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.
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One Way Pendulum
as KirbyA study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room...
Movie pageChristopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as SelfVeteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand...
Movie pageDiscovering Hamlet
as SelfJourney into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors...
Movie pageThe Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
as uncreditedPioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman, murderer - Eadweard Muybridge was a...
Movie pageThe English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
as SelfA chance to see director Jonathan Miller at work on his acclaimed staging of Gilbert and...
Movie pagePeter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
as SelfTV documentary tracing the life of the comedian and satirist from his school days, through the...
Movie pageBeyond the Fringe
as Various CharactersA TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1960) and in...
Movie pageSome Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
as SelfA documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook. ...
Movie pageTimeshift
as Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its...
TV Show pageTimeshift
as selfDocumentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its...
TV Show pageTimewatch
as Self - Narrator (voice)Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical...
TV Show pageThe Merv Griffin Show
as SelfThe Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...
TV Show pageThe Dick Cavett Show
as Self - GuestThe Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...
TV Show pageThe Secret Policeman's Ball
as SelfA series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human...
TV Show pageAtheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
as Self - HostAtheism: A Rough History of Disbelief – known in the United States as A Brief History of...
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