My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Scenes from the play's performance were featured in the April 1963 issue of Theatre World magazine. You see Mike's always quoting from the Guinness Book of Records. Levine whose Embassy Films was distributing Zulu.

In 2000 Caine was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to cinema. His most notable roles in the 1970s included Get Carter (1971) The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and A Bridge Too Far (1978). He achieved critical success in the 1980s with Educating Rita (1983) earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.