This Biography is about one of the best Director Mike Nichols including his Height, weight,Age & Other Detail…
Biography Of Mike Nichols | |
Real Name | Mike Nichols |
Profession | T V & Movie Producers, Theater Personalities, Directors |
Nick Name | Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky |
Famous as | Film Director, Theater Director, Film Producer |
Nationality | American |
Personal Life of Mike Nichols | |
Born on | 06 November 1931 |
Birthday | 6th November |
Died At Age | 83 |
Sun Sign | Scorpio |
Born in | Berlin, Germany |
Died on | 19 November 2014 |
Place of death | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Family Background of Mike Nichols | |
Father | Pavel Peschkowsky |
Mother | Brigitte (ne Landauer) |
Spouses/Partners | Patricia Scott (m. 1957-1960), Margot Callas (m. 1963-1974; 1 child), Annabel Davis-Goff (1975-1986; 2 children), Diane Sawyer (m. 1988-2014; his death) |
Personal Fact of Mike Nichols | |
Mike Nichols was a distinguished German-American theatre and film personality. Born in Germany and immigrated to the US as a kid, he started his career in the 1950s with an improvisational cabaret revue The Compass Players and later formed improvisational comedy duo Nichols and May with Elaine May. The comedy duo won Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album and with this Nichols became the first non-American comedian to win a Grammy. Three of their comedy albums were charted in the Billboard Top 40. Following disbandment of the duo, Nichols focussed into directing plays and in no time earned name as a master in his work extracting the best out of his performers, whether seasoned or new. Starting with Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, throughout his career he directed over 25 Broadway plays of which many were produced by him. His debut in film direction happened with Warner Brothers Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Over the years he delivered several spectacular and commercially successful films marked with versatility and insight. Some notable ones were The Graduate that earned him his sole Academy Award as Best Director; Silkwood; Working Girl; Carnal Knowledge; The Day of the Dolphin; Closer; and The Birdcage. His films fetched 42 Oscar nominations and bagged seven of them. He remains one of the two persons to have earned a PEGOT that is winning Peabody Awards, Emmy Awards (Four), Grammy Award, Oscar and Tony Award (nine). He also won three BAFTA awards. He was honored with National Medal of Arts in 2001 and AFI Life Achievement Award in 2010 among other honors. |
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