Zz Mike Nichols Dead At 83 Poem by Saiom Shriver

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Michael Igor Peschkowsky was born in Germany in 1931, and came to the United States in 1938 with his family to escape from Nazi Germany. He could speak 2 phrases: 'I don't speak English' and 'Please don't kiss me.' reported NPR.

From his comic genius with Elaine May and his blazing talent as a Broadway director with 6 Tony awards to his searing political commentary in Charlie Wilson's War, Silkwood, Primary Colors, Catch 22, The Day Of The Dolphin, Heartburn etc., Nichols was a blazing star.

Some of his filmography, Broadway shows, acting roles, and tv appearances:

Charlie Wilson's War (2007) (CIA funding of Mujahideen and Taliban in Afghanistan. Agency spending billions giving Afghan fighters shoulder fired missile launchers, which since then have been used to shoot down American planes)
Director

The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
Director book by John C Lilly, Navy researcher who went public about the Navy's causing dolphins to commit suicide and Navy training of dolphins as explosives carriers

Silkwood (1983)
Director, Producer

'The life of Karen Silkwood. Silkwood was a nuclear power whistleblower and a labor union activist who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. In real life, her death was vindicated in a victorious 1979 lawsuit, Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee, led by attorney Daniel Sheehan and other founding members of the Christic Institute.' Wikipedia

Heartburn (1986)
Producer, Director

based on Nora Ephron's book about being pregnant when her husband Carl Bernstein was having an affair. Bernstein and Woodward of the Washington Post and Naval Intelligence cooperated with Henry Kissinger and Mark Felt in setting up Richard Nixon for the Watergate burglary of which he was not aware at the time.

Catch 22 (1970)
Director
an antiwar film

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Director of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

The Graduate (1967)
Director
Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft

Barefoot In The Park 1963

Director of Broadway play by Neil Simon starring Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford

'Nichols won a record six Tony Awards for direction of a play. Those included 'Barefoot in the Park' in 1964 and 'The Odd Couple' in 1965, and Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' ' nydailynews.com

Closer (2004)
Director, Producer

What Planet Are You From? (2000)
Producer, Director

Primary Colors (1998)
Director, Producer

The Designated Mourner (1997)
Actor

The Birdcage (1996)
Producer, Director

Wolf (1994)
Director

The Remains of the Day (1993)
Producer

Regarding Henry (1991)
Producer, Director

Postcards From the Edge (1990)
Producer, Director

Working Girl (1988)
: Director

Biloxi Blues (1988)
Director

Annie (1981)
Director

Gilda Live (1980)
Director

The Longshot (1978)
Executive Producer

The Fortune (1975)
Producer, Director

Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Director, Producer



TELEVISION

The Wil Wheaton Project (2014)
Executive Producer

Wicked Tuna (2014)
Executive Producer

Wicked Tuna: North vs. South (2014)
Executive Producer

Inventing David Geffen (2013) Actor

34th Annual Kennedy Center Honors (2012) Presenter

TV Land Presents: The AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Morgan Freeman (2011)
Actor

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2010) Actor

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mike Nichols (2010) Actor

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty (2008) Actor

My Dad is Better Than Your Dad (2008) Executive Producer

Julia Roberts: American Cinematheque Tribute (2008) Actor

Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize Celebrating Steve Martin (2006) Actor

Whoopi: Back To Broadway - The 20th Anniversary (2005)
Producer, Acknowledgment

62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (2005) Actor

Angels in America (2004) Director

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Meryl Streep (2004)
Actor

26th Annual Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2004) Actor

Kennedy Center: Mark Twain Prize - Celebrating Whoopi Goldberg (2002) Actor

Wit (2001)
Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer

American Film Institute Salute to Harrison Ford (2000) Actor

Intimate Portrait: Diane Von Furstenberg (2000) Actor

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) 13th Annual Hall of Fame (1998) Actor

Catch-22 (1997) Actor

Inside the Actors Studio (1997)
: Interviewee

Nichols and May - Take Two (1996) Actor

Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light (1996) Actor

American Film Institute Salute to Jack Nicholson (1994) Actor

8th Annual American Comedy Awards (1994) Actor

Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time (1993) Actor

Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1992) Actor

Working Girl (1990)
Story By Richard Burton: In From the Cold (1990) Actor

Neil Simon: Not Just For Laughs (1989) Actor

Thorns (1988) Executive Producer

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary (1986)
Actor

39th Annual Tony Awards (1985) Actor

Family (1980) Executive Producer

Last Laugh at the 60's (1970) Actor

Jack Paar Special (1960) Actor

Jack Paar Presents (1960) Actor

Friends With Kids (2011) Executive Producer

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