Editing Jonathan Miller

{{Short description|English theatre director (1934–2019)}}
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{{Use British English|date=February 2017}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix  = [[Sir]]
| name              = Jonathan Miller
| honorific_suffix  = [[CBE]]
| image             = Jonathan Miller appearing on "After Dark", 3 September 1988.jpg
| caption           = Appearing on TV discussion ''[[After Dark (TV series)|After Dark]]'' in 1988: "[[After Dark (TV series)#Jonathan_Miller_and_"Alternative_Medicine"|Alternative Medicine]]"
| birth_name        = Jonathan Wolfe Miller
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|df=yes|1934|07|21}}
| birth_place       = [[St John's Wood]], London, England
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|2019|11|27|1934|07|21|df=yes}}
| death_place       = London, England
| resting_place     = [[Highgate Cemetery]]
| spouse            = Rachel Collet (m. 1956)
| children          = 3
| years_active      =
| website           =
| alma_mater        = [[St John's College, Cambridge]] ([[MB BChir]], 1959)
| occupation        = {{hlist|Comedian|[[physician]]|[[Theatre director|theatre and opera director]]|actor|television presenter|author}}
| father            = [[Emanuel Miller]]
| mother            = [[Betty Miller (author)|Betty Miller]] (née Spiro)
}}
'''Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller''' [[CBE]] (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English [[Theatre director|theatre and opera director]], actor, author, television presenter, comedian 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 "[[American Mafia|Mafia]]"-styled ''[[Rigoletto]]'' was set in 1950s [[Little Italy, Manhattan]]. In its early days, he was an associate director at the <!-- Did not acquire the 'Royal' tag until 1988. -->[[Royal National Theatre|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.

==Life and career==

=== Early life ===
Miller grew up in [[St John's Wood]], London, in a well-connected Jewish family. His father [[Emanuel Miller|Emanuel]] (1892–1970), who was of [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian]] descent and suffered from severe [[rheumatoid arthritis]], was a military psychiatrist and subsequently a paediatric psychiatrist at Harley House. His mother, [[Betty Miller (author)|Betty Miller]] (née Spiro) (1910–1965), was a novelist and biographer who was originally from [[County Cork]], Ireland. Miller had an elder sister, Sarah (died 2006) who worked in television for many years and retained an involvement with [[Judaism]] that Miller, as an [[atheist]], always eschewed. As a child Miller had a [[stammer]] and was [[attention-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 several [[child psychiatrist]]s, including [[Donald 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 and [[Hughlings Jackson]]'s early neurological theories".<ref name="truant"/>

Miller moved between several different schools prior to attending [[Taunton School]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bassett|first1=Kate|title=In Two Minds: a Biography of Jonathan Miller|date=2012|publisher=Oberon Books|page=336}}</ref> including for a time at the [[Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley]] (a [[Waldorf school]]) where he was taught by two of [[Ivy Compton-Burnett]]'s sisters and says of that time that he "never learnt anything at all".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Garland |first1=Nick |title=Johnathan Miller |url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-oldie/20200201/281586652498999 |access-date=30 April 2022 |work=The Oldie |agency=PressReader.com |date=1 Feb 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Jonathan |title=Not the brightest child at school |url=https://www.webofstories.com/play/jonathan.miller/7;jsessionid=C439F0518783A019A04791D22FAA1291 |website=Web of Stories |access-date=30 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Miller concluded his secondary school education at [[St Paul's School, London]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2045941.stm|title=BBC NEWS – Entertainment – Miller: Master of all trades|publisher=BBC|date=14 June 2002}}</ref> 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 with [[Oliver 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 programme  ''Under Twenty Parade''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilmut|first1=Roger|title=From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980|date=1980|publisher=Eyre Methuen|page=2}}</ref> Miller studied [[natural science]]s and medicine at [[St John's College, Cambridge]] ([[MB BChir]], 1959), where he was a member of the [[Cambridge Apostles]] and one of cast’s three [[Granta]] cartoonist, before going on to train at [[University College Hospital]] in London.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

While studying medicine, Miller was involved in <!--"the"?: the university drama society and--> the [[Cambridge Footlights]], appearing in the revues ''Out of the Blue'' (1954) and ''Between 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 on ''Saturday Night on [[BBC Light Programme|the Light]]'', ''[[Tonight (1957 TV series)|Tonight]]'' and ''[[Sunday Night at the London Palladium]]''. He qualified as a physician in 1959 and then worked as a hospital [[Foundation House Officer|house officer]] for two years, including at the [[Central Middlesex Hospital]] as [[house physician]] for [[gastroenterologist]] [[Francis Avery Jones]].

