Mike Nichols, a nine-time Tony Award winner on Broadway and the Oscar-winning director of films such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "The Graduate" and "Carnal Knowledge," died on Wednesday at age 83, ABC News said.
No director ever moved between Broadway and Hollywood as easily as Nichols, and he was one of the few people to win Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy awards.
Nichols, whose career first blossomed with a comedy partnership with Elaine May in the late 1950s, was married to Diane Sawyer, former anchorwoman of ABC's "World News Tonight" broadcast. ABC News President James Goldston announced his death in a memo to news staff, saying Nichols "passed away suddenly on Wednesday evening."
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