Jonathan Miller
Directing
1934-07-21 · London, 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.
Filmography(25)
movieDiscovering Hamlet
as Self · 2011 · 7.5
movieThe Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
as · 2010 · 0.0
movieGhosts in the Machine
as Himself · 2009 · 0.0
tvThe Atheism Tapes
as · 2004 · 8.0
tvAtheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
as Self - Host · 2004 · 8.1
movieChristopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self · 2002 · 6.0
tvTimeshift
as Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage) · 2002 · 7.0
tvTimeshift
as self · 2002 · 7.0
moviePeter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
as Self · 2002 · 0.0
tvRuby
as Self · 1997 · 9.0
movieSome Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
as Self · 1995 · 8.0
movieThe English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
as Self · 1987 · 0.0
tvActing
as · 1987 · 0.0
tvStates of Mind
as Self - Presenter · 1983 · 0.0
tvTimewatch
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1982 · 6.9
tvThe Body in Question
as · 1978 · 8.0
tvThe Secret Policeman's Ball
as Self · 1976 · 5.0
movieWest Side Stories
as · 1971 · 0.0
movieThe Zoo in Winter
as · 1969 · 10.0
movieThe Evacuees
as Self · 1969 · 0.0
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest · 1968 · 6.8
movieOne Way Pendulum
as Kirby · 1965 · 6.0
movieBeyond the Fringe
as Various Characters · 1964 · 7.5
tvThe Merv Griffin Show
as Self · 1962 · 6.6