Jonathan Miller

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.

Known For

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief

as Self - Host

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

Timewatch

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Beyond the Fringe

as Various Characters

Timeshift

as Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)

Timeshift

as self

One Way Pendulum

as Kirby

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

as Self

Discovering Hamlet

as Self