‘The Graduate’ Director Mike Nichols Passes Away - video Dailymotion

Mike Nichols, the man who kickstarted Kevin Spacey's acting career and director of "The Graduate", has passed away at the age of 83.

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00:00What would the world have been like without Mike Nichols?

00:03Did you think I'd forgotten?

00:05For starters, there'd be no Frank Underwood.

00:07He is single-handedly responsible for starting my film career.

00:11I played a mugger on the subway in Heartburn.

00:14I had orange hair.

00:15On the table, money, jewelry, anything you got that I want.

00:20Only a genius could have seen past that hair.

00:22And what about SNL?

00:23Mike Nichols and Elaine May.

00:26This is your mother.

00:27Do you remember me?

00:31The popularity of Nichols and May paved the way for Second City.

00:35And Second City helped build SNL.

00:38But most importantly, there'd be no graduate.

00:41Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me.

00:45Which means Wayne's World 2 would have never had its happy ending.

00:48Oh, Jesus. God, no.

00:53Mike Nichols, you'll be deeply missed.