Alan Yentob
Known for Acting · 86 credits
- Born
- 1947-03-11
- Died
- 2025-05-24
- Place of birth
- 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
TV Shows (15)
NOVA
1974
as Narrator
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
as Self - Narrator
imagine…
2003
as Self - Presenter
Timeshift
2002
as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
Open Air
1986
Ideal
2005
as Alan Yentob
Remembers…
2022
as Self
Mandy
2020
as Self
W1A
2014
as Self
Beautiful People
2008
as Self
Operation Good Guys
1997
Behind The Screen
1988
Live from Studio Five
2009
as Self
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022
as Self
The Story Of The Guitar
2008
Movies (71)
Absolutely Anything
2015
as Man at Party (uncredited)
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
2017
as Self
The Academy of Armando
2025
as Self - Presenter
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010
as Self - Narrator
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
as Self - Narrator, Interviewer
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013
as Self - Presenter
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
as Self - Presenter
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
2007
as Self - Presenter
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
2019
as Self - Presenter
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
as Self - Presenter
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024
as Self - Interviewer
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023
as Self
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
as Self - Presenter
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014
as Self - Presenter
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
2013
as Self
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012
as Self
Mini: A Life Revisited
2013
as Self - Presenter
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
2023
as Self - presenter
Shylock's Ghost
2015
as Self - Presenter
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
2006
as Self - Presenter
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
2015
as Self - Presenter
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
2008
as Presenter
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
2005
as Self - Presenter
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011
as Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
as Self - Presenter
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
2014
as Self - Presenter
One Night In 2012
2016
Goodbye Television Centre
2013
as Self - Reporter
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
2007
as Self
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
2024
as Self - Interviewer
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
2012
as Self
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
2012
as Self
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
2020
as Self - Presenter
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
2018
as Self
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
2025
as Self
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
2019
as Self - Presenter
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
2009
as Self
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
2016
as Self - Presenter
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
2016
as Self
The Seven Year Hitch
2010
as Self
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010
as Presenter
How to Get on in the Art World
2007
as Self - Presenter
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
2018
as Self - Presenter
Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013
The World According to Parr
2003
as Self - Prsenter
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014
as Self
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
as Self - Presenter
The Trouble with Tolstoy
2011
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
2011
as Self
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
2015
as Self - Presenter
Antony Gormley: Being Human
2015
as Self - Presenter
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
2014
as Self - Presenter
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
2016
as Self
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
2017
as Self
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
2008
as Self
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
2008
as Presenter
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
2004
as Self
Sweet Home New Orleans
2006
as Self - Presenter
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
as Self
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
2021
as Presenter
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
2013
as Self - Presenter
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
2019
as Self - Presenter
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
2010
as Self - Presenter
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
2021
as Self - Presenter
The Year of Anish Kapoor
2009
as Self - Presenter
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
2018
as Self - Presenter
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
2019
as Self - Presenter
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
2013
as Self - Presenter
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
2016
as Self - Presenter
About Alan Yentob
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. With 86 credits spanning from 1974 to 2025, Alan Yentob has appeared in 71 films and 15 TV shows.
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Most Popular Alan Yentob Movies
- Absolutely Anything (2015) — as Man at Party (uncredited)
- Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room (2017) — as Self
- The Academy of Armando (2025) — as Self - Presenter
- Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010) — as Self - Narrator
- Mike Leigh: Making Plays (1982) — as Self - Narrator, Interviewer
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