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Jonathan Miller

(1934-2019), Physician, theatre and opera director and television presenter

Sir 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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Jonathan Miller

by Jane Bown
bromide print, 1954
NPG P375

'Beyond the Fringe' (Alan Bennett; Peter Cook; Jonathan Miller; Dudley Moore)

by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1961
NPG P512(22)

Jonathan Miller

by Mark Boxer
ink and pencil, 1970s
NPG 5920(18)

Jonathan Miller

by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 13 September 1978
NPG P1901

Jonathan Miller

by Dmitri Kasterine
digital print, 2009, based on a work of 1980
NPG P1332

Jonathan Miller

by Stephen Conroy
oil on canvas, 1999
NPG 6492

Jonathan Miller

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
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

Jonathan Miller

by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, May 1962
NPG x88219

Jonathan Miller

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

Jonathan Miller

by Frances McLaughlin-Gill
bromide fibre print, 1966
NPG x46522

''In' Group'

by Patrick Lichfield
archival inkjet print, July 1967
NPG x128493

Jonathan Miller

by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 1 July 1969
NPG x165641

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