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Mike Nichols

Comedian + Writer + Closer

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Born Nov 6, 1931

Age 81

Hometown Berlin

Other Names Michael Igorevitc...

Ethnicity German-Russian-Je...

Mike Nichols is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, producer and comedian. He began his career in the 1950s as one half of the comedy duo Nichols and May, along with Elaine May. In 1968 he won the Academy Award for Best… Read More

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Diane Sawyer
Married 1988 - Present
Margo Callas

Married
Elaine May
Dated
Pat Scott

Married
Anabel Davis-Goff

Married
Gloria Steinem
Dated

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Roger Wright: A Bernie Sahlins Tribute Scene
Huffington Post - 1 day ago

' Bernie Sahlins put two wooden chairs on a stage inside what used to be a laundromat on North Wells Street in Chicago, turned on a spotlight, and along with partners Paul Sills and Howard Alk, made what happened next a force in American cultural history. Sahlins, Sills and Alk were the founders of "The Second City." The improvisational comedy troupe, theater, and training ground for generations of superstars and perhaps most important, a way of thinking about making the world laugh....
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Keith Runyon: When Robert Kennedy Stirred The Nation
Huffington Post - Jun 03, 2013

' "In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire." So wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in 1884, remembering the powerful experience of going to war at the age of twenty, and fighting in the first Battle of Bull Run, the beginning of the Civil War. For the youth of 1968, the very real peril of war was not in the hills of northern Virginia, but far away in the rice paddies of Vietnam, where America''s involvement in a civil war was costly, in terms of lives as well as nationa...
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Elizabeth Sobieski: On And Off The Canvas
Huffington Post - May 03, 2013

' A woman lies in bed, legs akimbo, worrying a toenail; bars of light illuminate her nakedness, while a boy of 10 or 12 stares at her sex and conceals a ladies purse behind his back. Bad Boy is both a pivotal painting by Eric Fischl and the title of his memoir, to be released by Crown in May. Fischl first came to prominence in the heady early 1980s with a series of artworks that seemed to depict suburban angst; voyeurism and subversion layered between the sheets of American dreams...
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Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Rafe Spall To Star In 'Betrayal' On Broadway Hollywood Reporter
Google News - Apr 05, 2013

' Hollywood Reporter Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Rafe Spall to Star in ''Betrayal'' on Broadway Hollywood Reporter Ten-time Tony Award winner Mike Nichols will direct the revival of Harold Pinter''s 1978 drama, being produced by Scott Rudin in a limited engagement this year. NEW YORK -- Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall will star on Broadway in Harold ... "Betrayal" on Broadway: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz in love triangleReuters Daniel Craig, Rache...
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CHILDHOOD

1931 Birth Born on November 6, 1931.

1938 6 Years Old In April 1938, when the Nazis were arresting Jews in Berlin, seven-year-old Michael and his three-year-old brother Robert were sent alone to United States to meet up with their father, who had fled months earlier. … Read More

TEENAGE

1944 12 Years Old Mike Nichols became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944 and attended public elementary school in Manhattan (PS 87). … Read More

1950 18 Years Old In 1950, he enrolled in the pre-med program at the University of Chicago. … Read More

TWENTIES

1954 - 1955 2 More Events

1957 25 Years Old Nichols has been married four times. His first wife was Patricia Scott; they were married from 1957 to 1960.

1958 26 Years Old Nichols moved back to Chicago to perform comedy with Compass and starting doing improvisational routines with Elaine May, which led to the formation of the comedy duo Nichols and May in 1958. They gradually gained popularity, appearing in nightclubs, and on radio. They released three best-selling records, made guest appearances on several television programs and won the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

1960 28 Years Old In 1960 Nichols and May opened the Broadway show An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May, directed by Arthur Penn. … Read More

THIRTIES

1963 31 Years Old 1 More Event

In 1963, Nichols was chosen to direct Neil Simon's Barefoot In The Park. … Read More

1964 32 Years Old After an off-Broadway production of Ann Jellicoe's The Knack, Nichols directed Murray Schisgal's play Luv in 1964. … Read More

1965 33 Years Old In 1965 he directed another play by Neil Simon, The Odd Couple. … Read More

1966 34 Years Old By 1966, Nichols was a star director and Time Magazine called him a superstar and "the most in-demand director in the American theatre." … Read More

1967 35 Years Old Nichols then returned to the Broadway stage with a revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes in 1967, which ran for 100 performances.

1968 36 Years Old 1 More Event

He then directed Neil Simon's Plaza Suite in 1968, earning him another Tony Award for Best Director.

1970 38 Years Old At the height of his success and fame, Mike Nichols next film was a big-budget adaptation of Joseph Heller's famous novel Catch-22, released in 1970.

1971 39 Years Old 1 More Event

Nichols then directed the controversial film Carnal Knowledge in 1971. … Read More

FORTIES

1973 - 1975 2 More Events

1976 44 Years Old 1 More Event

Nichols then returned to the stage with two moderately successful production in 1976. … Read More

1977 45 Years Old 1 More Event

In 1977 Nichols produced the original Broadway production of the hugely successful musical Annie, it ran for 2,377 performances in 1983. … Read More

1980 48 Years Old 1 More Event

They appeared together at President Jimmy Carter's inaugural gala and in a 1980 New Haven stage revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Swoosie Kurtz and James Naughton. … Read More

FIFTIES

1983 51 Years Old Nichols career seemed to rebound in 1983 with the film Silkwood, based on the life of whistleblower Karen Silkwood. … Read More

1984 52 Years Old 1 More Event

In 1984 Nichols directed the Broadway premiere of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. … Read More

1986 54 Years Old In 1986 Nichols directed the Broadway premiere of Andrew Bergman's Social Security. … Read More

1988 56 Years Old 2 More Events

In 1988 Nichols completed two feature films. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

2010 78 Years Old According to research done by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University, in 2010 for the PBS series Faces of America, Nichols' grandfather was a leading theorist on anarchism in the early 20th century and Nichols is related to Albert Einstein who was a cousin on his mother’s side. … Read More

2012 80 Years Old In 2012, Nichols won the Best Direction of a Play Tony Award for Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

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