===1960s: ''Beyond the Fringe''===
[[File:Beyond the Fringe original cast.JPG|thumb|Miller (far right) in ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'' on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], with (from left) [[Dudley Moore]], [[Alan Bennett]] and [[Peter Cook]]]]
Miller helped to write and produce the satirical  [[revue]] ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'', which premiered at the [[Edinburgh Festival]] in August 1960. This launched, in addition to his own, the careers of [[Alan Bennett]], [[Peter Cook]] and [[Dudley Moore]]. Miller quit the show shortly after its move from London to [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] in 1962, and took over as editor and presenter of the [[BBC]]'s arts programme ''[[Monitor (arts programme)|Monitor]]'' in 1965. The ''Monitor'' appointment arose because Miller had approached [[Huw 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|date=January 2010}}

Miller's first experience of directing a stage play was for [[John Osborne]], whose ''[[Under Plain Cover]]'' he directed in 1962.<ref>Heilpern, John, ''John Osborne: A Patriot for Us'', 2007, Random House, pp.287.</ref> In 1964, he directed the play ''[[The Old Glory]]'' by the American poet [[Robert Lowell]] in New York City. It was the first play produced at the [[American Place Theatre]] and starred [[Frank Langella]], [[Roscoe Lee Brown]], and [[Lester Rawlins]]. The play won five [[Obie Awards]] in 1965 including an award for "Best American Play" as well as awards for Langella, Brown and Rawlins.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/154799-Robert-Lowells-Benito-Cereno-Begins-Off-Broadway-at-the-Flea-Sept-22|title=Robert Lowell's Benito Cereno Begins Off-Broadway at the Flea Sept. 22|work=Playbill}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://us.macmillan.com/theoldglory/RobertLowell|title=The Old Glory|author=Macmillan|work=Macmillan}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/index/1965/|title=New York News, Food, Culture and Events |work=The Village Voice}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanplacetheatre.org/history/brief|title=History in Brief // The American Place Theatre|publisher=americanplacetheatre.org|access-date=17 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817001323/http://www.americanplacetheatre.org/history/brief|archive-date=17 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He wrote, produced, and directed an adaptation for television of ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1966 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' (1966) for the BBC. He followed this with ''[[Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968 film)|Whistle and I'll Come to You]]'' (1968) starring [[Michael Hordern]], a television adaptation of [[M. R. James]]'s 1904 ghost story [['Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'|'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad']]. He produced a [[National Theatre Company]] production of ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' starring [[Laurence Olivier]]. He later resigned as associate director.

===1970s: Medical history and opera===
Miller held a research fellowship in the [[history of medicine]] at [[University College London]] from 1970 to 1973. In 1974, he also started directing and producing operas for [[Kent Opera]] and [[Glyndebourne Festival Opera|Glyndebourne]], followed by a new production of ''The Marriage of Figaro'' for [[English National Opera]] in 1978. Miller's other turns as an opera director included productions of ''[[Rigoletto]]'' (in 1975 and 1982) and the [[operetta]] ''[[The Mikado]]'' (in 1987).

Miller drew upon his own experiences as a physician, writer and presenter of the BBC television series ''[[The Body in Question]]'' (1978).<ref>Closing Credits</ref> The series was nominated for two 1979 [[BAFTA]]s: 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 the [[Campaign for Homosexual Equality]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Allan Horsfall and Ray Gosling |title=History of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality |url=http://www.gaymonitor.co.uk/chehistory2.htm |work=Gay Monitor |date=14 March 2006 |access-date=2 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207104030/http://www.gaymonitor.co.uk/chehistory2.htm |archive-date=7 December 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In 1971, he defended multiracial immigration to the UK at length with [[Enoch Powell]] on ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEPtyb9OHP8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/MEPtyb9OHP8| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Enoch Powell & Jonathan Miller Debate Issues Around UK Immigration &#124; The Dick Cavett Show|date=2 November 2020 |access-date=23 October 2021|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===1980s: Shakespeare and neuropsychology===
In 1980, Miller was persuaded to join the troubled ''[[BBC Television Shakespeare]]'' project (1978–85). He became a producer (1980–82) and directed six of the plays himself, beginning with a well-received ''[[Taming of the Shrew]]'' starring [[John Cleese]]. In the early 1980s, Miller was a popular and frequent guest on [[PBS]]' ''[[Dick Cavett Show]]''.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

