Jonathan Miller
Directing
Born July 21, 1934 in 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
Così fan tutte - ROH
The Mikado
Discovering Hamlet
Self
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
La Clemenza di Tito
The Atheism Tapes
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Self - Host
Nabucco
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
Timeshift
Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
Tamerlano
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
Self
Le Nozze di Figaro
Ruby
Self
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Self
Candide
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
Self
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Mikado
Prisoner of Consciousness
States of Mind
Self - Presenter
The Beggar's Opera
Timewatch
Self - Narrator (voice)
King Lear
Troilus & Cressida
Othello
Antony & Cleopatra
Timon of Athens
The Winter's Tale
The Taming of the Shrew
The BBC Television Shakespeare
The Body in Question
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self
King Lear
West Side Stories
Take a Girl Like You
The Evacuees
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Omnibus
Alice in Wonderland
BBC Play of the Month
One Way Pendulum
Kirby
Beyond the Fringe
Various Characters
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
Tempo
Self