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