Miller wrote and presented the BBC television series, and accompanying book, ''States of Mind'' in 1983 and the same year directed [[Roger Daltrey]] as Macheath, the outlaw hero of the BBC's production of [[John Gay]]'s 1728 [[ballad opera]], ''[[The Beggar's Opera]]''. He also became chair of [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] board of directors.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} In 1984, he studied [[neuropsychology]] with Dr. Sandra Witelson at [[McMaster University]] in [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], Ontario, Canada, before becoming a [[neuropsychology]] research fellow at the [[University of Sussex]] the following year.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

===1990s===
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 entitled ''[[Seeing Voices]].''  Miller then wrote and presented the television series ''Madness'' (1991) and ''Jonathan Miller on Reflection'' (1998). The five-part ''Madness'' series ran on [[PBS]] 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 the [[Gioachino Rossini]]'s 1819 opera ''[[Ermione]]'', directed by Miller.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

===2000s: Atheism and return to directing===
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 on [[atheism]] entitled ''[[Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief]]'' (more commonly referred to as ''Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief'') for [[BBC 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 entitled ''[[The Atheism Tapes]]''. He also appeared on a BBC Two programme in February 2004, called ''What the World Thinks of God'' appearing from New York. The original three-part series aired on [[public television]] in the United States in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2007/04/17/pbs-to-air-disbelief-series/ |title = PBS to air 'Disbelief' series|first= Sam|last= Hodges|website=The Dallas Morning News|date = 17 April 2007}}</ref>

In 2007, Miller directed ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' at [[Crucible Theatre|The Crucible, Sheffield]], his first work on the British stage for 10 years. He also directed [[Claudio Monteverdi|Monteverdi's]] ''[[L'Orfeo]]'' in Manchester and Bristol, and ''[[Der Rosenkavalier]]'' in Tokyo and gave talks throughout Britain during 2007 called ''An 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 the [[Imperial War Museum]]. He appeared at the [[Royal Society of the Arts]] in London discussing humour (4 July 2007) and at the [[British Library]] on religion (3 September 2007).{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

In January 2009, after a break of 12 years, Miller returned to the [[English National Opera]] to direct his own production of ''[[La bohème]]'', notable for its 1930s setting. This same production ran at the [[Cincinnati Opera]] in July 2010, also directed by Miller.

===2010s===
[[File:Miller, Jonathan 2019.jpg|thumb|150px|Grave of Jonathan Miller in [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]
On 15 September 2010, Miller, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in ''[[The Guardian]]'', stating their opposition to [[Pope Benedict XVI]]'s state visit to the UK.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/15/harsh-judgments-on-pope-religion|title=Letters: Harsh judgments on the pope and religion|work=The Guardian|access-date=16 September 2010 | location=London | date=15 September 2010}}</ref> In April and May 2011, Miller directed Verdi's ''[[La traviata]]'' in [[Vancouver]], Canada,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.straight.com/article-389232/vancouver/verdi-without-vulgarity| title=Jonathan Miller's version of La Traviata is Verdi without the vulgarity|access-date=30 April 2011 | location = Vancouver, Canada | date=28 April 2011}}</ref> and in February and March 2012, Mozart's ''[[Così fan tutte]]'' in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/02/28/opera-review-cosi-fan-tutte-at-the-kennedy-center/ |title=Opera Review: "Così fan tutte" at the Kennedy Center |newspaper=Washingtonian |date=25 February 2012  |author=Sudip Bose |access-date= 27 November 2019}}</ref>

On 25 November 2015, the [[University of London]] awarded Miller an honorary degree in Literature.<ref>{{cite web|title=University of London conferred highest honours to exceptional individuals|url=http://www.london.ac.uk/5758.html|publisher=University of London|access-date=30 November 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208162527/http://www.london.ac.uk/5758.html|archive-date=8 December 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

