The 6-foot-3 Mr. Miller was a towering, gangling figure in British culture, celebrated as a director, writer and performer on stage and screen; a public intellectual and television pundit; and a photographer, sculptor and author who just happened to be trained as a doctor, specializing in neurology. “We must consider first the dainty and the dumpy.”Jonathan Wolfe Miller was born in London on July 21, 1934. She survives him, in addition to their three children, Tom, Kate and William Miller. ADFor the BBC, Mr. Miller presented the arts show “Monitor” and adapted “Alice in Wonderland” in 1966, incorporating a score by Ravi Shankar and casting his “Fringe” castmates Cook and Bennett as the Mad Hatter and the Mouse. By 1974 his focus had shifted to opera, beginning with Alexander Goehr’s “Arden Must Die” for the New Opera Company in London.

Source: Washington Post November 28, 2019 00:11 UTC