Jonathan Miller

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.

Directed

1. Alice in Wonderland (1966) — Director
2. Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968) — Director
3. Take a Girl Like You (1970) — Director
4. Othello (1981) — Director
5. Omnibus (1967) — Director
6. Timewatch (1982) — Director
7. BBC Play of the Month (1965) — Director
8. The Taming of the Shrew (1980) — Director
9. King Lear (1982) — Director
10. The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978) — Director
11. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987) — Director
12. Antony & Cleopatra (1981) — Director
13. Pleasure at Her Majesty's (1976) — Director
14. Troilus & Cressida (1981) — Director
15. The Beggar's Opera (1983) — Director
16. Timon of Athens (1981) — Director
17. La Fanciulla Del West (1991) — Director
18. King Lear (1975) — Director
19. Candide (1988) — Director
20. Dialogue in the Dark (1989) — Director
21. Tamerlano (2002) — Director
22. Nabucco (2004) — Director
23. The Mikado (2019) — Director
24. Prisoner of Consciousness (1986) — Director
25. Così fan tutte - ROH (2020) — Director
26. Le Nozze di Figaro (1998) — Director
27. The Drinking Party (1965) — Director
28. The Saint Matthew Passion (1994) — Director
29. The Death of Socrates (1966) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
2. The Merv Griffin Show (1962) — Self
3. Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004) — Self - Host
4. Timewatch (1982) — Self - Narrator (voice)
5. Timeshift (2002) — Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
6. Beyond the Fringe (1964) — Various Characters
7. One Way Pendulum (1965) — Kirby
8. Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages (2002) — Self
9. The Body in Question (1978)
10. Discovering Hamlet (2011) — Self
11. The Atheism Tapes (2004)
12. Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook (1995) — Self
13. The Zoo in Winter (1969)
14. The Secret Policeman's Ball (1976) — Self
15. Ruby (1997) — Self
16. Tempo (1961) — Self
17. Ghosts in the Machine (2009) — Himself
18. West Side Stories (1971)
19. Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe (2002) — Self
20. The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado (1987) — Self
21. The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge (2010)
22. The Evacuees (1969) — Self
23. Acting (1987)
24. States of Mind (1983) — Self - Presenter