===Personal life===
Miller married Rachel Collet in 1956. They had two sons and a daughter.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/profile-jonathan-miller-whats-eating-the-doc-1570344.html|title= PROFILE : JONATHAN MILLER : What's eating the doc?|first=Geoffrey |last=Wheatcroft|newspaper= The Independent |date= 29 January 1995|access-date= 20 April 2019}}</ref> From 1961 to his death he lived on [[Gloucester Crescent]] in [[Camden Town]], north London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2013/01/jonathan-millers-life-happy-accidents|title=Jonathan Miller's life of happy accidents|work=New Statesman}}</ref> On 27 November 2019, Miller died at the age of 85, having been diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease|Alzheimer's]] in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50574472|title=Jonathan Miller, director and humorist, dies at 85|website=BBC News|date=2019-11-27|access-date=2019-11-27|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/jonathan-miller-tragedy-behind-tv-show-never-made/?msockid=21cfe551e92b62fc06a9f065e8326375 | title=Jonathan Miller: The tragedy behind the TV show he never made | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=10 August 2021 | last1=Miller | first1=William }}</ref> His ashes were interred on the eastern side of [[Highgate Cemetery]], opposite the grave of [[Karl Marx]], on 21 October 2022.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Jonathan |title=Highgate Cemetery |url=https://highgate.burialgrounds.co.uk/mapmanagement/#/memorialmanagement/1dc5735d-2aa8-4880-97be-c62ebf114487/gravestone/o/persons/6275a160-1166-427a-bbb5-d94eee01da35/de8e7934-97a4-47ea-ab1e-9e30f99daf39?tab=0 |website=Burial Grounds |access-date=2 December 2024}}</ref>

==Parodies and representations==
* [[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).<ref name="truant">{{Cite web |last=O'Mahon |first=Seamus |url=https://www.drb.ie/essays/guilty-truant |title = Guilty Truant |date=February 2013 |publisher=Dublin Review of Books |quote=“I was never kissed by either of my parents as a child, never embraced,” he told [[Anthony Clare]] when he appeared on ''[[In the Psychiatrist's Chair]].''}}</ref>
* ''[[Private Eye]]'' (which had a falling-out with Miller<ref>{{cite web |title=Private Eye tweet 27/11/2019 |url=https://twitter.com/PrivateEyeNews/status/1199685636892045312 |website=Private Eye |access-date=15 December 2019}}</ref>) occasionally lampooned him under the name "Dr Jonathan", depicting him as a [[Dr Johnson]]-like self-important man of learning.<ref>{{cite web |title=Private Eye tweet 27/11/2019 |url=https://twitter.com/PrivateEyeNews/status/1199685991218470912 |website=Private Eye |access-date=15 December 2019}}</ref>
* In the film for television ''[[Not Only But Always]]'' about the careers of [[Peter Cook]] and [[Dudley Moore]], [[Jonathan Aris]] played Jonathan Miller as a young man; Aris reprised the role in the BBC Radio 4 play ''Good Evening'' (2008) by Roy Smiles.
* Along with the other members of ''Beyond the Fringe'', he is portrayed in the play ''[[Pete and Dud: Come Again]]'' by Chris Bartlett and [[Nick Awde]].
* In the BBC Radio Four series ''[[The Burkiss Way]]'' edition 35, broadcast on 2 April 1979, he was impersonated by [[Nigel 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 by [[Andrew Marshall (screenwriter)|Andrew Marshall]] and [[David Renwick]].
* In the 1980s a puppet of Miller appeared frequently in ''[[Spitting Image]]'' sketches, most notably "[[Bernard Levin]] and Jonathan Miller Talk Bollocks".

==Honours and awards==
*[[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 revue ''Beyond the Fringe''.
*Distinguished Supporter, [[Humanists UK]].
*Honorary Associate, [[National Secular Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.secularism.org.uk/honoraryassociates.html|title=Honorary Associates|website=www.secularism.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref>
*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 and [[Edinburgh]]).
*Honorary [[D.Phil.]], [[University of Cambridge]].
*[[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE; 1983).
*Nomination: Best Director Tony Award (1986), for his revival of [[Eugene O'Neill|O'Neill]]'s ''Long Day's Journey into Night''.
*[[Knight Bachelor]] (2002), for services to music and the arts.
*Nominated artist of honour at [[Bornholm]] thanks to his instruction in Rønne Theater (Opera Island Bornholm; 2003).
*Foreign Member, [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].
*President, [[Rationalist Association]] (2006–2019)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Viva el Presidente |journal=New Humanist Newsletter |issue=#72 |date=5 September 2006 |url=http://newhumanist.org.uk/1373 |access-date=2 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207155954/http://newhumanist.org.uk/1373 |archive-date=7 December 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*[https://www.mjauk.org/2014/11/27/winners-of-the-medical-journalists-association-award-for-lifetime-achievement/ Lifetime Achievement Award, Medical Journalists' Association (2012)]

