People
Jonathan Miller
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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Discovering Hamlet as Self | 2011-11-01 |
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge | 2010-11-30 |
Ghosts in the Machine as Himself | 2009-10-27 |
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self | 2002-11-07 |
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe as Self | 2002-01-12 |
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook as Self | 1995-12-19 |
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado as Self | 1987-10-02 |
West Side Stories | 1971-11-20 |
The Zoo in Winter | 1969-09-23 |
One Way Pendulum as Kirby | 1965-01-21 |
Beyond the Fringe as Various Characters | 1964-12-12 |