Jonathan Miller
Director
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.
Filmography
Beyond the Fringe
as Various Characters 1964
One Way Pendulum
as Kirby 1965
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self 2002
Discovering Hamlet
as Self 2011
The Zoo in Winter
1969
Ghosts in the Machine
as Himself 2009
West Side Stories
1971
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
as Self 1995
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
as Self 2002
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
as Self 1987
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010