Sir Jonathan Miller CBE
Appearing on TV discussionAfter Dark in 1988: "Alternative Medicine"
Born	Jonathan Wolfe Miller (1934-07-21)21 July 1934 St John's Wood, London, England
Died	27 November 2019(2019-11-27) (aged 85) London, England
Resting place	Highgate Cemetery
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge (MB BChir, 1959)
Occupations	Comedian physician theatre and opera director actor television presenter author
Spouse	Rachel Collet (m. 1956)
Children	3
Parents	Emanuel Miller (father) Betty Miller (née Spiro) (mother)

Sir Jonathan Wolfe MillerCBE (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019)^[1] was an Englishtheatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, comedian andphysician. After training in medicine and specialising inneurology in the late 1950s, he came to prominence in the early 1960s in the comedy revueBeyond the Fringe withPeter Cook,Dudley Moore andAlan Bennett. He popularized anatomy inThe Body in Question.

Miller began directing operas in the 1970s. His 1982 production of a "Mafia"-styledRigoletto was set in 1950sLittle Italy, Manhattan. In its early days, he was an associate director at theNational Theatre. He later ran theOld 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.

Miller grew up inSt John's Wood, London, in a well-connected Jewish family. His fatherEmanuel (1892–1970), who was ofLithuanian descent and suffered from severerheumatoid arthritis, was a military psychiatrist and subsequently a paediatric psychiatrist at Harley House. His mother,Betty Miller (née Spiro) (1910–1965), was a novelist and biographer who was originally fromCounty Cork, Ireland. Miller had an elder sister, Sarah (died 2006) who worked in television for many years and retained an involvement withJudaism that Miller, as anatheist, always eschewed. As a child Miller had astammer and wasattention-seeking, compensating for his stammer by speaking in foreign accents. He also developed an astonishing talent for mimicry, including chickens and steamtrains. The young Miller was assessed by severalchild psychiatrists, includingDonald Winnicott. He had many sessions, as a teenager with the psychiatrist Leopold Stein. Miller enjoyed the sessions and said that they "simply conversed about philosophy andHughlings Jackson's early neurological theories".^[2]

Miller moved between several different schools prior to attendingTaunton School,^[3] including for a time at theRudolf Steiner School Kings Langley (aWaldorf school) where he was taught by two ofIvy Compton-Burnett's sisters. He said of that time that he "never learnt anything at all".^[4][5] Miller concluded his secondary school education atSt Paul's School, London^[6] where he developed an early (and ultimately lifelong) interest in the biological sciences. While at St Paul's School at the age of 12, Miller met and became close friends withOliver Sacks and Sacks's best friend Eric Korn, friendships which remained crucial throughout the rest of their lives. In 1953, before leaving secondary school, he performed comedy several times on the BBC radio programmeUnder Twenty Parade.^[7] Miller studiednatural sciences andmedicine atSt John's College, Cambridge (MB BChir, 1959), where he was a member of theCambridge Apostles and one of cast’s threeGranta cartoonist, before going on to train atUniversity College Hospital in London.^{[citation needed]}

While studying medicine, Miller was involved in theCambridge Footlights, appearing in the revuesOut of the Blue (1954) andBetween the Lines (1955). Good reviews for these shows, and for Miller's performances in particular, led to his performing on a number of radio and television shows while continuing his studies; these included appearances onSaturday Night onthe Light,Tonight andSunday Night at the London Palladium. He qualified as a physician in 1959 and then worked as a hospitalhouse officer for two years, including at theCentral Middlesex Hospital ashouse physician forgastroenterologistFrancis Avery Jones.

Miller helped to write and produce the satiricalrevueBeyond the Fringe, which premiered at theEdinburgh Festival in August 1960. This launched, in addition to his own, the careers ofAlan Bennett,Peter Cook andDudley Moore. Miller quit the show shortly after its move from London toBroadway in 1962, and took over as editor and presenter of theBBC's arts programmeMonitor in 1965. TheMonitor appointment arose because Miller had approachedHuw Wheldon about taking up a place on the BBC's director training course. Wheldon assured him that he would "pick it up as he went along".^{[citation needed]}

Miller's first experience of directing a stage play was forJohn Osborne, whoseUnder Plain Cover he directed in 1962.^[8] In 1964, he directed the playThe Old Glory by the American poetRobert Lowell in New York City. It was the first play produced at theAmerican Place Theatre and starredFrank Langella,Roscoe Lee Brown, andLester Rawlins. The play won fiveObie Awards in 1965 including an award for "Best American Play" as well as awards for Langella, Brown and Rawlins.^{[9][10][11][12]}

He wrote, produced, and directedAlice in Wonderland (1966) for the BBC. He followed this withWhistle and I'll Come to You (1968), an adaptation ofM. R. James's 1904 ghost story'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' starringMichael Hordern. He produced aNational Theatre Company production ofThe Merchant of Venice starringLaurence Olivier. He later resigned as associate director.

