Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols

1931-11-06 Berlin, Germany 47 Credits

Biography

Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was a German-born American film and theatre director, producer, actor and comedian. He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres and an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their acting experience. Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe, The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in Chicago. He then teamed up with his improv par...

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Arthur Miller: Writer

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017

as Self (archive footage)

7.1
Acting

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which contin...

Mike Nichols: An American Master

Mike Nichols: An American Master

2016

as Self

6.3
Acting

With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director.

Becoming Mike Nichols

Becoming Mike Nichols

2016

as Himself

6.9
Acting

This intimate portrait of director, producer, and improvisational comedy icon Mike Nichols shows his final and historic interviews filmed just months ...

Everything Is Copy

Everything Is Copy

2015

as Self

7.4
Acting

A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.

Crescendo! The Power of Music

Crescendo! The Power of Music

2014

Executive Producer

7.2
Producing

Since its inception in Venezuela in 1976, the El Sistema youth orchestra program has transformed the lives of disadvantaged children worldwide by putt...

Inventing David Geffen

Inventing David Geffen

2012

as Self

7.6
Acting

Notoriously press and camera-shy, David Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this unflinching portrait of a complex and compelling man. His fa...

Friends with Kids

Friends with Kids

2012

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a coupl...

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fantastic Mr. Fox

2009

Thanks

7.8

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with t...

Charlie Wilson's War

Charlie Wilson's War

2007

Director

6.5
Directing

In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afgh...

The Madness of Boy George

The Madness of Boy George

2006

as Self

3.5
Acting

Documenting the days and weeks preceding Boy George's appearance in a New York courtroom in June 2006 for cocaine possession and his subsequent senten...

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

2006

as Self

2.0
Acting

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his pla...

Closer

Closer

2004

Director, Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

A love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Four strangers - with one thing in common: each other.

The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch

The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch

2003

as Self - Interviewee

5.6
Acting

Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash', famous artists, actors and musicians sp...

Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'

Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'

2001

as Self

6.0
Acting

The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the film, and the subtle power of its execution.

Wit

Wit

2001

Director, Teleplay, Executive Producer

7.3
Directing Producing Writing

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

What Planet Are You From?

What Planet Are You From?

2000

Director, Producer

5.5
Directing Producing

A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their...

Primary Colors

Primary Colors

1998

Director, Producer

6.3
Directing Producing

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to ...

The Designated Mourner

The Designated Mourner

1997

as Jack

5.8
Acting

Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story ...

The Designated Mourner

The Designated Mourner

1997

Producer

5.8
Producing

Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story ...

Nichols and May: Take Two

Nichols and May: Take Two

1996

as Self (archive footage)

6.5
Acting

A documentary made for the PBS program American Masters about the comedy team Nichols and May.

The Birdcage

The Birdcage

1996

Director, Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club's flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic commu...

Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light

Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light

1996

as Self

Acting

Richard Avedon was one of the great geniuses of 20th century photography, famous for his fashion photography done for the likes of Vogue, Versace, and...

Wolf

Wolf

1994

Director

6.1
Directing

Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a ...

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

1993

Producer

7.4
Producing

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with...

Regarding Henry

Regarding Henry

1991

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

Respected lawyer Henry Turner survives a convenience-store shooting only to find he has lost his memory, and has serious speech and mobility issues. A...

Postcards from the Edge

Postcards from the Edge

1990

Director, Producer

6.6
Directing Producing

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continu...

Working Girl

Working Girl

1988

Director

6.6
Directing

Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg ski...

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

1988

as Self

6.0
Acting

Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.

Biloxi Blues

Biloxi Blues

1988

Director

6.3
Directing

Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends ...

Heartburn

Heartburn

1986

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reser...

The Longshot

The Longshot

1986

Executive Producer

4.7
Producing

Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

1986

as Self

6.7
Acting

Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of the Looney Tunes.

Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway

Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway

1985

Stage Director, Production Supervisor

6.3
Directing

Whoopi Goldberg in her original one-woman show.

Silkwood

Silkwood

1983

Director, Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possi...

The Gin Game

The Gin Game

1981

Stage Director

8.0
Directing

Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any oth...

Gilda Live

Gilda Live

1980

Director

6.0
Directing

Gilda Radner is recorded during a live comedy concert. Radner's classic characters are seen in sketches that are sometimes more risque than when they ...

The Fortune

The Fortune

1975

Director, Producer

5.3
Directing Producing

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

The Day of the Dolphin

The Day of the Dolphin

1973

Director

5.8
Directing

Dr. Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand ...

Carnal Knowledge

Carnal Knowledge

1971

Director, Producer

6.6
Directing Producing

Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.

Catch-22

Catch-22

1970

Director

6.7
Directing

A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a craz...

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970

as Self (archive footage)

7.1
Acting

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activi...

The Graduate

The Graduate

1967

Director

7.6
Directing

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Bach to Bach

Bach to Bach

1967

as Man

Acting

A Bach recording plays in a New York apartment, while off-screen a man and a woman in bed together for the first time engage in pseudo-intellectual co...

Bach to Bach

Bach to Bach

1967

Writer

Writing

A Bach recording plays in a New York apartment, while off-screen a man and a woman in bed together for the first time engage in pseudo-intellectual co...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1966

Director

7.7
Directing

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the ...

Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall

Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall

1962

Writer

8.0
Writing

Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall is an American musical comedy television showcase starring Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, broadcast on CBS on June ...

The Fabulous Fifties

The Fabulous Fifties

1960

as Self

6.0
Acting

The Fabulous Fifties, CBS, combines style, humor, and imagination. It was rich in touches of quality showmanship and equally rich in the memories of a...