Jonathan Miller
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
Credits
- 2011 · Discovering Hamlet as Self
- 2010 · The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge as
- 2009 · Ghosts in the Machine as Himself
- 2004 · Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief as Self - Host
- 2002 · Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self
- 2002 · Timeshift as Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
- 2002 · Timeshift as self
- 2002 · Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe as Self
- 1997 · Ruby as Self
- 1995 · Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook as Self
- 1987 · The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado as Self
- 1987 · Acting as
- 1983 · States of Mind as Self - Presenter
- 1982 · Timewatch as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1978 · The Body in Question as
- 1976 · The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- 1971 · West Side Stories as
- 1969 · The Zoo in Winter as
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1965 · One Way Pendulum as Kirby
- 1964 · Beyond the Fringe as Various Characters
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self