Directing
Jonathan Miller
EN, IT, DE cinema · 40 credits
Born
21 July 1934
Died
27 November 2019 (aged 85)
Birthplace
London, England
Also known as Sir Jonathan Miller · Dr. 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.
Known for
Filmography
The Mikado
Director
La Clemenza di Tito
Stage Director
Nabucco
Director
Tamerlano
Director
Le Nozze di Figaro
Director, Stage Director
Candide
Director
The Mikado
Producer, Stage Director
The Beggar's Opera
Director
King Lear
Director
Troilus & Cressida
Director
Antony & Cleopatra
Director, Producer
Timon of Athens
Director
Othello
Producer, Director
The Winter's Tale
Producer
King Lear
Director
Take a Girl Like You
Director
The Zoo in Winter
1969
The Zoo in Winter
Actor, Writer
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Director, Producer, Writer
Alice in Wonderland
Director, Producer, Teleplay
The Death of Socrates
1966
The Death of Socrates
Writer, Producer, Director
One Way Pendulum
as Kirby
The Drinking Party
1965
The Drinking Party
Director, Writer, Producer
Beyond the Fringe
as Various Characters, Writer