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