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.

Known For

The Merv Griffin Show

The Dick Cavett Show

Timewatch

Timeshift

Timeshift

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Ruby

Tempo

All Movies (12)

• Discovering Hamlet2011 · as Self
• The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge2010
• Ghosts in the Machine2009 · as Himself
• Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages2002 · as Self
• Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe2002 · as Self
• Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook1995 · as Self
• The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado1987 · as Self
• West Side Stories1971
• The Zoo in Winter1969
• The Evacuees1969 · as Self
• One Way Pendulum1965 · as Kirby
• Beyond the Fringe1964 · as Various Characters

All TV Shows (13)

• The Atheism Tapes2004
• Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief2004 · as Self - Host
• Timeshift2002 · as Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
• Timeshift2002 · as self
• Ruby1997 · as Self
• Acting1987
• States of Mind1983 · as Self - Presenter
• Timewatch1982 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Body in Question1978
• The Secret Policeman's Ball1976 · as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• The Merv Griffin Show1962 · as Self
• Tempo1961 · as Self