short time in the family business before his father sent him to work at Triumph motorcycles. He married Pauline Barbara Nash on 11 June 1975 and had a son and a daughter. Hailwood first raced on 22 April 1957, at Oulton Park. Barely 17, he finished in 11th place, but was soon posting successful results. In 1958, he teamed with Dan Shorey to win the Thruxton 500 endurance race. By 1961, Hailwood was racing for an up and coming Japanese factory named Honda. Riding a four-stroke, four-cylinder 250 cc Honda, Hailwood won the 1961 250cc world championship. In 1962, Hailwood signed with...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1226505 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ronald Reagan, Charlie Chaplin, Ian Mckellen, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Lee, Sidney Poitier, Patrick Stewart, David Jason, Rex Harrison, Nigel Hawthorne, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Norman Wisdom, Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Redgrave, Bob Hope, Derek Jacobi, John Mills, Squire Bancroft, Peter Ustinov, John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Ian Holm, Michael Hordern, Cedric Hardwicke, Roger Moore, Noël Coward, Alec Guinness, Richard Attenborough, Henry Lytton, Robert Helpmann, Henry Irving, C. Aubrey Smith, Seymour Hicks, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Donald Sinden, Antony Sher, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, Bernard Miles, Augustus Harris, Robert Stephens, Felix Aylmer, Lewis Casson, George Alexander, Brian Rix, Baron Rix, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Derwent Hall Caine, Charles Hawtrey, Donald Wolfit, Godfrey Tearle, Charles Wyndham, Gerald Du Maurier, Frank Benson, John Martin-Harvey, John Clements, Nigel Playfair, John Hare. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 589. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (19811989) and the 33rd Governor of California (19671975). Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s. He began a career as an actor, first in films and later television, appearing in 52 movie productions and gaining enough success to become a household name. Though largely a B film actor, some of his most notable roles are in Knute Rockne, All American and Kings Row. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25433 ... Read more

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Chapters: Michael Caine, Willie Rushton, Jon Pertwee, Max Newman, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Abbot, Charles Hatchett, Joan Greenwood, William Sidney, 1st Viscount de L'isle, James Gillray, Victor Crutchley, John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, John Amery, Ned Sherrin, Rachid Harkouk, Richard A. Proctor, Zena Dare, Phyllis Dare, Christopher Robin Milne, Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, James Herbert Veitch, William Guilfoyle, Edward Fox, Alexander Tilloch Galt, Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, Stanley James Woodbridge, Stephen Bicknell, Jade Jagger, Lee Harper, Stephen Gardiner, Marie Ney, Rony Stanyforth, Cosmo Crawley, Thomas James Young, Prunella Clough, John Kennard, Albert Clapp, Josias Priest, James Britten, Darren Annon, Michael Humphrey Dickens Whinney, George Harris (Cricketer, Born 1880), Lady Cynthia Colville, Charles Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell, Clive Loehnis, Pat Halcox, Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne, Mary Wondrausch, Ralph Knott, Arthur Veitch, William Brighty Rands, Richard Augustus Lefevre Blunt, Alan Caddy, J. C. Brandy, John Henry Blunt, Charles Edward Mallows, Hallam Tennyson, Patricia Lawrence, William Jones. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 231. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Michael Caine, CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is an English film actor. Caine has appeared in over 100 films and is one of only two actors to have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting (leading or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s (Jack Nicholson being the other). He became known for several notable critically acclaimed performances, particularly in films such as Zulu (1964); The Ipcress File (1965) and others as Harry Palmer; the womanising title character in Alfie (1966); The Italian Job (1969); The B...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=61479 ... Read more

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This play is a mystery drama for two males who play 5 roles underscoring the fact that nothing in the plot is really how it seems. A young man visits a famous mystery writer in the English countryside where a battle of wits and murder ensues. ... Read more