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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.
Mike Nichols. Director: The Graduate. He, along with the other members of the "Compass Players" including Elaine May, Paul Sills, Byrne Piven, Joyce Hiller Piven and Edward Asner helped start the famed "Second City Improv" company.
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.
Mike Nichols. Director: The Graduate. He, along with the other members of the "Compass Players" including Elaine May, Paul Sills, Byrne Piven, Joyce Hiller Piven and Edward Asner helped start the famed "Second City Improv" company.
Nov 20, 2014 · NEW YORK (AP) — A legend of film, theater and comedy in nearly equal measure, Mike Nichols was an unquestioned fixture of smart, urbane American culture across a relentlessly versatile, six-decade career that on stage or screen, reliably coursed with crackling intelligence.
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...
Feb 6, 2021 · SIMON: His incisive powers of observation were sharpened by his experience as an outsider. The 8-year-old German boy who had to flee Nazism developed a rare allergic reaction that marked...
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. At least that's the...
Nov 29, 2021 · 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 from his painful...
Nov 20, 2014 · Mike Nichols, an award-winning director known for his versatility and genre-blending productions for film, TV and stage, died on Wednesday evening.
