Person
Alan Yentob
Acting · 1947–2025 · London, England, UK
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
NOVA
Narrator
Arena
Executive Producer
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self - Narrator
imagine…
Self - Presenter
Open Air
1986
Timeshift
Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
Remembers…
Self
Ideal
Alan Yentob
Mandy
Self
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Producer
Filmography
- 2026The Land of SometimesExecutive Producer
- 2025When Alan Yentob Met Jenny SavilleSelf
- 2025The Academy of ArmandoSelf - Presenter
- 2024Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass DarklySelf - Interviewer
- 2024Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and NowSelf - Interviewer
- 2023imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, BitterSelf - Presenter
- 2023imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and MeSelf
- 2023imagine... The Factory: Made in ManchesterSelf - presenter
- 2022In Conversation with Alan YentobSelf
- 2022Remembers…Self
- 2022Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
- 2022imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for GrabsSelf - Presenter
- 2022Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
- 2021Tom Stoppard: A Charmed LifePresenter
- 2021Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and ForgettingSelf - Presenter
- 2020Marina Abramovic: The Ugly DucklingSelf - Presenter
- 2020MandySelf
- 2019The Man Who Saw Too MuchDirector
- 2019Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare DeviceSelf - Presenter
- 2019Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It IsSelf - Presenter
- 2019Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and FearlessSelf - Presenter
- 2019Jo Brand: No Holds BarredSelf - Presenter
- 2018George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?Self - Presenter
- 2018Hockney, The Queen and the Royal PeculiarSelf
- 2018Philip Pullman: Angels and DaemonsSelf - Presenter
- 2018Mel Brooks: UnwrappedSelf - Presenter
- 2017Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the RoomSelf
- 2017HabanerosExecutive Producer
- 2017Margaret Atwood: You Have Been WarnedSelf
- 2016The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio CattelanSelf
- 2016The Triumphs and Laments of William KentridgeSelf - Presenter
- 2016A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon JamesSelf
- 2016Georgia O'Keeffe: By MyselfSelf - Presenter
- 2016One Night In 2012
- 2015David Chipperfield: A Place to BeSelf - Presenter
- 2015David Gilmour: Wider HorizonsExecutive Producer
- 2015Antony Gormley: Being HumanSelf - Presenter
- 2015Shylock's GhostSelf - Presenter
- 2015Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"Self - Presenter
- 2015Absolutely AnythingMan at Party (uncredited)
- 2014The One and Only Mike LeighSelf - Presenter
- 2014Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the FutureSelf - Presenter
- 2014BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss MSelf
- 2014Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOcaSelf - Presenter
- 2014Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather SimilarSelf - Presenter
- 2014W1ASelf
- 2013Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?Self - Presenter
- 2013Hitler, the Tiger and MeSelf - Presenter
- 2013Turning the Art World Inside Out
- 2013Mini: A Life RevisitedSelf - Presenter
- 2013Zaha Hadid... Who Dares WinsSelf - Presenter
- 2013Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?Self
- 2013Goodbye Television CentreSelf - Reporter
- 2012Mel Brooks Strikes Back!Self
- 2012Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and MeSelf
- 2012Do or Die: Lang Lang's StoryPresenter
- 2012Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing DetectiveSelf
- 2012London: The Modern BabylonExecutive Producer
- 2012Ken Russell: A Bit of a DevilSelf - Presenter
- 2011Books: The Last Chapter?Self
- 2011Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown CraftsmanSelf
- 2011The Trouble with Tolstoy
- 2010Ray Davies: Imaginary ManSelf - Presenter
- 2010The Weird World of Eadweard MuybridgePresenter
- 2010Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or FavourOther
- 2010The Seven Year HitchSelf
- 2010Van Gogh: Painted with WordsSelf - Narrator
- 2009Scrabble: A Night on the TilesSelf
- 2009The Year of Anish KapoorSelf - Presenter
- 2009Live from Studio FiveSelf
- 2008Richard Serra: Man of SteelPresenter
- 2008The Story Of The Guitar
- 2008Beautiful PeopleSelf
- 2008A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki MurakamiSelf
- 2008Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the BrainPresenter
- 2008Trip to Asia: The Quest for HarmonyProducer
- 2007How to Get on in the Art WorldSelf - Presenter
- 2007Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent AdventureSelf - Presenter
- 2007Yusuf Islam: A Few Good SongsDirector
- 2007Gilbert and George: No SurrenderSelf
- 2006A Picture of the Painter Howard HodgkinSelf - Presenter
- 2006Sweet Home New OrleansSelf - Presenter
- 2005Fantastic Mr. DahlSelf - Presenter
- 2005IdealAlan Yentob
- 2004Arthur Miller: Finishing the PictureSelf
- 2003The World According to ParrSelf - Prsenter
- 2003imagine…Self - Presenter
- 2002TimeshiftSelf - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
- 1997Operation Good Guys
- 1996Never Mind the BuzzcocksSelf - Narrator
- 1988Behind The Screen
- 1986Open Air
- 1985The Real Buddy Holly StoryExecutive Producer
- 1985Studs Terkel's ChicagoExecutive Producer
- 1985Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help BritainEditor
- 1984Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984Producer
- 1984The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and ExperienceProducer
- 1984Sunset PeopleExecutive Producer
- 1984The Life and Times of Don Luis BuñuelProducer
- 1984The Long Night of Lady DayProducer
- 1984The Everly Brothers Reunion ConcertProducer
- 1983The GPO StoryProducer
- 1983Auf Wiedersehen, PetProducer
- 1983Bette Davis: The Benevolent VolcanoExecutive Producer
- 1983Kurt Vonnegut: So It GoesProducer
- 1982A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe OrtonProducer
- 1982Mike Leigh: Making PlaysSelf - Narrator, Interviewer
- 1982The Orson Welles StoryProducer
- 1982Desert Island DiscsProducer
- 1982The Private Life of the Ford CortinaExecutive Producer
- 1982The Catherine WheelProducer
- 1981Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...?Producer
- 1981Getting Away From SidneyProducer
- 1980Arena: Dire StraitsProducer
- 1980Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria WoodProducer
- 1980Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)Producer
- 1979My WayProducer
- 1978"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed SurrealistDirector
- 1975ArenaExecutive Producer
- 1975David Bowie: Cracked ActorDirector
- 1974Ella Fitzgerald's Other ShowProducer
- 1974Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’sProducer
- 1974NOVANarrator
- —A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las VegasSelf
- —IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia ParkerPresenter
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