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