Alan Yentob
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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
Credits
Absolutely Anything (2015)
as Man at Party (uncredited)
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room (2017)
as Self
Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010)
as Self - Narrator
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped (2018)
as Self - Presenter
Mike Leigh: Making Plays (1982)
as Self - Narrator, Interviewer
The Academy of Armando (2025)
as Self - Presenter
Mel Brooks Strikes Back! (2012)
as Self
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar (2014)
as Self - Presenter
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures? (2013)
as Self
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred (2019)
as Self - Presenter
The One and Only Mike Leigh (2014)
as Self - Presenter
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now (2024)
as Self - Interviewer
Mini: A Life Revisited (2013)
as Self - Presenter
Shylock's Ghost (2015)
as Self - Presenter
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? (2013)
as Self - Presenter
One Night In 2012 (2016)
Actor
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned (2017)
as Self
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure (2007)
as Self - Presenter
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James (2016)
as Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil (2012)
as Self - Presenter
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin (2006)
as Self - Presenter
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M (2014)
as Self
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge (2010)
as Presenter
Fantastic Mr. Dahl (2005)
as Self - Presenter
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future (2014)
as Self - Presenter
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me (2023)
as Self
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter (2023)
as Self - Presenter
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly (2024)
as Self - Interviewer
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling (2020)
as Self - Presenter
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song (2022)
Actor
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be (2015)
as Self - Presenter
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?" (2015)
as Self - Presenter
Richard Serra: Man of Steel (2008)
as Presenter
How to Get on in the Art World (2007)
as Self - Presenter
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca (2014)
as Self - Presenter
Books: The Last Chapter? (2011)
as Self
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is (2019)
as Self - Presenter
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain (2008)
as Presenter
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective (2012)
as Self
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan (2016)
as Self
The Seven Year Hitch (2010)
as Self
Gilbert and George: No Surrender (2007)
as Self
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville (2025)
as Self
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life (2021)
as Presenter
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens (2022)
Actor
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? (2018)
as Self - Presenter
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me (2012)
as Self
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles (2009)
as Self
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge (2016)
as Self - Presenter
Antony Gormley: Being Human (2015)
as Self - Presenter
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture (2004)
as Self
Turning the Art World Inside Out (2013)
Actor
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester (2023)
as Self - presenter
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami (2008)
as Self
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins (2013)
as Self - Presenter
Goodbye Television Centre (2013)
as Self - Reporter
Sweet Home New Orleans (2006)
as Self - Presenter
The Trouble with Tolstoy (2011)
Actor
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman (2011)
as Self
The Year of Anish Kapoor (2009)
as Self - Presenter
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar (2018)
as Self
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man (2010)
as Self - Presenter
The World According to Parr (2003)
as Self - Prsenter
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons (2018)
as Self - Presenter
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device (2019)
as Self - Presenter
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting (2021)
as Self - Presenter
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs (2022)
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
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas (—)
as Self