Director
Jonathan Miller
Born July 21, 1934 in London, EnglandDied November 27, 201925 films
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.
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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
25 films as director- 2019The MikadoDirector
- 2010Così fan tutte - Royal Opera HouseDirector
- 2004NabuccoDirector
- 2002TamerlanoDirector
- 1998Le Nozze di FigaroDirector
- 1994The Saint Matthew PassionDirector
- 1991La Fanciulla Del WestDirector
- 1989Dialogue in the DarkDirector
- 1988CandideDirector
- 1987Long Day's Journey Into NightDirector
- 1986Prisoner of ConsciousnessDirector
- 1983The Beggar's OperaDirector
- 1982King LearDirector
- 1981Troilus & CressidaDirector
- 1981OthelloDirector
- 1981Antony & CleopatraDirector
- 1981Timon of AthensDirector
- 1980The Taming of the ShrewDirector
- 1976Pleasure at Her Majesty'sDirector
- 1975King LearDirector
- 1970Take a Girl Like YouDirector
- 1968Whistle and I'll Come to YouDirector
- 1966Alice in WonderlandDirector
- 1966The Death of SocratesDirector
- 1965The Drinking PartyDirector