Alan Yentob
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.
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Movies (112)
The Land of Sometimes
2026 · Executive Producer, In Memory Of
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
2025 · Self
The Academy of Armando
2025 · Self - Presenter
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
2024 · Self - Interviewer, Director
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024 · Self - Interviewer, Executive Producer, Editor
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023 · Self - Presenter
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023 · Self
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
2023 · Self - presenter
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022 · Self, Presenter
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022 · Self - Presenter, Producer
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
2021 · Presenter
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
2021 · Self - Presenter
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
2020 · Self - Presenter
The Man Who Saw Too Much
2019 · Director, Producer
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
2019 · Self - Presenter
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
2019 · Self - Presenter
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
2019 · Self - Presenter
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
2019 · Self - Presenter
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
2018 · Self - Presenter
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
2018 · Self
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
2018 · Self - Presenter
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018 · Self - Presenter, Producer, Director
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
2017 · Self
Habaneros
2017 · Executive Producer
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
2017 · Self
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
2016 · Self
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
2016 · Self - Presenter
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
2016 · Self
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
2016 · Self - Presenter
One Night In 2012
2016
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
2015 · Self - Presenter
David Gilmour: Wider Horizons
2015 · Executive Producer
Antony Gormley: Being Human
2015 · Self - Presenter
Shylock's Ghost
2015 · Self - Presenter
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
2015 · Self - Presenter
Absolutamente todo
2015 · Man at Party (uncredited)
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014 · Self - Presenter
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
2014 · Self - Presenter
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
2014 · Self - Presenter
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014 · Self - Presenter
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013 · Self - Presenter
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
2013 · Self - Presenter
Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013
Mini: A Life Revisited
2013 · Self - Presenter
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
2013 · Self - Presenter
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
2013 · Self
Goodbye Television Centre
2013 · Self - Reporter
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012 · Self
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
2012 · Self
Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story
2012 · Presenter, Executive Producer
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
2012 · Self
London: The Modern Babylon
2012 · Executive Producer
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012 · Self - Presenter
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011 · Self
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
2011 · Self
The Trouble with Tolstoy
2011
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
2010 · Self - Presenter, Editor
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010 · Presenter
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
2010 · Other, Editor
The Seven Year Hitch
2010 · Self
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010 · Self - Narrator, Adaptation, Producer
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
2009 · Self
The Year of Anish Kapoor
2009 · Self - Presenter
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
2008 · Presenter, Executive Producer
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
2008 · Self
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
2008 · Presenter
Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony
2008 · Producer
How to Get on in the Art World
2007 · Self - Presenter
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
2007 · Self - Presenter, Executive Producer
Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs
2007 · Director
Krapp's Last Tape
2007 · Self (Introduction), Executive Producer
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
2007 · Self
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
2006 · Self - Presenter
Sweet Home New Orleans
2006 · Self - Presenter
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
2005 · Self - Presenter
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
2004 · Self
The World According to Parr
2003 · Self - Prsenter
The Real Buddy Holly Story
1985 · Executive Producer
Studs Terkel's Chicago
1985 · Executive Producer
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985 · Editor, Producer
Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984
1984 · Producer
The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience
1984 · Producer
Sunset People
1984 · Executive Producer
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
1984 · Producer
The Long Night of Lady Day
1984 · Producer
The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
1984 · Producer
The GPO Story
1983 · Producer
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983 · Executive Producer
Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes
1983 · Producer
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
1982 · Producer
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982 · Self - Narrator, Interviewer, Producer
The Orson Welles Story
1982 · Producer
Desert Island Discs
1982 · Producer
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1982 · Executive Producer
The Catherine Wheel
1982 · Producer
Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...?
1981 · Producer
Today Carshalton Beeches... Tomorrow Croydon
1981 · Producer
Getting Away From Sidney
1981 · Producer
Arena: Dire Straits
1980 · Producer
Luck and Flaw
1980 · Producer
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
1980 · Producer
Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)
1980 · Producer
Mentioned in Dispatches
1980 · Executive Producer
Lene Lovich: Sleeping Beauty
1980 · Producer
My Way
1979 · Producer
"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
1978 · Director
David Bowie: Cracked Actor
1975 · Director, Producer, Writer
Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show
1974 · Producer
Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’s
1974 · Producer
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
· Self
IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia Parker
· Presenter, Editor
TV shows (17)
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022 · Self
Remembers…
2022 · Self
Mandy
2020 · Self
W1A
2014 · Self
Live from Studio Five
2009 · Self
The Story Of The Guitar
2008
Beautiful People
2008 · Self
Ideal
2005 · Alan Yentob
imagine…
2003 · Self - Presenter, Editor
Timeshift
2002 · Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
Operation Good Guys
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996 · Self - Narrator
Behind The Screen
1988
Open Air
1986
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983 · Producer
Arena
1975 · Self, Executive Producer
NOVA
1974 · Narrator