Miller held a research fellowship in thehistory of medicine atUniversity College London from 1970 to 1973. In 1974, he also started directing and producing operas forKent Opera andGlyndebourne, followed by a new production ofThe Marriage of Figaro forEnglish National Opera in 1978. Miller's other turns as an opera director included productions ofRigoletto (in 1975 and 1982) and theoperettaThe Mikado (in 1987).

Miller drew upon his own experiences as a physician, writer and presenter of the BBC television seriesThe Body in Question (1978).^[13] The series was nominated for two 1979BAFTAs: Best Factual Television Series and Most Original Programme/Series and caused some controversy for showing the dissection of a cadaver. For a time, he was a vice-president of theCampaign for Homosexual Equality.^[14] In 1971, he defended multiracial immigration to the UK at length withEnoch Powell onThe Dick Cavett Show.^[15]

In 1980, Miller was persuaded to join the troubledBBC Television Shakespeare project (1978–85). He became a producer (1980–82) and directed six of the plays himself, beginning with a well-receivedTaming of the Shrew starringJohn Cleese. In the early 1980s, Miller was a popular and frequent guest onPBS'Dick Cavett Show.^{[citation needed]}

Miller wrote and presented the BBC television series, and accompanying book,States of Mind in 1983 and the same year directedRoger Daltrey as Macheath, the outlaw hero of the BBC's production ofJohn Gay's 1728ballad opera,The Beggar's Opera. He also became chair ofEdinburgh Festival Fringe board of directors.^{[citation needed]} In 1984, he studiedneuropsychology with Dr. Sandra Witelson atMcMaster University inHamilton, Ontario, Canada, before becoming aneuropsychology research fellow at theUniversity of Sussex the following year.^{[citation needed]}

In 1990, Miller wrote and presented a joint BBC/Canadian production titled,Born Talking: A Personal Inquiry into Language. The four-part series looked into the acquisition of language, and complexities surrounding language production, with a special focus on sign language used by deaf people. This interest was contemporaneous with his friend Oliver Sacks' immersion in, and writing/publishing a book about Deaf Culture and deaf people entitledSeeing Voices. Miller then wrote and presented the television seriesMadness (1991) andJonathan Miller on Reflection (1998). The five-partMadness series ran onPBS in 1991. It featured a brief history of madness and interviews with psychiatric researchers, clinical psychiatrists, and patients in therapy sessions. In 1992,Opera Omaha staged the United States premiere of theGioachino Rossini's 1819 operaErmione, directed by Miller.^{[citation needed]}

In 2002 Miller directed Cosi fan tutte at Rønne Theater (1813) in Rønne, Bornholm in Denmark. In 2004, Miller wrote and presented a television series onatheism entitledAtheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (more commonly referred to asJonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief) forBBC Four, exploring the roots of his own atheism and investigating the history of atheism in the world. Individual conversations, debates and discussions for the series that could not be included due to time constraints were aired in a six-part series entitledThe Atheism Tapes. He also appeared on a BBC Two programme in February 2004, calledWhat the World Thinks of God appearing from New York. The original three-part series aired onpublic television in the United States in 2007.^[16]

In 2007, Miller directedThe Cherry Orchard atThe Crucible, Sheffield, his first work on the British stage for 10 years. He also directedMonteverdi'sL'Orfeo in Manchester and Bristol, andDer Rosenkavalier in Tokyo and gave talks throughout Britain during 2007 calledAn Audience with Jonathan Miller in which he spoke about his life for an hour and then fielded questions from the audience. He also curated an exhibition on camouflage at theImperial War Museum. He appeared at theRoyal Society of the Arts in London discussing humour (4 July 2007) and at theBritish Library on religion (3 September 2007).^{[citation needed]}

In January 2009, after a break of 12 years, Miller returned to theEnglish National Opera to direct his own production ofLa bohème, notable for its 1930s setting. This same production ran at theCincinnati Opera in July 2010, also directed by Miller.

