Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller · Arts & Literature
Physician, Beyond the Fringe satirist and opera director; presenter of The Body in Question
21 July 1934, London, England — 27 November 2019, London, England
United Kingdom
Jonathan Miller is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Physician, Beyond the Fringe satirist and opera director; presenter of The Body in Question
Jonathan Miller trained as a doctor in neurology, then joined Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett in 'Beyond the Fringe' (1960), the revue that opened the British satire boom. He went on to direct more than fifty operas across four decades — his 'Rigoletto' relocated to 1950s Little Italy became famous — and presented the BBC series 'The Body in Question' and 'Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief'. He grew up in St John's Wood in a well-connected Jewish family; his father Emanuel, a psychiatrist, was of Lithuanian Jewish descent.
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Physician, Beyond the Fringe satirist and opera director; presenter of The Body in Question
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