Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE (21 July 1934 โ 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 ยทDiscovering Hamletas Self
- 2010 ยทThe Weird World of Eadweard Muybridgeas
- 2009 ยทGhosts in the Machineas Himself
- 2004 ยทAtheism: A Rough History of Disbeliefas Self - Host
- 2002 ยทChristopher Plummer: A Man For All Stagesas Self
- 2002 ยทTimeshiftas Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
- 2002 ยทTimeshiftas self
- 2002 ยทPeter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universeas Self
- 1997 ยทRubyas Self
- 1995 ยทSome Interesting Facts About Peter Cookas Self
- 1987 ยทThe English National Opera Rehearse The Mikadoas Self
- 1987 ยทActingas
- 1983 ยทStates of Mindas Self - Presenter
- 1982 ยทTimewatchas Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1978 ยทThe Body in Questionas
- 1976 ยทThe Secret Policeman's Ballas Self
- 1971 ยทWest Side Storiesas
- 1969 ยทThe Zoo in Winteras
- 1968 ยทThe Dick Cavett Showas Self - Guest
- 1965 ยทOne Way Pendulumas Kirby
- 1964 ยทBeyond the Fringeas Various Characters
- 1962 ยทThe Merv Griffin Showas Self