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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.
Filmography
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The Dick Cavett Show
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television netwo...
Timewatch
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning al...
Timeshift
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelli...
Timeshift
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelli...
The Secret Policeman's Ball
A series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human rights organisati...
Ruby
Ruby was a late-night talk show broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. The series premiered on 12 May 1997...
Tempo
A long-running ITV arts and culture series that aired from 1961 to 1968, Tempo was a landmark British televisio...
Acting
A series of workshops led by leading actors on the techniques of acting in film, opera, and on stage
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief – known in the United States as A Brief History of Disbelief – is a 2004...
Discovering Hamlet
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors wh...
States of Mind
Series of programmes about psychology, in which Jonathan Miller talks to eminent psychologists about their theo...
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Veteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, but beneath...
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
TV documentary tracing the life of the comedian and satirist from his school days, through the Cambridge Footli...
The Atheism Tapes
The Atheism Tapes is a 2004 BBC television documentary series presented by Jonathan Miller. The material that m...
The Body in Question
The Body in Question is a landmark British medical documentary series of 13 shows made for the BBC. It was a gr...
One Way Pendulum
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son tea...
The Evacuees
In a programme first broadcast in 1969, some of the four million people evacuated as children from British citi...
Beyond the Fringe
A TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1960) and in London (Fortun...
Ghosts in the Machine
Documentary charting the history of the supernatural on British TV, revisiting classic ghost stories and contro...
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook.
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
Pioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman, murderer - Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian enigma. He w...
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
A chance to see director Jonathan Miller at work on his acclaimed staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comi...
The Zoo in Winter
Jonathan Miller visits the Regent's Park Zoo and gives his personal opinions on the animals and their enclosure...
West Side Stories
Two impressions of New York - a city of dreams or nightmares. The Outsider: Jonathan Miller 'If you enter New Y...