 When his career took him to London in 1954 after his provincial apprenticeship, his agent informed him that there was already a Michael White performing as an actor in London and that he had to come up with a new name immediately.Speaking to his agent from a telephone booth in Leicester Square, London, he looked around for inspiration, noted that "The Caine Mutiny" was being shown at the Odeon Cinema in 1954, and decided to change his name to "Michael Caine".He joked on television in 1987 that, had a tree partly been blocking his view a few feet to the left, he might have been called "Michael Mutiny".