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Jonathan Miller
Also Known As: Sir Jonathan Miller, Dr. Jonathan Miller
Birth Date
July 21, 1934
Death Date
November 27, 2019
(passed away at 85)
Place of Birth
London, England
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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.
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The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962 • 2 episodes
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968 • 4 episodes
Timeshift
Self - BBC Breakfast Time, 1983 (archive footage)
2002 • 1 episode
Timewatch
Self - Narrator (voice)
1982 • 1 episode
Ruby
Self
1997 • 1 episode
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self
1976 • 15 episodes
Tempo
Self
1961 • 1 episode
Acting
1987 • 1 episode
Ghosts in the Machine
Himself
2009
Discovering Hamlet
Self
2011
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
Self - Host
2004 • 3 episodes
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
2002
States of Mind
Self - Presenter
1983 • 15 episodes
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010
The Atheism Tapes
2004 • 6 episodes
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
Self
2002
One Way Pendulum
Kirby
1965
The Body in Question
1978 • 13 episodes
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Self
1995
Beyond the Fringe
Various Characters
1964