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Robert Nichol is a Canadian cinematographer, director, and writer.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Wonderland | ||
| 1981 | A War Story | ||
| 1979 | Harrison's Yukon | ||
| 1976 | Mac's Mill | ||
| 1975 | ...and They Lived Happily Ever After | ||
| 1974 | Would I Ever Like to Work | ||
| 1971 | Pavilion | ||
| 1970 | Facade | ||
| November | |||
| 1968 | North | ||
| Wilf | |||
| 1967 | Fisherman's Fall | ||
| Reception | |||
| Sabre and Foil | |||
| The Buildings Already Begun | |||
| What in the World Is Water? | |||
| Wheat | |||
| 1966 | Better Housing for the Prairies | ||
| Bird of Passage | |||
| Change in the Maritimes | |||
| Illegal Abortion | |||
| Little White Crimes | |||
| The Changing Wheat Belt | |||
| The World of Three | |||
| 1965 | Autobiographical by A.M. Klein |
| Director | |||
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| Year | Film | Genre | Other notes |
| 1982 | Wonderland | ||
| 1976 | Mac's Mill | ||
| Striker | |||
| 1972 | That Gang of Hoodlums? | ||
| 1970 | November | ||
| 1968 | Wilf | ||
| 1967 | Fisherman's Fall | ||
| Wheat | |||
| Writer | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Genre | Other notes |
| 1982 | Wonderland | ||
| 1976 | Striker | ||
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The Graduate is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older married woman, Mrs. Robinson, but then falls for her daughter Elaine.
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Mike Nichols was an American film and theater director, producer, actor, and comedian. He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres and for his aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience. Nichols began his career in the 1950s with the comedy improvisational troupe The Compass Players, predecessor of The Second City, in Chicago. He then teamed up with his improv partner, Elaine May, to form the comedy duo Nichols and May. Their live improv act was a hit on Broadway, and each of their three albums was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album; their second album, An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May, won the award in 1960.
Nyota Uhura is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. In the original TV series, the character was portrayed by Nichelle Nichols who later reprised the role for the first six Star Trek feature films. A younger Uhura is portrayed by Celia Rose Gooding in the 2022 prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. An alternate timeline version of Uhura has been portrayed by actress Zoe Saldaña in the feature films Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Star Trek Beyond (2016).
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Terry Lynn Nichols is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted of being an accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing. Prior to his incarceration, he held a variety of short-term jobs, working as a farmer, grain elevator manager, real estate salesman, and ranch hand. He met his future co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, during a brief stint in the U.S. Army, which ended in 1989 when he requested a hardship discharge after less than one year of service. In 1994 and 1995, he conspired with McVeigh in the planning and preparation of the truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995. The bombing killed 168 people.
Elaine Iva May is an American comedian, film director, screenwriter, playwright, and actress. She made her initial impact in the 1950s with her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols, performing as Nichols and May.
Charles Augustus "Kid" Nichols was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the Boston Beaneaters, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies from 1890 to 1906. A switch hitter who threw right-handed, he was listed at 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and 175 pounds (79 kg). He is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The Rōshānī movement was a populist, nonsectarian Sufi movement that was founded in the mid-16th century and arose among Afghan tribes. The movement was founded by the Afghan or Pashtun warrior, poet, Sufi and revolutionary leader Bayazid Ansari, who is more commonly known as Pir Roshan. Bayazid challenged the inequality and social injustice that he saw being practiced by the ruling powers of the Mughal empire. He advocated for a system of egalitarian codes and tenets that his followers, the Roshaniyya, promulgated within Islam. Bayazid educated and instructed followers of the movement through new and radical teachings that questioned basic Islamic canons during that time, and propagated egalitarian principles. His teachings resonated among the Afridi, Orakzai, Khalil, Mohmand, and Bangash tribes of Afghanistan.
Stephen Lucid Robert McNichols was an American politician who served as Colorado's 35th Governor from 1957 to 1963.
Robert Lee Nichols is an American politician who represents the 3rd District of the Texas Senate. A Republican, he was the Senate President Pro Tempore of the 85th legislative session.
Nichols College is a private, non-profit business college located in Dudley, Massachusetts. Founded in 1815 as Nichols Academy, Nichols College offers both bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as certificate programs.
PRO-LAD is an analogue of LSD. It is described by Alexander Shulgin in the book TiHKAL. PRO-LAD is a psychedelic drug similar to LSD, and is around as potent as LSD itself with an active dose reported at between 100 and 200 micrograms.
Robert Nichols may refer to:
Major General Kenneth David Nichols, also known by Nick, was an officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He served as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. Nichols led both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.
Events from the year 1588 in Ireland.
Isaac Nichols was an English born Australian farmer, shipowner and public servant who was a convict transported to New South Wales on the Third Fleet, on the Admiral Barrington. He was transported for seven years in 1790 for stealing. He is most remembered as the first postmaster of the postal service now known as Australia Post.
John Harrison Nichols is a liberal / progressive American journalist and author. He is the National Affairs correspondent for The Nation and associate editor of The Capital Times. Books authored or co-authored by Nichols include The Genius of Impeachment and The Death and Life of American Journalism.
Robert Ivan Nichols, alias Joseph Newton Chandler III, was a formerly unidentified American identity thief who committed suicide in Eastlake, Ohio, in July 2002. After his death, investigators were unable to locate his family and discovered that he had stolen the identity of an eight-year-old boy who was killed in a car crash in Texas in 1945.
The New Champion is a 1925 American silent sports action film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring William Fairbanks, Edith Roberts and Lotus Thompson.