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Mike Nichols - Early films: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , The Graduate , and Carnal Knowledge

Which actor played the emotionally empty chauvinist in Carnal Knowledge?

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Mike Nichols, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, stands smiling at a podium with a star-shaped award in front of him at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards. — Mike Nichols American director Mike Nichols in 2010. He was one of only a few people to have ever earned an EGOT, having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony over the course of his career.

In the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols, the role of the emotionally empty, predatory chauvinist was played by Jack Nicholson.1