"He'd been calling himself Michael Scott for a while, but since that name was already taken on the British actors' trade union's list he had to come up with a new name. And quick too, he was standing in a phone booth in Leicester Square with his agent waiting on the line! Years later, in an interview by Barry Norman, he recalled the moment: "I just looked through the trees, at the Odeon Leicester Square [Cinema], it just said Caine Mutiny. So, I just said Caine. If I'd gone to the Leicester Square Theatre, I'd have been called Michael A Hundred and One Dalmatians!"

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