He directed such landmark films as The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Carnal Knowledge, and Silkwood, as well as 22 Broadway plays, including the 2012 revival of Death of a Salesman, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. He was that rare thing-a success in entertainment for six decades, beginning in the late 1950s with the classic comedy albums he made with the brilliant Elaine May (which had first been developed into a Broadway stage show, An Evening with Nichols and May, directed by Arthur Penn), then becoming one of the leading theater and motion-picture directors of the second half of the last century. Mike Nichols, who died at home in New York last November 19, 13 days past his 83rd birthday, left a crater-size hole in the cultural landscape and in the life of the city he loved.
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