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