Jonathan Miller
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 21, 1934
- Died
- November 27, 2019 (aged 85)
- Birthplace
- London, England
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
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Filmography
The Mikado
Movie · Director
Così fan tutte - Royal Opera House
Movie · Director
La Clemenza di Tito
Movie · Stage Director
Nabucco
Movie · Director
Tamerlano
Movie · Director
Le Nozze di Figaro
Movie · Director, Stage Director
The Saint Matthew Passion
Movie · Director
La Fanciulla Del West
Movie · Director
Dialogue in the Dark
Movie · Director
Candide
Movie · Director
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Movie · Director
The Mikado
Movie · Stage Director
Prisoner of Consciousness
Movie · Director
The Beggar's Opera
Movie · Director
King Lear
Movie · Director
Timewatch
TV · Director · 1 ep
Troilus & Cressida
Movie · Director
Antony & Cleopatra
Movie · Director
Timon of Athens
Movie · Director
Othello
Movie · Director
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie · Director
The BBC Television Shakespeare
TV · Director · 6 eps
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Movie · Director
King Lear
Movie · Director
Take a Girl Like You
Movie · Director
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Movie · Director
Omnibus
TV · Director · 1 ep
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · Director
The Death of Socrates
Movie · Director
The Drinking Party
Movie · Director
BBC Play of the Month
TV · Director · 1 ep