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(nĭkəlz), Mike Originally Michael Igor Peschkowsky. 1931-2014.
(nĭkəlz), Mike Originally Michael Igor Peschkowsky. 1931-2014. German-born American stage and film director whose credits include the films Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and The Graduate (1967), for which he won an Academy Award.