Name
Jonathan Miller
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1934-07-21
Deathday
2019-11-27 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England
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.
Known For
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Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even ...
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- 2009 Ghosts in the Machine as Himself
- 1971 West Side Stories
- 1995 Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook as Self
- 1965 One Way Pendulum as Kirby
- 2011 Discovering Hamlet as Self
- 2002 Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe as Self
- 1964 Beyond the Fringe as Various Characters
- 1987 The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado as Self
- 2010 The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
- 1969 The Zoo in Winter
- 2002 Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self
- 1969 The Evacuees as Self
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1976 The Secret Policeman's Ball ( 15 episodes ) as Self
- 1987 Acting ( 1 episode )
- 2002 Timeshift ( 1 episode ) as Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
- 1982 Timewatch ( 1 episode ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1983 States of Mind ( 15 episodes ) as Self - Presenter
- 2004 Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 1997 Ruby ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1978 The Body in Question ( 13 episodes )
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2002 Timeshift ( 1 episode ) as self
- 2004 The Atheism Tapes ( 6 episodes )
- 1961 Tempo ( 1 episode ) as Self