==Bibliography==

===Books===
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=McLuhan | year=1971 | publisher=[[Fontana Modern Masters]]}}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=Censorship and the Limits of Personal Freedom | year=1971 | publisher=Oxford University Press}}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=Freud: The Man, His World and His Influence | year=1972 | publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson}}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=The Uses of Pain (Conway memorial lecture) | year=1974 | publisher=South Place Ethical Society}}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=The Body in Question | year=1978 | publisher=Jonathan Cape}}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=Darwin for Beginners | isbn=0-375-71458-8 | year=1982 | publisher=Writers and Readers Comic Book/2003 Pantheon Books (USA)| title-link=Darwin for Beginners }}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=The Human Body | year=1983 | publisher=Viking Press }} (1994 Jonathan Cape [pop-up book])
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=States of Mind. Conversations with Psychological Investigators | year=1983 |publisher=BBC /Random House}}
* {{cite journal | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=The Facts of Life | journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal | year=1984 | volume=94 | issue=3 | page=147 | publisher=Jonathan Cape| pmid=20328473 | pmc=1935180 }} (pop-up book intended for children)
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=Subsequent Performances | year=1986 | publisher=Faber}}
* {{cite book | last=Miller, Jonathan & John Durrant | title=Laughing Matters: A Serious Look at Humour| year=1989 | publisher=Longman}}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=Acting in Opera | year=1990 | publisher=Applause Theatre & Cinema Books}} (The Applause Acting Series)
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=The Afterlife of Plays | year=1992 | publisher=San Diego State Univ Press}} (University Research Lecture Series No. 5)
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=Dimensional Man | year=1998 | publisher=Jonathan Cape}}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=On Reflection | isbn=0-300-07713-0 | year=1998 | publisher=National Gallery Publications/Yale University Press (USA) | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/onreflection0000mill }}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=Nowhere in Particular | isbn=978-1840001501  | year=1999 | publisher=Mitchell Beazley}} [collection of his photographs]

===Editor===
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=Harvey and the Circulation of Blood: A Collection of Contemporary Documents | year=1968 | publisher=Jackdaw Publications}}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | title=The Don Giovanni Book: Myths of Seduction and Betrayal | year=1990 | publisher=Faber}}

===Contributor===
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | author2=Alan Bennett | author3-link=Peter Cook |author3=Peter Cook | author4-link=Dudley Moore |author4=Dudley Moore | title=Beyond the Fringe. A Revue | year=1963 | publisher=Souvenir Press/Samuel French| author2-link=Alan Bennett }}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller | author2=Margaret Drabble | author3-link=Richard Hoggart |author3=Richard Hoggart | author4-link=Adrian Mitchell |author4=Adrian Mitchell| title=The Permissive Society | year=1969 | publisher=Panther|display-authors=etal| author2-link=Margaret Drabble }}
* {{cite book | first=Jonathan | last=Miller |author2=Alan Bennett |author3=Peter Cook |author4= Dudley Moore  | title=The Complete Beyond the Fringe | isbn=0-413-14670-7 | year=1987 | publisher=Methuen}}
* {{cite book | editor-first=B. J.  | editor-last=Sokol| title=The Undiscover'd Country: New Essays on Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare | isbn=1-85343-197-4| year=1993 | publisher=[[Free Association Books]]}} – Jonathan Miller: "''King Lear'' in Rehearsal: A Talk" and seven other essays
* {{cite book | editor-first=Robert B. | editor-last=Silvers |author=Jonathan Miller | author2-link=Stephen Jay Gould |author2=Stephen Jay Gould | author3-link=Daniel Kevles |author3=Daniel J Kevles | author4-link=Lewontin |author4=RC Lewontin | author5-link=Oliver Sacks |author5=Oliver Sacks | title=Hidden Histories of Science | year=1997 | publisher=Granta Books}}
* {{cite book | editor-first=Robert B. | editor-last=Silvers | title=Doing It : Five Performing Arts | isbn=0-940322-75-7 | year=2000 | publisher=New York Review of Books (USA)}}. Essays by Jonathan Miller [[Geoffrey O'Brien]], [[Charles Rosen]], [[Tom Stoppard]] and [[Garry Wills]]

