Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols, born Igor Mikhail Peschkowsky in Berlin in 1931 into a Jewish family, Russian on his father's side and German on his mother's, arrived in New York at the age of seven knowing two sentences of English. He studied at the University of Chicago, formed a comedy duo with Elaine May, and became a stage director on Broadway, where he received six Tonys for directing, before moving to film at thirty-four. He directed nineteen feature films and is among the few winners of the four major American entertainment awards. He died in New York in 2014.

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• CinemaThe GraduateMike Nichols · 1967Cinema