This director and actor earned his Grammy in 1961 for Best Comedy Album, his Tony in 1964 as Best Director of a Play for “Barefoot in the Park,” his Oscar in 1967, and his Emmy in 2001. Born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin in 1931, this American director, producer, actor, and comedian began his career with the comedy improv group “The Compass Players” (predecessors of “The Second City” in Chicago), before teaming up with Elaine May to form a comedy duo and later directing his first film, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Mike Nichols