Alan Yentob
Acting
86
Acting Credits
6
Directed
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 Academy of Armando
2025
as Self - Presenter
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
2025
as Self
Imagineā¦ Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024
as Self - Interviewer
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
2024
as Self - Interviewer
imagineā¦ Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023
as Self
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
2023
as Self - presenter
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
as Self - Presenter
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
as Self - Presenter
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
as Self
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022
as Self
Remembersā¦
2022
as Self
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
2021
as Presenter
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
2021
as Self - Presenter
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
2020
as Self - Presenter
Mandy
2020
as Self
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
2019
as Self - Presenter
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
2019
as Self - Presenter
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
2019
as Self - Presenter
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
2019
as Self - Presenter
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
2018
as Self
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
as Self - Presenter
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
2018
as Self - Presenter
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
2018
as Self - Presenter
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
2017
as Self
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
2017
as Self
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
2016
as Self
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
2016
as Self - Presenter
One Night In 2012
2016
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
2016
as Self
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
2016
as Self - Presenter
Antony Gormley: Being Human
2015
as Self - Presenter
Shylock's Ghost
2015
as Self - Presenter
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
2015
as Self - Presenter
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
2015
as Self - Presenter
Absolutely Anything
2015
as Man at Party (uncredited)
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
as Self - Presenter
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014
as Self - Presenter
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014
as Self
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
2014
as Self - Presenter
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
2014
as Self - Presenter
W1A
2014
as Self
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
2013
as Self - Presenter
Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013
Mini: A Life Revisited
2013
as Self - Presenter
Goodbye Television Centre
2013
as Self - Reporter
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
2013
as Self - Presenter
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
2013
as Self
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013
as Self - Presenter
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012
as Self
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
2012
as Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
as Self - Presenter
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
2012
as Self
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
2011
as Self
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011
as Self
The Trouble with Tolstoy
2011
The Seven Year Hitch
2010
as Self
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
2010
as Self - Presenter
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010
as Presenter
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010
as Self - Narrator
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
2009
as Self
The Year of Anish Kapoor
2009
as Self - Presenter
Live from Studio Five
2009
as Self
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
2008
as Self
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
2008
as Presenter
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
2008
as Presenter
The Story Of The Guitar
2008
Beautiful People
2008
as Self
How to Get on in the Art World
2007
as Self - Presenter
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
2007
as Self
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
2007
as Self - Presenter
Krapp's Last Tape
2007
as Self (Introduction)
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
2006
as Self - Presenter
Sweet Home New Orleans
2006
as Self - Presenter
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
2005
as Self - Presenter
Ideal
2005
as Alan Yentob
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
2004
as Self
The World According to Parr
2003
as Self - Prsenter
imagineā¦
2003
as Self - Presenter
Timeshift
2002
as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
Operation Good Guys
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
as Self - Narrator
Behind The Screen
1988
Open Air
1986
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
as Self - Narrator, Interviewer
NOVA
1974
as Narrator