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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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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