Mike Nichols is an Emmy Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Tony Award-winning film and stage director who is best known for having directed “The Graduate” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”.
While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, he began work in improvisational comedy with the Compass Players troupe (a precursor to The Second City), and later started the long-running “Midnight Special” folk music program on radio station WFMT. Notable films Nichols directed include “Primary Colors”, “The Birdcage”, “Wolf”, “Working Girl”, “Regarding Henry”, “Silkwood”, “The Remains of the Day”, and “Catch-22”.
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