Jonathan Miller

July 21, 1934 — London, England

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.

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Alice in Wonderland

1966

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Whistle and I'll Come to You

1968

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Take a Girl Like You

1970

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Omnibus

1967

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Othello

1981

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Timewatch

1982

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The Taming of the Shrew

1980

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The BBC Television Shakespeare

1978