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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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