Place of Birth: London, England
Jonathan Miller
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.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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Ghosts in the Machine | Himself | 2009 |
West Side Stories | 1971 | |
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook | Self | 1995 |
One Way Pendulum | Kirby | 1965 |
Discovering Hamlet | Self | 2011 |
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe | Self | 2002 |
Beyond the Fringe | Various Characters | 1964 |
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado | Self | 1987 |
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge | 2010 | |
The Zoo in Winter | 1969 | |
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages | Self | 2002 | Series | Cast | Year |
The Merv Griffin Show | Self | 1962 |
The Secret Policeman's Ball | Self | 1976 |
Acting | 1987 | |
Timeshift | Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage) | 2002 |
Timewatch | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1982 |
States of Mind | Self - Presenter | 1983 |
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief | Self - Host | 2004 |
Ruby | Self | 1997 |
The Body in Question | 1978 | |
The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | 1968 |
Timeshift | self | 2002 |