Jonathan Miller

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-07-21 (85 years old)

Deathday

2019-11-27

Place of Birth

London, England

Jonathan Miller

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 ...

Production

1989

1991

2004

Nabucco

as Director

1981

1981

1966

1983

2002

Tamerlano

as Director

1982

King Lear

as Director

1970

1981

Timon of Athens

as Director

1975

King Lear

as Director

1966

1966

2015

The Mikado

as Director

1964

1988

Candide

as Director

2005

La Clemenza di Tito

as Stage Director

2020

1987

The Mikado

as Producer

1981

Othello

as Producer

1981

1969

1981

1998

1981

Othello

as Director

1965

1965

1965

1987

The Mikado

as Stage Director

1973

The Merchant of Venice

as Stage Director

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