On 15 September 2010, Miller, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published inThe Guardian, stating their opposition toPope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.^[17] In April and May 2011, Miller directed Verdi'sLa traviata inVancouver, Canada,^[18] and in February and March 2012, Mozart'sCosì fan tutte inWashington, D.C.^[19]

On 25 November 2015, theUniversity of London awarded Miller an honorary degree in Literature.^[20]

Miller married Rachel Collet in 1956. They had two sons and a daughter.^[21] From 1961 to his death he lived onGloucester Crescent inCamden Town, north London.^[22] On 27 November 2019, Miller died at the age of 85, having been diagnosed withAlzheimer's in 2017.^[23][24] His ashes were interred on the eastern side ofHighgate Cemetery, opposite the grave ofKarl Marx, on 21 October 2022.^[25]

• Stevie Smith, a friend of his mother Betty Miller, "rather disloyally" included a thinly disguised and uncomplimentary version of the nine-year-old Miller, "precocious and brattish... constantly demanding attention", in her short story 'Beside the Seaside: A Holiday with Children' (1949).^[2]
• Private Eye (which had a falling-out with Miller^[26]) occasionally lampooned him under the name "Dr Jonathan", depicting him as aDr Johnson-like self-important man of learning.^[27]
• In the film for televisionNot Only But Always about the careers ofPeter Cook andDudley Moore,Jonathan Aris played Jonathan Miller as a young man; Aris reprised the role in the BBC Radio 4 playGood Evening (2008) by Roy Smiles.
• Along with the other members ofBeyond the Fringe, he is portrayed in the playPete and Dud: Come Again by Chris Bartlett andNick Awde.
• In the BBC Radio Four seriesThe Burkiss Way edition 35, broadcast on 2 April 1979, he was impersonated byNigel Rees in a fairly lengthy parody "The Blood Gushing All over the Screen in Question", in which the history of nasty diseases was traced and the style of Miller's presentation was sent up. It was written byAndrew Marshall andDavid Renwick.
• In the 1980s a puppet of Miller appeared frequently inSpitting Image sketches, most notably "Bernard Levin and Jonathan Miller Talk Bollocks".

• Special Tony Award (1963), with co-stars Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore, "for their brilliance which has shattered all the old concepts of comedy" in the musical revueBeyond the Fringe.
• Distinguished Supporter,Humanists UK.
• Honorary Associate,National Secular Society.^[28]
• Honorary Fellow,University College London.
• Honorary Fellow,Royal College of Art.
• Associate member,Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
• Honorary Fellow,St John's College, Cambridge (1982).
• Honorary Fellow,Royal College of Physicians (London andEdinburgh).
• HonoraryD.Phil.,University of Cambridge.
• Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE; 1983).
• Nomination: Best Director Tony Award (1986), for his revival ofO'Neill'sLong Day's Journey into Night.
• Knight Bachelor (2002), for services to music and the arts.
• Nominated artist of honour atBornholm thanks to his instruction in Rønne Theater (Opera Island Bornholm; 2003).
• Foreign Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• President,Rationalist Association (2006–2019)^[29]
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Medical Journalists' Association (2012)

• Miller, Jonathan (1971).McLuhan.Fontana Modern Masters.
• Miller, Jonathan (1971).Censorship and the Limits of Personal Freedom. Oxford University Press.
• Miller, Jonathan (1972).Freud: The Man, His World and His Influence. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
• Miller, Jonathan (1974).The Uses of Pain (Conway memorial lecture). South Place Ethical Society.
• Miller, Jonathan (1978).The Body in Question. Jonathan Cape.
• Miller, Jonathan (1982).Darwin for Beginners. Writers and Readers Comic Book/2003 Pantheon Books (USA).ISBN 0-375-71458-8.
• Miller, Jonathan (1983).The Human Body. Viking Press. (1994 Jonathan Cape [pop-up book])
• Miller, Jonathan (1983).States of Mind. Conversations with Psychological Investigators. BBC /Random House.
• Miller, Jonathan (1984)."The Facts of Life".Canadian Medical Association Journal.94 (3). Jonathan Cape: 147.PMC 1935180.PMID 20328473. (pop-up book intended for children)
• Miller, Jonathan (1986).Subsequent Performances. Faber.
• Miller, Jonathan & John Durrant (1989).Laughing Matters: A Serious Look at Humour. Longman.
• Miller, Jonathan (1990).Acting in Opera. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. (The Applause Acting Series)
• Miller, Jonathan (1992).The Afterlife of Plays. San Diego State Univ Press. (University Research Lecture Series No. 5)
• Miller, Jonathan (1998).Dimensional Man. Jonathan Cape.
• Miller, Jonathan (1998).On Reflection. National Gallery Publications/Yale University Press (USA).ISBN 0-300-07713-0.
• Miller, Jonathan (1999).Nowhere in Particular. Mitchell Beazley.ISBN 978-1840001501. [collection of his photographs]

• Miller, Jonathan (1968).Harvey and the Circulation of Blood: A Collection of Contemporary Documents. Jackdaw Publications.
• Miller, Jonathan (1990).The Don Giovanni Book: Myths of Seduction and Betrayal. Faber.

