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.
Filmography (24 titles)
7.5MovieDiscovering Hamlet
Self · 2011
MovieThe Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010
Ghosts in the Machine
Himself · 2009
8.0ShowThe Atheism Tapes
2004
8.1ShowAtheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Self - Host · 2004
4.7MovieChristopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self · 2002
7.0ShowTimeshift
Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage) · 2002
MoviePeter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
Self · 2002
9.0ShowRuby
Self · 1997
8.0MovieSome Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Self · 1995
MovieThe English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
Self · 1987
Acting
1987
ShowStates of Mind
Self - Presenter · 1983
6.9ShowTimewatch
Self - Narrator (voice) · 1982
8.0ShowThe Body in Question
1978
5.0ShowThe Secret Policeman's Ball
Self · 1976
MovieWest Side Stories
1971
The Zoo in Winter
1969
MovieThe Evacuees
Self · 1969
6.8ShowThe Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 1968
6.0MovieOne Way Pendulum
Kirby · 1965
7.5MovieBeyond the Fringe
Various Characters · 1964
6.6ShowThe Merv Griffin Show
Self · 1962
8.0ShowTempo
Self · 1961