===Introductions and forewords===
* {{cite book | first=Robert | last=Lowell | title=Old Glory, The: Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno | year=1966 }} (directors note)
* {{cite book | first=Julian | last=Rothenstein | title=The Paradox Box: Optical Illusions, Puzzling Pictures, Verbal Diversions | year=2000 | publisher=Redstons Press / Shambhala Publications (USA)}}
* {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Scotson | title=Doran: Child of Courage | year=2000 | publisher=Macmillan}}

==Discography==

===Actor===
*''[[Bridge on the River Wye]]'' (1962 Parlophone LP; as American Announcer, American G.I., American Lieutenant, British Sergeant)

==Filmography==

===Actor===
* ''[[Beyond the Fringe]]'' (1964), TV version.
* ''[[One Way Pendulum (film)|One Way Pendulum]]'' (1964)
* ''[[Sensitive Skin (UK TV series)|Sensitive Skin]]'' (as "Dr Cass", 2 episodes, 2005)<ref>Additionally, Miller was considered for the movie roles of Jim Dixon in ''[[Lucky Jim (film)|Lucky Jim]]'' (1957) and [[Fagin]] in ''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]'' (1968).</ref>

===Director===
*''[[Alice in Wonderland (1966 film)|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 film)|Whistle and I'll Come to You]]'' (1968; BBC television drama).
*''[[Take a Girl Like You (film)|Take a Girl Like You]]'' (1970, starring [[Hayley Mills]]).
*''[[BBC Television Shakespeare]]''<ref>Produced 12 plays, directed 6.</ref> (1978–85):
**''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' (1980), starring [[John Cleese]].
**''[[Timon of Athens]]'' (1981), starring [[Jonathan Pryce]].
**''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' (1981), starring [[Colin Blakely]].
**''[[Othello]]'' (1981), starring [[Anthony Hopkins]] and [[Bob Hoskins]].
**''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'' (1981).
**''[[King Lear]]'' (1982), starring [[Michael Hordern]].
*''[[The Beggar's Opera (1983 film)|The Beggar's Opera]]'' (1983; BBC television opera), starring [[Roger Daltrey]] and [[Bob Hoskins]].

===Presenter-writer===
*''[[Monitor (arts programme)|Monitor]]'' (1962; also editor).
*''[[The Zoo in Winter]]'' (1969), BBC, directed by [[Patrick 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 (TV series)|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).

===Interviewee===
* In 1988 Miller made an extended appearance on the discussion programme ''[[After Dark (TV programme)|After Dark]]'', described [[After Dark (TV programme)#Jonathan Miller and "Alternative Medicine"|here]].
* {{cite book | author=BBC | title = 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 the ''[[St Matthew Passion]]''.
* {{cite book | author=PBS | title = Vermeer: Master of Light}} Miller appears in this one-hour program on the painter.

==Selected stage productions==

===Musical revue===
*''[[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).<ref>Title changed to ''Beyond The Fringe 1964'' on 8 January 1964 (a "new edition" of the show). By then Miller had long since left the production.</ref>

===Oratorio===
*''[[St Matthew Passion]]'' (Director; [[St. George's Theatre, London]], February 1994) with [[Paul Goodwin (conductor)|Paul Goodwin]]. A dramatised production of [[J. 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.

===Drama===
*''[[The Old Glory]]'' (Director; [[American Place Theatre]], 1964) starring [[Frank Langella]], [[Roscoe Lee Brown]], and [[Lester Rawlins]].
*''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' (Director; [[Cambridge Theatre]], 1970) starring [[Laurence Olivier]].
*''[[Danton's Death]]'' (Director; 1972) starring [[Christopher Plummer]].
*''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'' (Director; [[Broadhurst Theatre]], 28 April to 29 June 1986; 54 performances), starring [[Jack Lemmon]].
*''[[Camera Obscura (play)|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, starring [[Peter Eyre]], and [[Diana Hardcastle]].
*''[[King Lear]]'' (Director; [[Vivian Beaumont Theater]] 4 March to 18 April 2004; 33 performances).
*''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' (Director; [[Crucible Theatre]], 2007).