• Miller, Jonathan;Alan Bennett;Peter Cook;Dudley Moore (1963).Beyond the Fringe. A Revue. Souvenir Press/Samuel French.
• Miller, Jonathan;Margaret Drabble;Richard Hoggart;Adrian Mitchell; et al. (1969).The Permissive Society. Panther.
• Miller, Jonathan; Alan Bennett; Peter Cook; Dudley Moore (1987).The Complete Beyond the Fringe. Methuen.ISBN 0-413-14670-7.
• Sokol, B. J., ed. (1993).The Undiscover'd Country: New Essays on Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare.Free Association Books.ISBN 1-85343-197-4. – Jonathan Miller: "King Lear in Rehearsal: A Talk" and seven other essays
• Jonathan Miller;Stephen Jay Gould;Daniel J Kevles;RC Lewontin;Oliver Sacks (1997). Silvers, Robert B. (ed.).Hidden Histories of Science. Granta Books.
• Silvers, Robert B., ed. (2000).Doing It : Five Performing Arts. New York Review of Books (USA).ISBN 0-940322-75-7.. Essays by Jonathan MillerGeoffrey O'Brien,Charles Rosen,Tom Stoppard andGarry Wills

• Lowell, Robert (1966).Old Glory, The: Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno. (directors note)
• Rothenstein, Julian (2000).The Paradox Box: Optical Illusions, Puzzling Pictures, Verbal Diversions. Redstons Press / Shambhala Publications (USA).
• Scotson, Linda (2000).Doran: Child of Courage. Macmillan.

• Bridge on the River Wye (1962 Parlophone LP; as American Announcer, American G.I., American Lieutenant, British Sergeant)

• Beyond the Fringe (1964), TV version.
• One Way Pendulum (1964)
• Sensitive Skin (as "Dr Cass", 2 episodes, 2005)^[30]

• Alice in Wonderland (1966; BBC television drama; Also writer and producer; Provides commentary track on DVD version)
• Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968; BBC television drama).
• Take a Girl Like You (1970, starringHayley Mills).
• BBC Television Shakespeare^[31] (1978–85):
  • The Taming of the Shrew (1980), starringJohn Cleese.
  • Timon of Athens (1981), starringJonathan Pryce.
  • Antony and Cleopatra (1981), starringColin Blakely.
  • Othello (1981), starringAnthony Hopkins andBob Hoskins.
  • Troilus and Cressida (1981).
  • King Lear (1982), starringMichael Hordern.
• The Beggar's Opera (1983; BBC television opera), starringRoger Daltrey andBob Hoskins.

• Monitor (1962; also editor).
• The Zoo in Winter (1969), BBC, directed byPatrick Garland.
• The Body in Question (1978–79), 13 episodes.
• Equinox - Prisoner of Consciousness (1986)
• Born Talking: A Personal Inquiry into Language (1990), 4 episodes.
• Madness (1991).
• Equinox - Moving Pictures (1991)
• Jonathan Miller's Opera Works (1997), 6 episodes.
• Jonathan Miller on Reflection (1998).
• Absolute Rubbish with Jonathan Miller (2004)
• Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004), 3 episodes.
• The Atheism Tapes (2004).

• In 1988 Miller made an extended appearance on the discussion programmeAfter Dark, describedhere.
• BBC.Great Composers of the World. Miller appears on the Puccini and Bach DVDs of this BBC series. In the Bach episode, he discusses his affection for the famous "Erbarme Dich" aria of theSt Matthew Passion.
• PBS.Vermeer: Master of Light. Miller appears in this one-hour program on the painter.

• Beyond the Fringe (performer, writer, producer;Edinburgh Festival; 1960).
• Beyond the Fringe (performer, writer;Fortune Theatre, London; 1961–62).
• Beyond the Fringe (performer, writer;John Golden Theatre. NYC; 27 October 1962 to 30 May 1964; 667 performances).^[32]

• St Matthew Passion (Director;St. George's Theatre, London, February 1994) withPaul Goodwin. A dramatised production ofJ. S. Bach's masterpiece, recorded for BBC Television. This production was also revived at London's National Theatre in September/October 2011 with Southbank Sinfonia, conducted by Paul Goodwin.

