
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.
27 directing credits · 24 acting credits
Directing · 27

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Omnibus
1967

Timewatch
1982

King Lear
1982

Alice in Wonderland
1966

Troilus & Cressida
1981

Othello
1981

Antony & Cleopatra
1981

The Taming of the Shrew
1980

Timon of Athens
1981

Pleasure at Her Majesty's
1976

Take a Girl Like You
1970

Whistle and I'll Come to You
1968
La Fanciulla Del West
1991

Le Nozze di Figaro
1998

Nabucco
2004

King Lear
1975

Long Day's Journey Into Night
1987
Dialogue in the Dark
1989
The Drinking Party
1965

The Mikado
2019

The Beggar's Opera
1983

Candide
1988

Così fan tutte - ROH
2020

Tamerlano
2002
The Saint Matthew Passion
1994

Prisoner of Consciousness
1986
Acting · 24

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

Timewatch
1982

Timeshift
2002

The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976

Ruby
1997

Tempo
1961
Acting
1987

Discovering Hamlet
2011

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
2004

Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
2002

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002

States of Mind
1983

The Atheism Tapes
2004

The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010

One Way Pendulum
1965
Ghosts in the Machine
2009
The Body in Question
1978

Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
1995

Beyond the Fringe
1964

The Evacuees
1969

The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
1987
The Zoo in Winter
1969

West Side Stories
1971