===Opera===
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 1950s [[Little Italy, Manhattan]].
*''[[The Mikado]]'' (Stage and video director; English National Opera, 1987) starring [[Eric Idle]].
*''[[La traviata]]'' (Stage director; [[Glimmerglass Opera]], 1989).
*''[[Kata Kabanova|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 (opera)|Rodelinda]]'' (Stage director; [[Salomons Museum|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 (opera)|Falstaff]]'' (Stage director; [[New National Theatre Tokyo]], 2004).
*''[[Jenůfa]]'' (Stage director; Glimmerglass Opera with [[New York City Opera]] in [[Cooperstown, 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]] and [[Bristol]] 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 were ''[[Cosi fan tutte]]'' and ''[[Don Pasquale]]'' at the [[Royal Opera House]] (both revived in 2012) and ''[[La bohème]]'' and ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]'' at the [[English National Opera]]. His production of ''[[Rigoletto]]'' at the ENO is still being revived after 28 years and his production of ''[[The Mikado]]'' is about to return in its 25th year. His 1987 ENO production of ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'' has often been revived, most recently in 2017.

==Museum and gallery exhibitions==
* Miller curated an exhibition on "Reflexion" (1998) at the [[National Gallery]] and one on "Motion in Art and Photography" at the [[Estorick Gallery]] in [[Islington]].
* Miller had three exhibitions of his own art work at [[Flowers East]], the [[Boundary Gallery]] and at the [[Katz Gallery]] in [[Bond Street]], London.

==See also==
* [[Las Meninas]] – considered by Miller in his ''On Reflection''

==Notes and references==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |first=Kate |last=Bassett |title=In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller |isbn=978-1-84943-451-5 |year=2012 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |author-link=Kate Bassett |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/intwomindsbiogra0000bass }}
* {{cite book |first=Ronald |last=Bergan |title=Beyond the Fringe...and Beyond: A Critical Biography of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore |isbn=1-85227-175-2 |year=1990 |publisher=Virgin Books}}
* {{cite book |first=Humphrey |last=Carpenter |author-link=Humphrey Carpenter |title=That Was Satire, That Was: Beyond the Fringe, the Establishment Club, "Private Eye" and "That Was the Week That Was" |isbn=0-575-06588-5 |year=2000 |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson}}
* {{cite book |first=Robert |last=Hewison |author-link=Robert Hewison |title=Footlights! – A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy |isbn=0-413-51150-2 |year=1983 |publisher=Methuen }}
* {{cite book |first=William |last=Miller |title=Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-ups |location=London |publisher=Profile Books |year=2018 |isbn=9781788160360 }} [A memoir by Miller's son.]
* {{cite book |editor-first=Michael |editor-last=Romain |title=A Profile of Jonathan Miller |isbn=0-521-40953-5 |year=1992 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/profileofjonatha0000roma }}
* {{cite book |first=Roger |last=Wilmut |author-link=Roger Wilmut |title=From Fringe to Flying Circus – Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960–1980 |isbn=0-413-46950-6 |year=1980 | publisher=Eyre Methuen}}

== External links ==
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* [http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays_all?forename=Jonathan&amp;surname=MILLER&amp;job=Director&amp;pid=360&image_view=Yesamp;x=19amp;y=17 Production details, Theatre Archive, University of Bristol]
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* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041012212809/http://www.petercook.net/articles/Jonathan-Miller.htm |date=12 October 2004 |title=Can English Satire Draw Blood? }}
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081002041425/http://roycecarlton.com/admin/speakers/fileuploads/Miller_Info-Kit.pdf Jonathan Miller bio. – Miller's agents]}}
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/03/090323_theforum_080309.shtml Audio: Jonathan Miller in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion show] [[The Forum (BBC World Service)|''The Forum'']]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwtgod/ What the World Thinks of God]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/selfmadethings_20050727.shtml Jonathan Miller radio series on the origin of life – "Self Made Things"]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/nationshealth.shtml A six-part history of Public Health in England (includes a spill-over interview series)]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20050123.shtml Jonathan Miller's choices on "Desert Island Discs"]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/atheism.shtml Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545cr Jonathan Miller on Language and the Mind]

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