The Graduate
1967
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Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director and comedian. He worked across a range of genres and had an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience.
Jul 22, 2024 · Mike Nichols (born November 6, 1931, Berlin, Germany—died November 19, 2014, New York, New York, U.S.) was an American motion-picture, television, and stage director whose productions focus on the absurdities and horrors of modern life as revealed in personal relationships.
Feb 2, 2021 · “Mike Nichols: A Life,” by Mark Harris, is a star-studded biography of the famous director that brims with gossip, wisecracks and showbiz lore.
Feb 9, 2021 · Nichols was a director of great artistic ambition: His film debut starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the adaptation of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and his most...
Jan 26, 2021 · Mark Harris' masterful biography of Nichols, director of 'The Graduate' and much more, explores an artist who succeeded by having no fixed identity.
Feb 2, 2021 · “Gleaming . . . fortified with a wealth of interviews that make the acknowledgments a red carpet roll call (Candice Bergen, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep…), Mike Nichols: A Life is a midcentury fairy tale of right place-right time-right crowd . . . the rare large-scale biography without boring bits.” —James Wolcott, The New York Times ...
Feb 3, 2021 · For decades, Mike Nichols was one of the most recognized names in theater and film, but very few people really knew the legendary director — even, it seems, himself.
Apr 2, 2021 · Mike Nichols, the director behind a wide range of seminal stage productions and movies, from The Graduate to Working Girl to HBO’s Angels in America, was always a filmmaker I respected more than...
Nov 29, 2021 · Nov. 29, 2021. SHARE. Mark Harris’s enthralling, extensively researched biography of Mike Nichols follows the iconic director of films like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate...
Feb 1, 2022 · A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges—some of the worst largely unknown until...
