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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.
Most Popular Jonathan Miller Trailers
Total trailers found: 39
12 January 2002
TV documentary tracing the life of the comedian and satirist from his school days, through the Cambridge Footlights, to Beyond the Fringe and his partnership with Dudley Moore.
04 June 1989
A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor.
07 November 2002
Veteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, but beneath that elegant stage presence lies the restless heart of a risk-taker.
30 November 2010
Pioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman, murderer - Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian enigma.
01 January 2005
This is an effective staging, though the set looks medieval and the costumes are modern. It’s well paced, well played, well sung.
21 January 1965
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.
10 April 2020
Containing some of the most beautiful arias and attractive ensembles in all opera, Così fan tutte is packed with both pathos and humour.
27 October 2009
Documentary charting the history of the supernatural on British TV, revisiting classic ghost stories and controversial shows.
19 December 1995
A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook.
04 October 1981
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello.
08 May 1981
Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire.
01 November 2011
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life.
13 April 1987
Originally staged (with these actors) in 1986 at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater (appearing first on Showtime cable television in April 1987, and then for free on PBS stations' American Playhouse series in May 1988), 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' is Eugene O'Neill's award-winning and classic play about a day in the life of a dysfunctional family.
16 April 1981
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
23 October 1980
Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate.
16 December 1970
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads".
02 April 2002
Handel's 1724 opera Tamerlano followed the success of his previous year's Giulio Cesare with another colourful historical costume drama.
23 March 1975
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him.
19 September 1982
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
23 September 1969
Jonathan Miller visits the Regent's Park Zoo and gives his personal opinions on the animals and their enclosures.
02 October 1987
A chance to see director Jonathan Miller at work on his acclaimed staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic opera.
28 December 1966
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
03 February 1991
Live from La Scala Sunday 03 February 1991
01 June 2004
Live performance at Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, June 2004. Original stage production by Operhaus Zurich.
07 November 1981
The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel.
01 January 1983
A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
07 May 1968
A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
08 February 1981
The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies.
02 July 2019
ENO revival of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta as reimagined in a 1930s grand hotel settins
29 December 1976
The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at Her Majesty's pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London).
11 November 1998
The Met assembled a vocal dream team for Jonathan Miller’s stylish production of the eternal Mozart masterpiece: Renée Fleming as the Countess, Cecilia Bartoli as Susanna, and Bryn Terfel as Figaro.
31 August 1969
In a programme first broadcast in 1969, some of the four million people evacuated as children from British cities during the Second World War look back on their experiences.
01 January 1987
Jonathan Miller set his well-known production of The Mikado, staged for the English National Opera, in a British seaside resort of the 1920s.
14 November 1965
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love before the Don, through a series of questions, reaches a unifying conclusion.
14 August 1986
Jonathan Miller's acclaimed documentary on Clive Wearing - the man with the ten-minute memory.
12 December 1964
A TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1960) and in London (Fortune Theatre, May 1961) and Broadway (October 1962).
01 October 1988
Candide falls in love with the beautiful but materialistic Cunegonde. Her barron father doesn't approve of the affair so Candide wanders, meeting all the misfortunes along the way.
20 November 1971
Two impressions of New York - a city of dreams or nightmares. The Outsider: Jonathan Miller 'If you enter New York in the first place in a show business context every time you return you have to justify your existence in show business terms.
01 April 1994
Paul Goodwin conducts a specially assembled "Passion Band" performing on period instruments, who area
