Jonathan Miller
Directing
Born: 1934-07-21 in 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
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Timewatch
Self - Narrator (voice)
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Self - Host
The South Bank Show
Timeshift
Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
Timeshift
self
Beyond the Fringe
Various Characters
One Way Pendulum
Kirby
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
The Body in Question
Discovering Hamlet
Self
The Atheism Tapes
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Self
The Zoo in Winter
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self
Ruby
Self
Tempo
Self
Parkinson
Self - Guest (archive footage)
Parkinson
Self - Guest
West Side Stories
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
Self
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
Self
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
The Evacuees
Self
Acting
States of Mind
Self - Presenter