Jonathan Miller

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 Mafiastyled 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