Jonathan Miller
Born: 1934-07-21 in London, England
Died: 2019-11-27
Known For: Directing
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
2020
- Così fan tutte - ROH ... (Director)
2019
- The Mikado ... (Director)
2011
- Discovering Hamlet as Self
2009
- Ghosts in the Machine as Himself
2005
- La Clemenza di Tito ... (Stage Director)
2004
- Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief as Self - Host
- The Atheism Tapes
- Nabucco ... (Director)
2002
- Timeshift as Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
- Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self
- Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe as Self
- Tamerlano ... (Director)
1998
- Le Nozze di Figaro ... (Director)
1997
- Ruby as Self
1995
1994
- The Saint Matthew Passion ... (Director)
1991
- La Fanciulla Del West ... (Director)
1989
- Dialogue in the Dark ... (Director)
1988
- Candide ... (Director)
1987
- Acting
- Long Day's Journey Into Night ... (Director)
- The Mikado ... (Producer)
- The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado as Self
1986
- Prisoner of Consciousness ... (Director)
1983
- States of Mind as Self - Presenter
- The Beggar's Opera ... (Director)
1981
- Othello ... (Producer)
- Antony & Cleopatra ... (Director)
- Troilus & Cressida ... (Director)
- Timon of Athens ... (Director)
- The Winter's Tale ... (Producer)
1980
- The Taming of the Shrew ... (Director)
1978
1976
- The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- Pleasure at Her Majesty's ... (Director)
1975
- King Lear ... (Director)
1971
1970
- Take a Girl Like You ... (Director)
1969
- The Evacuees as Self
- The Zoo in Winter
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Whistle and I'll Come to You ... (Producer)
1967
- Omnibus ... (Director)
1966
- Alice in Wonderland ... (Director)
1965
- BBC Play of the Month ... (Director)
- One Way Pendulum as Kirby
- The Drinking Party ... (Writer)
1964
- Beyond the Fringe as Various Characters
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- Tempo as Self