Jonathan Miller

Directing·Jul 21, 1934·London, England

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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.

Film	Credit
Così fan tutte - ROH2020 · Director	Director
The Mikado2019 · Director	Director
Discovering Hamlet2011 · Self	Self
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge2010 · Actor	Actor
GGhosts in the Machine2009 · Himself	Himself
Nabucco2004 · Director	Director
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages2002 · Self	Self
Tamerlano2002 · Director	Director
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe2002 · Self	Self
Le Nozze di Figaro1998 · Director	Director
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook1995 · Self	Self
TThe Saint Matthew Passion1994 · Director	Director
LLa Fanciulla Del West1991 · Director	Director
DDialogue in the Dark1989 · Director	Director
Candide1988 · Director	Director
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado1987 · Self	Self
Long Day's Journey Into Night1987 · Director	Director
The Mikado1987 · Producer	Producer
Prisoner of Consciousness1986 · Director	Director
The Beggar's Opera1983 · Director	Director
King Lear1982 · Director	Director
Troilus & Cressida1981 · Director	Director
Othello1981 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
Antony & Cleopatra1981 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Timon of Athens1981 · Director	Director
The Winter's Tale1981 · Producer	Producer
The Taming of the Shrew1980 · Director	Director
Pleasure at Her Majesty's1976 · Director	Director
King Lear1975 · Director	Director
West Side Stories1971 · Actor	Actor
Take a Girl Like You1970 · Director	Director
TThe Zoo in Winter1969 · Actor, Writer	Actor, Writer
The Evacuees1969 · Self	Self
Whistle and I'll Come to You1968 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Alice in Wonderland1966 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
TThe Death of Socrates1966 · Writer, Producer, Director	Writer, Producer, Director
TThe Drinking Party1965 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
One Way Pendulum1965 · Kirby	Kirby
Beyond the Fringe1964 · Various Characters, Writer	Various Characters, Writer