Mike Nichols, the legendary film and stage director whose work was celebrated both by Broadway and Hollywood, died on Wednesday at his home in New York. He was 83.
His death was announced by James Goldston, the president of ABC News, the network where Nichols’ wife, Diane Sawyer, is a prominent broadcaster. The network said Nichols died suddenly of cardiac arrest.
Nichols was a monstrous talent, one of only a dozen people in the history of showbusiness who had won a Tony, an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Grammy over the course of his protean career. Revered for his work on both stage and screen, he directed such Hollywood classics as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and the 1967 cult-hit “The Graduate” starring Dustin Hoffman, which won him an Oscar at the age of 36. Nichols went on to direct many more critical and commercial successes including, “Working Girl,” “Silkwood” and “The Birdcage.” He also amassed an astonishing 9 Tony awards for his work directing Broadway hits “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Odd Couple,” “Spamalot” and the recent revival of “Death of Salesman” starring Dustin Hoffman – which won him his final Tony at the age of 80.
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