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Radio 4. My cousin My cast away this Christmas is Sir Michael Kane. He is of course a British

film legend appearing in more than a hundred pictures and winning two Oscars in a movie career that has so far spanned four decades

Alfie Zulu get Carter the Italian job educating Rita and Hannah and her sisters are just a handful of the films he's known for.

It is an extraordinary roster and all the more remarkable because when he was a child, it seemed

that working from dawn in Billingsgate Fish Market was the sum of what life had to offer.

Tell a cockney he's no good, he says, and he'll dedicate his life to proving otherwise.

Michael Kane, that quote suggests that you are somebody who will not be defeated.

Yeah, it was very funny because during a particular hard time of my life much later,

I heard the saying by Winston Churchill and it's been my motto ever

since and he said if you're going through hell keep going. Tell me about those first moments when you fell in love with cinema.

You went to the pictures when you were how old?

Yeah, I was three.

They took me to the Thrup New Rush, which is the cinema on Saturday morning of the Shrooms.

The first movie I ever saw, I remember very clearly, was The Lone Ranger.

I saw The Lone Ranger and I decided that's what I wanted to be. I didn't want to be an actor I didn't know

but I wanted to be the lone ranger. And then everything went dark and someone had

thrown an overcoat off the balcony it went over my head. I got that off.

We put our feet up to relax and the entire road went back because someone had taken the

screws out of the floor.

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