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Jonathan Miller

Jonathan Miller

Miller was a man of many talents. A qualified doctor who became a well known satirist in the 1960s. He was a theatre, film and opera director. An actor, an author, a photographer, a sculptor and a broadcaster.

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Movies Made By Jonathan Miller (28)

The Mikado (2019)

ENO revival of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta as reimagined in a 1930s grand hotel setting with Marx Brothers-inspired humour and Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers ...

Così fan tutte - Royal Opera House (2010)

Containing some of the most beautiful arias and attractive ensembles in all opera, Così fan tutte is packed with both pathos and humour. Mozart and Da Ponte's witty, compassionate examination of young love has ensured its lasting popularity. Jonathan Mil ...

La Clemenza di Tito (2005)

This is an effective staging, though the set looks medieval and the costumes are modern. It's well paced, well played, well sung. Jonas Kaufmann is an ideal Tito. His voice is not only beautiful and flexible, it's also ample, retaining warmth and sweetness ...

Nabucco (2004)

Live performance at Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, June 2004. Original stage production by Operhaus Zurich. DVD: Dynamic, live recording Cat: 33465. Nabucco (short for Nabucodonosor, English Nebuchadnezzar) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an ...

Tamerlano (2002)

Handel's 1724 opera Tamerlano followed the success of his previous year's Giulio Cesare with another colourful historical costume drama. This time the setting is the court of "Timur the Tartar", who has just defeated the Turkish Sultan Bajazet at the battl ...

Le Nozze di Figaro (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. With James Levine—one of the world's great conductors ...

La Fanciulla Del West (1991)

Live from La Scala Sunday 03 February 1991 ...

Dialogue in the Dark (1989)

Dialogue in the Dark (1989)

A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor. ...

Candide (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. ...

Long Day's Journey Into Night (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 ...

The Mikado (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. The result, complete with a chorus of gentlemen of Japan as cartoon-like British peers, emphatically underscores t ...

Prisoner of Consciousness (1986)

Jonathan Miller's acclaimed documentary on Clive Wearing - the man with the ten-minute memory. ...

The Beggar's Opera (1983)

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television. ...

King Lear (1982)

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one. ...

Troilus & Cressida (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. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for her dist ...

Othello (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. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice ...

Antony & Cleopatra (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. Antony, though married to Fulvia, spends his time in Egypt, living a life of decadence ...

Timon of Athens (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. ...

The Winter's Tale (1981)

The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Pe ...

The Taming of the Shrew (1980)

Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista declares that he won't give Bianca away in a marriage until he's found a husband for Kate, so all the suitors ...

Pleasure at Her Majesty's (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). This show came to be considered part of the Secret Policeman's Ball series o ...

King Lear (1975)

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns f ...

Take a Girl Like You (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". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a ...

The Zoo in Winter (1969)

The Zoo in Winter (1969)

Jonathan Miller visits the Regent's Park Zoo and gives his personal opinions on the animals and their enclosures. ...

Whistle and I'll Come to You (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 bea ...

Alice in Wonderland (1966)

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe. ...

The Drinking Party (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. ...

Beyond the Fringe (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). ...

Movies Starring Jonathan Miller (12)

Discovering Hamlet (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. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirel ...

The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge (2010)

Pioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman, murderer - Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian enigma. He was born and died in Kingston upon Thames, but did his most famous work in California - freezing time and starting it up again, so that for the fi ...

Ghosts in the Machine (2009)

Ghosts in the Machine (2009)

Documentary charting the history of the supernatural on British TV, revisiting classic ghost stories and controversial shows. Contributors include Derren Brown and Yvette Fielding. ...

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages (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. Don't miss this engaging biography. ...

Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe (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. With contributions from Cook's school friends Peter Rabey and Jonathan Harlow; ...

Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook (1995)

A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook. ...

The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado (1987)

A chance to see director Jonathan Miller at work on his acclaimed staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic opera. ...

West Side Stories (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. If you haven ...

The Zoo in Winter (1969)

The Zoo in Winter (1969)

Jonathan Miller visits the Regent's Park Zoo and gives his personal opinions on the animals and their enclosures. ...

The Evacuees (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. Amongst the contributors are Michael Aspel and Jonathan Miller. ...

One Way Pendulum (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. ...

Beyond the Fringe (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). ...

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