Jonathan Miller
(1934-2019), Physician, theatre and opera director and television presenterSir Jonathan Wolfe Miller
Sitter in 29 portraits
Director and producer for television, stage, film and opera; actor and writer; Research Fellow in Neuropsychology, University of Sussex. Miller qualified as a doctor at Cambridge before co-authoring and performing in the revue, Beyond the Fringe (1960) and debuting as a director with John Osborne's Under Plain Cover (1962). His productions include King Lear (1970), Rigoletto (1975), The Mikado (1987) and La Bohème (2009). His wide-ranging achievements include The Body in Question, a series for BBC television (1978) and Mirror Image: Jonathan Miller on Reflection, an exhibition curated for the National Gallery (1998).
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'Beyond the Fringe' (Alan Bennett; Peter Cook; Jonathan Miller; Dudley Moore)
by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1961
NPG P512(22)
by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 13 September 1978
NPG P1901
by Dmitri Kasterine
digital print, 2009, based on a work of 1980
NPG P1332
by Stephen Conroy
oil on canvas, 1999
NPG 6492
by Godfrey MacDomnic
bromide print on card mount, 3 August 1954
NPG x76994
Peter Cook; Jonathan Miller; Dudley Moore; Alan Bennett
by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1961
NPG x32732
Beyond the Fringe (Jonathan Miller; Peter Cook; Dudley Moore; Alan Bennett)
by Lewis Morley
bromide fibre print, 1961
NPG x38939
Beyond the Fringe (Alan Bennett; Peter Cook; Dudley Moore; Jonathan Miller)
by Lewis Morley
bromide fibre print, 1961
NPG x38938
Beyond the Fringe (Alan Bennett; Peter Cook; Jonathan Miller; Dudley Moore)
by Lewis Morley
bromide fibre print, 1961
NPG x44845
Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook; Jonathan Miller; Dudley Moore; Alan Bennett)
by Lewis Morley
resin print, 1961
On display in Room 28 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x27384
Beyond the Fringe (Dudley Moore; Alan Bennett; Peter Cook; Jonathan Miller)
by Lewis Morley
toned bromide print, 1961
NPG x125263
Beyond the Fringe (Jonathan Miller; Peter Cook; Dudley Moore; Alan Bennett)
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1961
NPG x126027
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, May 1962
NPG x88219
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, January 1962
NPG x14142
Jonathan Miller as Kirby in 'One Way Pendulum'
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, 1964
NPG x194296
by Frances McLaughlin-Gill
bromide fibre print, 1966
NPG x46522
by Patrick Lichfield
archival inkjet print, July 1967
NPG x128493
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 1 July 1969
NPG x165641
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 1 July 1969
NPG x165642
by Judith Aronson
R-type colour print, 1978
NPG x26035
Jonathan Miller; Hanan Alattar
by Francesco Guidicini
chromogenic print, February 2009
NPG x134183
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