Jonathan Miller
Biography
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist and physician. After training in medicine and specialising in neurology in the late 1950s, he came to prominence in the early 1960s in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Miller began directing operas in the 1970s. His 1982 production of a "Mafia"-styled Rigoletto was set in 1950s Little Italy, Manhattan. In its early days, he was an associate director at the National Theatre. He later ran the Old Vic Theatre. As a writer and presenter of more than a dozen BBC documentaries, Miller became a television personality and public intellectual in Britain and the United States.
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Also Known As
Movies (38)
Così fan tutte - ROH
Director (Directing)
2020
The Mikado
Director (Directing)
2019
Discovering Hamlet
as Self
2011
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010
Ghosts in the Machine
as Himself
2009
La Clemenza di Tito
Stage Director (Directing)
2005
Nabucco
Director (Directing)
2004
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self
2002
Tamerlano
Director (Directing)
2002
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
as Self
2002
Le Nozze di Figaro
Director (Directing)
1998
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
as Self
1995
La Fanciulla Del West
Director (Directing)
1991
Dialogue in the Dark
Director (Directing)
1989
Candide
Director (Directing)
1988
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
as Self
1987
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Director (Directing)
1987
The Mikado
Producer (Production)
1987
Prisoner of Consciousness
Director (Directing)
1986
The Beggar's Opera
Director (Directing)
1983
King Lear
Director (Directing)
1982
Troilus & Cressida
Director (Directing)
1981
Othello
Producer (Production)
1981
Antony & Cleopatra
Director (Directing)
1981
Timon of Athens
Director (Directing)
1981
The Winter's Tale
Producer (Production)
1981
The Taming of the Shrew
Director (Directing)
1980
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Director (Directing)
1976
King Lear
Director (Directing)
1975
West Side Stories
1971
Take a Girl Like You
Director (Directing)
1970
The Zoo in Winter
1969
The Evacuees
as Self
1969
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Director (Directing)
1968
Alice in Wonderland
Director (Directing)
1966
The Drinking Party
Director (Directing)
1965
One Way Pendulum
as Kirby
1965
Beyond the Fringe
as Various Characters
1964
TV Shows (12)
The Atheism Tapes
2004
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
as Self - Host
2004
Timeshift
as Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
2002
Ruby
as Self
1997
Acting
1987
States of Mind
as Self - Presenter
1983
Timewatch
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982
The Body in Question
1978
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
1976
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
Omnibus
Director (Directing)
1967
BBC Play of the Month
Director (Directing)
1965