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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Discovering Hamlet
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2011
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
Character:
MOVIE • 2010
Ghosts in the Machine
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 2009
The Atheism Tapes
Character:
TV • 2004
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Character: Self - Host
TV • 2004
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2002
Timeshift
Character: Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
TV • 2002
Timeshift
Character: self
TV • 2002
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2002
Ruby
Character: Self
TV • 1997
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1995
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1987
Acting
Character:
TV • 1987
States of Mind
Character: Self - Presenter
TV • 1983
Timewatch
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
TV • 1982
The Body in Question
Character:
TV • 1978
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Character: Self
TV • 1976
West Side Stories
Character:
MOVIE • 1971
The Zoo in Winter
Character:
MOVIE • 1969
The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
TV • 1968
Crew
Crew Credits
Così fan tutte - ROH
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2020
The Mikado
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2019
La Clemenza di Tito
Role: Stage Director
MOVIE • 2005
Nabucco
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2004
Tamerlano
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2002
Le Nozze di Figaro
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1998
La Fanciulla Del West
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1991
Dialogue in the Dark
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1989
Candide
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1988
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1987
The Mikado
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 1987
The Mikado
Role: Stage Director
MOVIE • 1987
Prisoner of Consciousness
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1986
The Beggar's Opera
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1983
Timewatch
Role: Director
TV • 1982
King Lear
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1982
Troilus & Cressida
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1981
Othello
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 1981
Othello
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1981
Antony & Cleopatra
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1981