• The Old Glory (Director;American Place Theatre, 1964) starringFrank Langella,Roscoe Lee Brown, andLester Rawlins.
• The Merchant of Venice (Director;Cambridge Theatre, 1970) starringLaurence Olivier.
• Danton's Death (Director; 1972) starringChristopher Plummer.
• Long Day's Journey into Night (Director;Broadhurst Theatre, 28 April to 29 June 1986; 54 performances), starringJack Lemmon.
• Camera Obscura (Director;Almeida Theatre, 13 May to 8 June 2002;Theatre Royal, Bath, 11 to 15 June 2002;Theatre Royal, Winchester, 18 to 22 June 2002;The Oxford Playhouse 25 to 29 June 2002, starringPeter Eyre, andDiana Hardcastle.
• King Lear (Director;Vivian Beaumont Theater 4 March to 18 April 2004; 33 performances).
• The Cherry Orchard (Director;Crucible Theatre, 2007).

Over four decades, Miller has directed more than 50 operas in cities including London, New York, Florence, Milan, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Valencia and Tokyo.

• Così fan tutte (Stage director;Kent Opera, 1974). The first of seven operas Miller directed for Kent Opera.
• Rigoletto (Stage director; 1975). Set in the 19th century.
• The Cunning Little Vixen (Producer;Glyndebourne, 1975).
• Le nozze di Figaro (Stage director;English National Opera, 1978). A televised version was made in 1991.
• Rigoletto (Stage and video director; English National Opera, 1982). Set in 1950sLittle Italy, Manhattan.
• The Mikado (Stage and video director; English National Opera, 1987) starringEric Idle.
• La traviata (Stage director;Glimmerglass Opera, 1989).
• Kát'a Kabanová (Stage director and producer;Metropolitan Opera, 1991).
• La fanciulla del West (Stage and video director; 1991).
• Pelléas et Mélisande (Stage director and producer; Metropolitan Opera, 1995).
• Rodelinda (Stage director;Salomons Science Theatre,Tunbridge Wells, 1996).
• The Rake's Progress (Stage director and producer; Metropolitan Opera, 1997).
• Le nozze di Figaro (Stage director and producer; Metropolitan Opera, 1998).
• Die Zauberflöte (Stage and video director; 2000).
• Tamerlano (Stage and video director; 2001).
• Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Stage and video director; 2003).
• Falstaff (Stage director;New National Theatre Tokyo, 2004).
• Jenůfa (Stage director; Glimmerglass Opera withNew York City Opera inCooperstown, New York, 29 July to 29 August 2006).
• L'Elisir d'Amore (Stage director;New York City Opera, October 2007).
• L'Orfeo (Stage director;Manchester andBristol productions, 2007).
• Der Rosenkavalier (Stage director; New National Theatre Tokyo, 2007).
• La traviata (Stage director; Glimmerglass Opera, 2009).
• La bohème (Stage director; Cincinnati Opera, 2010).
• Pelléas et Mélisande (Stage director;Metropolitan Opera, 2005 and 2010).
• La traviata (Director;Vancouver Opera, 2011)).
• Miller's most recent opera productions in England wereCosi fan tutte andDon Pasquale at theRoyal Opera House (both revived in 2012) andLa bohème andL'elisir d'amore at theEnglish National Opera. His production ofRigoletto at the ENO is still being revived after 28 years and his production ofThe Mikado is about to return in its 25th year. His 1987 ENO production ofThe Barber of Seville has often been revived, most recently in 2017.

• Miller curated an exhibition on "Reflexion" (1998) at theNational Gallery and one on "Motion in Art and Photography" at theEstorick Gallery inIslington.
• Miller had three exhibitions of his own art work atFlowers East, theBoundary Gallery and at theKatz Gallery inBond Street, London.

• Las Meninas – considered by Miller in hisOn Reflection

• Bassett, Kate (2012).In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller. Bloomsbury Academic.ISBN 978-1-84943-451-5.
• Bergan, Ronald (1990).Beyond the Fringe...and Beyond: A Critical Biography of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore. Virgin Books.ISBN 1-85227-175-2.
• Carpenter, Humphrey (2000).That Was Satire, That Was: Beyond the Fringe, the Establishment Club, "Private Eye" and "That Was the Week That Was". Weidenfeld & Nicolson.ISBN 0-575-06588-5.
• Hewison, Robert (1983).Footlights! – A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy. Methuen.ISBN 0-413-51150-2.
• Miller, William (2018).Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-ups. London: Profile Books.ISBN 9781788160360. [A memoir by Miller's son.]
• Romain, Michael, ed. (1992).A Profile of Jonathan Miller. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-40953-5.
• Wilmut, Roger (1980).From Fringe to Flying Circus – Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980. Eyre Methuen.ISBN 0-413-46950-6.

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