Jonathan Miller

Known for DirectingBorn 1934-07-21Died 2019-11-27London, England

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.Read more

Movies & web series

La Fanciulla Del West

King Lear

The Zoo in Winter

The Winter's Tale

Ruby

Candide

Timon of Athens

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief

The Atheism Tapes

Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook

Troilus & Cressida

The Taming of the Shrew

The Body in Question

Discovering Hamlet

Tempo

The Mikado

Beyond the Fringe

Antony & Cleopatra

Timeshift

Omnibus

Pleasure at Her Majesty's

Timewatch

Long Day's Journey Into Night

The Dick Cavett Show

Othello

King Lear

Whistle and I'll Come to You

The Merv Griffin Show

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

The BBC Television Shakespeare

One Way Pendulum

Alice in Wonderland

Take a Girl Like You

The Beggar's Opera

BBC Play of the Month

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Così fan tutte - ROH

The Mikado

The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge

Ghosts in the Machine

La Clemenza di Tito

Nabucco

Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe

Tamerlano

Le Nozze di Figaro

The Saint Matthew Passion

Dialogue in the Dark

The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado