Jonathan Miller
Known For
Directing
Born
1934-07-21 in London, England
Died
2019-11-27
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.
Most Known For
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
Timeshift
as Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
Timeshift
as self
Timewatch
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self
Ruby
as Self
Tempo
as Self
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
as Self - Host
Acting
States of Mind
as Self - Presenter
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
as Self
Discovering Hamlet
as Self
The Body in Question
Beyond the Fringe
as Various Characters
One Way Pendulum
as Kirby
The Atheism Tapes
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
Ghosts in the Machine
as Himself