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Jonathan Miller
Director, Producer, Actor, Writer, Editor, Additional Credits
Died November 27, 2019 (85 years)
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.
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
| 2019 | Oliver Sacks: His Own Life · as Self |
| 2013 | MR James: Ghost Writer · as Self - Director |
| 2012 | Shakespeare Uncovered (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet · as Self |
| 2010 | In Confidence (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Atheism Tapes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 2003 | Imagine... (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | This Week (2003) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | |
| 2002 | Timeshift (TV Series) · as Self - Bbc Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive Footage) |
| 2002 | The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau · as Self |
| 2001 | Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love · as Self |
| 1997 | HARDtalk (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | Life and Times (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | |
| 1992 | Heroes of Comedy (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1986 | Equinox (TV Series) · as Self - Presenter |
| 1982 | Timewatch (TV Series) · as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1982 | Wogan (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Arena (1975) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1971 | Parkinson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1965 | Call My Bluff (1996) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1964 | Horizon (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self - Humorist |
| 1958 | Monitor (TV Series) · as Self - Presenter |
| 1955 | Camera Three (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1950 | What's My Line? (TV Series) · as Self - Mystery Guest |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) · as Self - Scene From 'beyond The Fringe' |