Alan Yentob
Born: 1947-03-11 in London, England, UK
Died: 2025-05-24
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- The Land of Sometimes ... (Executive Producer)
2025
- The Academy of Armando as Self - Presenter
- When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville as Self
2024
- Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now as Self - Interviewer
- Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly as Self - Interviewer
2023
- imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me as Self
- imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter as Self - Presenter
- imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester as Self - presenter
2022
- Remembers… as Self
- In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
- Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
- imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs as Self - Presenter
- Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2021
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting as Self - Presenter
- Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life as Presenter
2020
- Mandy as Self
- Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling as Self - Presenter
2019
- Jo Brand: No Holds Barred as Self - Presenter
- The Man Who Saw Too Much ... (Producer)
- Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless as Self - Presenter
- Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is as Self - Presenter
- Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device as Self - Presenter
2018
- Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self - Presenter
- Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar as Self
- George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? as Self - Presenter
- Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons as Self - Presenter
2017
- Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room as Self
- Habaneros ... (Executive Producer)
- Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned as Self
2016
- One Night In 2012
- A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James as Self
- The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge as Self - Presenter
- Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself as Self - Presenter
- The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan as Self
2015
- Absolutely Anything as Man at Party (uncredited)
- Shylock's Ghost as Self - Presenter
- David Gilmour: Wider Horizons ... (Executive Producer)
- Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?" as Self - Presenter
- David Chipperfield: A Place to Be as Self - Presenter
- Antony Gormley: Being Human as Self - Presenter
2014
- W1A as Self
- Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar as Self - Presenter
- The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self - Presenter
- BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M as Self
- Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca as Self - Presenter
- Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future as Self - Presenter
2013
- Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? as Self - Presenter
- Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures? as Self
- Goodbye Television Centre as Self - Reporter
- Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins as Self - Presenter
- Mini: A Life Revisited as Self - Presenter
- Hitler, the Tiger and Me as Self - Presenter
- Turning the Art World Inside Out
2012
- London: The Modern Babylon ... (Executive Producer)
- Mel Brooks Strikes Back! as Self
- Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil as Self - Presenter
- Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story ... (Presenter)
- Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me as Self
- Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective as Self
2011
2010
- Van Gogh: Painted with Words as Self - Narrator
- The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge as Presenter
- The Seven Year Hitch as Self
- Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour ... (Other)
- Ray Davies: Imaginary Man as Self - Presenter
2009
- Live from Studio Five as Self
- Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles as Self
- The Year of Anish Kapoor as Self - Presenter
2008
- Beautiful People as Self
- The Story Of The Guitar
- Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony ... (Producer)
- Richard Serra: Man of Steel as Presenter
- A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami as Self
- Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain as Presenter
2007
- Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure as Self - Presenter
- How to Get on in the Art World as Self - Presenter
- Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs ... (Director)
- Gilbert and George: No Surrender as Self
2006
- A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin as Self - Presenter
- Sweet Home New Orleans as Self - Presenter
2005
- Ideal as Alan Yentob
- Fantastic Mr. Dahl as Self - Presenter
2004
2003
- imagine… as Self - Presenter
- The World According to Parr as Self - Prsenter
2002
- Timeshift as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
1997
1996
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Narrator
1988
1986
1985
- The Real Buddy Holly Story ... (Executive Producer)
- Studs Terkel's Chicago ... (Executive Producer)
- Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain ... (Editor)
1984
- The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience ... (Producer)
- The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel ... (Producer)
- The Long Night of Lady Day ... (Producer)
- Sunset People ... (Executive Producer)
- The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert ... (Producer)
- Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984 ... (Producer)
1983
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet ... (Producer)
- Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano ... (Executive Producer)
- Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes ... (Producer)
- The GPO Story ... (Producer)
1982
- Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self - Narrator, Interviewer
- The Orson Welles Story ... (Producer)
- A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton ... (Producer)
- Desert Island Discs ... (Producer)
- The Private Life of the Ford Cortina ... (Executive Producer)
- The Catherine Wheel ... (Producer)
1981
- Getting Away From Sidney ... (Producer)
- Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...? ... (Producer)
1980
- Arena: Dire Straits ... (Producer)
- Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood ... (Producer)
- Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone) ... (Producer)
1979
- My Way ... (Producer)
1978
- "The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist ... (Director)
1975
- Arena ... (Executive Producer)
- David Bowie: Cracked Actor ... (Director)
1974
- NOVA as Narrator
- Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show ... (Producer)
- Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’s ... (Producer)