BIOGRAPHY OF - HOWARD CAINE - ACTOR
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BIOGRAPHY OF - HOWARD CAINE - ACTOR |
| At the age of thirteen Howard moved with his family from his home town of Nashville, Tennessee to New York City where he began studying acting. Learning to erase a Southern accent, he went on to became a master of 32 foreign and American dialects. After service in the Navy during WWII, Caine continued his studies at The School of Drama, Columbia University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. Howard was featured on Broadway in WONDERFUL TOWN, INHERIT THE WIND, LUNATICS & LOVERS and TIGER AT THE GATES. He replaced Ray Walston as "Mr. Applegate" the star of Broadway's DAMN YANKEES. Featured in FROM THE TERRACE, PAY OR DIE, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG, THE MAN FROM THE DINER'S CLUB, PRESSURE POINT and ALVAREZ KELLY, Howard co-starred with Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons in WATERMELON MAN. Mr. Caine played a featured role as "Lewis Morris" of New York in Jack Warner's Columbia Pictures production, "1776." He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. |
| Howard Caine acted in over 750
live and film TV shows. He is perhaps best remembered as "Major Hochstetter"
of the Gestapo on HOGAN'S
HEROES, a role he played for the six year run of the series.
He was featured as "Everett Scovill" (Irving Kanarek), Manson's attorney, on the CBS two-part TV Movie of the Week, HELTER SKELTER. Mr. Caine, always fascinated with the Appalachian five-string Banjo, began mastering it in the mid 1960s. Since the summer of 1970 until his untimely death in 1993, he had taken trophies at 29 prominent Banjo and Fiddle Contests in the Southland for both Best Traditional Banjo and Traditional Singing. He was also a popular "folk-singer" and appeared at a number of prominent Folk Clubs and Folk Festivals. |
| FESTIVALS:
San Diego Folk Festival; Sweets' Mill Folk Festival; 6th Golden West Bluegrass Festival; Julian Fiddlers' Convention; L.A. Garden Theatre Festival; Yosemite Folk Festival; UCLA Folk Festival; Harbor College Folk Festival. CONCERTS: Songmakers of California; U.S. International University; El Cerritos College; Grossmont College; Mesa College CLUBS: Folk Arts, San Diego; Orango's, San Diego; The Bluebird, Santa Barbara; Penny University Music Hall, San Bernardino; The Barn, UC Riverside; The Ice House, Pasadena; McCabe's, Santa Monica; The Other Side, Venice, California; The Relic House, Los Angeles; Mariposa Ranch, Mariposa, California. |
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