" Caine last won for his 1986 role in "Hannah and Her Sisters.

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What he really wants to do, he insists, is appear in a comedy, a wish thus far denied him on film unless one counts his performance as the dyspeptic painter Frederick in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986).

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His widow, Helen Farr, 42, said he "lived for their three daughters" - Jessica, now seven, and her sisters Emma, 11, and Hannah five.

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