Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBEis an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. While training in medicine, and specializing in neurology, in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth21 July 1934
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