Alan Yentob
- Acting
- March 11, 1947 · London, England, UK
- May 24, 2025
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
Filmography
- The Land of Sometimes · Executive producer, In Memory Of
- When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville · Self
- The Academy of Armando · Self
- Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly · Self, Director
- Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now · Self, Executive producer
- imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter · Self
- imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me · Self
- imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester · Self
- In Conversation with Alan Yentob · Self
- Remembers… · Self
- Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens · Self, Presenter
- imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs · Self, Producer
- Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
- Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life · Presenter
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting · Self
- Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling · Self
- Mandy · Self
- The Man Who Saw Too Much · Producer, Director
- Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device · Self
- Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is · Self
- Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless · Self
- Jo Brand: No Holds Barred · Self
- George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? · Self
- Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar · Self
- Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons · Self
- Mel Brooks: Unwrapped · Self, Producer
- Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room · Self
- Habaneros · Executive producer
- Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned · Self
- The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan · Self
- The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge · Self
- A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James · Self
- Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself · Self
- One Night In 2012
- David Chipperfield: A Place to Be · Self
- David Gilmour: Wider Horizons · Executive producer
- Antony Gormley: Being Human · Self
- Shylock's Ghost · Self
- Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?" · Self
- Absolutely Anything · Man at Party (uncredited)
- The One and Only Mike Leigh · Self
- Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future · Self
- BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M · Self
- Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca · Self
- Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar · Self
- W1A · Self
- Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? · Self
- Hitler, the Tiger and Me · Self
- Turning the Art World Inside Out
- Mini: A Life Revisited · Self
- Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins · Self
- Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures? · Self
- Goodbye Television Centre · Self
- Mel Brooks Strikes Back! · Self
- Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me · Self
- Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story · Presenter, Executive producer
- Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective · Self
- London: The Modern Babylon · Executive producer
- Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil · Self
- Books: The Last Chapter? · Self
- Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman · Self
- The Trouble with Tolstoy
- Ray Davies: Imaginary Man · Self, Editing
- The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge · Presenter
- Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour · Other, Editing
- The Seven Year Hitch · Self
- Van Gogh: Painted with Words · Self, Adaptation
- Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles · Self
- The Year of Anish Kapoor · Self
- Live from Studio Five · Self
- Richard Serra: Man of Steel · Presenter, Executive producer
- The Story Of The Guitar
- Beautiful People · Self
- A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami · Self
- Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain · Presenter
- Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony · Producer
- How to Get on in the Art World · Self
- Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure · Self, Executive producer
- Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs · Director
- Krapp's Last Tape · Self, Executive producer