
Jonathan Miller
- Date of Birth: 1934-07-21
- Date of Death: 2019-11-27
- Place of Birth: 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 an... 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.

The Zoo in Winter
• 1969 September

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Documentary • 2004 October

The Body in Question
Documentary • 1978 November

Beyond the Fringe
Comedy, TV Movie • 1964 December

Timeshift
Documentary • 2002 October

Discovering Hamlet
Documentary • 2011 November

Timeshift
Documentary • 2002 October

Timewatch
Documentary • 1982 September

The Dick Cavett Show
Talk • 1968 June

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Documentary • 2002 November