Cast & creator
Jonathan Miller
Best known for The Merv Griffin Show, The Dick Cavett Show, The South Bank Show
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.
Also known as: Sir Jonathan Miller, Dr. Jonathan Miller
54
film credits
22
television credits
28
1961–2019 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (76)
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The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
The South Bank Show
1978
BBC Play of the Month
Director
1965
Omnibus
Director
1967Omnibus
Writer
1967
Parkinson
Self - Guest (archive footage)
2004Parkinson
Self - Guest
2004
Timewatch
Self - Narrator (voice)
1982Timewatch
Director
1982
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Director
1978
Timeshift
Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
2002Timeshift
self
2002
Ruby
Self
1997
Tempo
Self
1961
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self
1976Acting
1987
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Self - Host
2004
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
2002
Così fan tutte - Royal Opera House
Director
2010
The Mikado
Producer
1987The Mikado
Stage Director
1987
Othello
Producer
1981Othello
Director
1981
The Winter's Tale
Producer
1981
Take a Girl Like You
Director
1970
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Director
1976
Candide
Director
1988
The Mikado
Director
2019
The Beggar's Opera
Director
1983
States of Mind
Self - Presenter
1983
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Self
1995
King Lear
Director
1982
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
Self
2002
Tamerlano
Director
2002
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Director
1987
Discovering Hamlet
Self
2011
Timon of Athens
Director
1981
Le Nozze di Figaro
Director
1998Le Nozze di Figaro
Stage Director
1998
Alice in Wonderland
Director
1966Alice in Wonderland
Teleplay
1966Alice in Wonderland
Producer
1966Ghosts in the Machine
Himself
2009
The Taming of the Shrew
Director
1980
The Body in Question
1978The Body in Question
Creator
1978
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Producer
1968Whistle and I'll Come to You
Director
1968Whistle and I'll Come to You
Writer
1968
The Evacuees
Self
1969
One Way Pendulum
Kirby
1965The Death of Socrates
Writer
1966The Death of Socrates
Producer
1966The Death of Socrates
Director
1966
La Clemenza di Tito
Stage Director
2005
Troilus & Cressida
Director
1981
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
Self
1987
Antony & Cleopatra
Director
1981Antony & Cleopatra
Producer
1981
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010
La Fanciulla Del West
Director
1991
King Lear
Director
1975
West Side Stories
1971Dialogue in the Dark
Director
1989
The Atheism Tapes
2004The Drinking Party
Writer
1965The Drinking Party
Director
1965The Drinking Party
Producer
1965
Beyond the Fringe
Various Characters
1964Beyond the Fringe
Writer
1964The Saint Matthew Passion
Director
1994
Prisoner of Consciousness
Director
1986The Zoo in Winter
1969The Zoo in Winter
Writer
1969
Nabucco
Director
2004