Jonathan Miller

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller <a href="/facts/CBE/HlY9buuN">CBE</a> (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English <a href="/facts/Theatre_director/FkptGJzw">theatre and opera director</a>, actor, author, television presenter, comedian and <a href="/facts/Physician/qJ3woFvG">physician</a>. After training in medicine and specialising in <a href="/facts/Neurology/TXYEMSYI">neurology</a> in the late 1950s, he came to prominence in the early 1960s in the comedy revue <a href="/facts/Beyond_the_Fringe/kzFQIECM">Beyond the Fringe</a> with <a href="/facts/Peter_Cook/f8nV3wra">Peter Cook</a>, <a href="/facts/Dudley_Moore/Q5UYhpBx">Dudley Moore</a> and <a href="/facts/Alan_Bennett/eAJ83UuR">Alan Bennett</a>.
Miller began directing operas in the 1970s. His 1982 production of a "<a href="/facts/American_Mafia/TsLbHSdA">Mafia</a>"-styled <a href="/facts/Rigoletto/DB1G89nl">Rigoletto</a> was set in 1950s <a href="/facts/Little_Italy,_Manhattan/0TFF8D3o">Little Italy, Manhattan</a>. In its early days, he was an associate director at the <a href="/facts/Royal_National_Theatre/UUVKxXLE">National Theatre</a>. He later ran the <a href="/facts/Old_Vic_Theatre/mNwWbUSD">Old Vic Theatre</a>. 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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