Alan Yentob
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 11, 1947
- Died
- May 24, 2025 (aged 78)
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
Biography
Alan Yentob was a British television executive and presenter. He held senior roles at the BBC, including head of music and arts, controller of BBC1 and BBC2, and was the corporation's creative director from 2004 until 2015.
Known For
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Filmography
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
Movie · as Self
The Academy of Armando
Movie · as Self - Presenter
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
Movie · as Self
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
Movie · as Self - Interviewer
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
Movie · as Self - Interviewer
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Movie · as Self
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
Movie · as Self - presenter
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Movie · as Self - Presenter
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
Movie · as Self
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
Movie
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Remembers…
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
Movie · as Presenter
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Mandy
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
Movie · as Self
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
Movie · as Self - Presenter
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
Movie · as Self
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
Movie · as Self
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
Movie · as Self
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
Movie · as Self - Presenter
One Night In 2012
Movie
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
Movie · as Self
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Antony Gormley: Being Human
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Shylock's Ghost
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
Movie · as Self - Presenter
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Absolutely Anything
Movie · as Man at Party (uncredited)
The One and Only Mike Leigh
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
Movie · as Self - Presenter
W1A
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Turning the Art World Inside Out
Movie
Mini: A Life Revisited
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Goodbye Television Centre
Movie · as Self - Reporter
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
Movie · as Self
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Movie · as Self
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
Movie · as Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
Movie · as Self
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
Movie · as Self
Books: The Last Chapter?
Movie · as Self
The Trouble with Tolstoy
Movie
The Seven Year Hitch
Movie · as Self
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
Movie · as Self - Presenter
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
Movie · as Presenter
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
Movie · as Self
The Year of Anish Kapoor
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Live from Studio Five
TV · as Self · 1 ep
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
Movie · as Self
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
Movie · as Presenter
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
Movie · as Presenter
The Story Of The Guitar
TV · 3 eps
Beautiful People
TV · as Self · 1 ep
How to Get on in the Art World
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
Movie · as Self
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Krapp's Last Tape
Movie · as Self (Introduction)
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Sweet Home New Orleans
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Ideal
TV · as Alan Yentob · 1 ep
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
Movie · as Self
The World According to Parr
Movie · as Self - Prsenter
imagine…
TV · as Self - Presenter · 340 eps
Timeshift
TV · as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage) · 1 ep
Operation Good Guys
TV · 1 ep
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV · as Self - Narrator · 1 ep
Behind The Screen
TV · 1 ep
Open Air
TV · 1 ep
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Movie · as Self - Narrator, Interviewer
Arena
TV · as Self · 1 ep
NOVA
TV · as Narrator · 1 ep