Jonathan Miller | |
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 Appearing on TV discussion After Dark in 1988: "Alternative Medicine" | |
| Born | Jonathan Wolfe Miller 21 July 1934 St John's Wood, London, England |
| Died | 27 November 2019 (aged 85) London, England |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge (MB BChir, 1959) |
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| Spouse | Rachel Collet (m. 1956) |
| Children | 3 |
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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.