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Actor
Alan Yentob
- Born March 11, 1947 in London, England, UK
- Died May 24, 2025
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
Absolutely Anything2015
NOVA1974
Ideal2005
Operation Good Guys1997
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain2008
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life2021
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song2022
Turning the Art World Inside Out2013
Filmography
- TBAA Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las VegasFilmSelf
- TBAIMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia ParkerFilmPresenter, Editor
- 2026The Land of SometimesFilmExecutive Producer, In Memory Of
- 2025The Academy of ArmandoFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2025When Alan Yentob Met Jenny SavilleFilmSelf
- 2024Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and NowFilmSelf - Interviewer, Executive Producer, Editor
- 2024Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass DarklyFilmSelf - Interviewer, Director
- 2023imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and MeFilmSelf
- 2023imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, BitterFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2023imagine... The Factory: Made in ManchesterFilmSelf - presenter
- 2022Remembers…SeriesSelf
- 2022Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It HappensFilmSelf, Presenter
- 2022imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for GrabsFilmSelf - Presenter, Producer
- 2022Labi Siffre: This Is My SongFilm
- 2022In Conversation with Alan YentobSeriesSelf
- 2021Tom Stoppard: A Charmed LifeFilmPresenter
- 2021Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and ForgettingFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2020MandySeriesSelf
- 2020Marina Abramovic: The Ugly DucklingFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2019The Man Who Saw Too MuchFilmDirector, Producer
- 2019Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It IsFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2019Jo Brand: No Holds BarredFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2019Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and FearlessFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2019Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare DeviceFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2018Mel Brooks: UnwrappedFilmSelf - Presenter, Producer, Director
- 2018Hockney, The Queen and the Royal PeculiarFilmSelf
- 2018Philip Pullman: Angels and DaemonsFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2018George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?FilmSelf - Presenter
- 2017HabanerosFilmExecutive Producer
- 2017Margaret Atwood: You Have Been WarnedFilmSelf
- 2017Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the RoomFilmSelf
- 2016The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio CattelanFilmSelf
- 2016The Triumphs and Laments of William KentridgeFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2016One Night In 2012Film
- 2016A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon JamesFilmSelf
- 2016Georgia O'Keeffe: By MyselfFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2015Absolutely AnythingFilmMan at Party (uncredited)
- 2015David Gilmour: Wider HorizonsFilmExecutive Producer
- 2015Antony Gormley: Being HumanFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2015Shylock's GhostFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2015Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"FilmSelf - Presenter
- 2015David Chipperfield: A Place to BeFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2014W1ASeriesSelf
- 2014Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather SimilarFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2014The One and Only Mike LeighFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2014BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss MFilmSelf
- 2014Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOcaFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2014Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the FutureFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2013Zaha Hadid... Who Dares WinsFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2013Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?FilmSelf
- 2013Turning the Art World Inside OutFilm
- 2013Mini: A Life RevisitedFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2013Goodbye Television CentreFilmSelf - Reporter
- 2013Hitler, the Tiger and MeFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2013Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?FilmSelf - Presenter
- 2012London: The Modern BabylonFilmExecutive Producer
- 2012Mel Brooks Strikes Back!FilmSelf
- 2012Ken Russell: A Bit of a DevilFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2012Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing DetectiveFilmSelf
- 2012Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and MeFilmSelf
- 2012Do or Die: Lang Lang's StoryFilmExecutive Producer, Presenter
- 2011Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown CraftsmanFilmSelf
- 2011Books: The Last Chapter?FilmSelf
- 2011The Trouble with TolstoyFilm
- 2010Van Gogh: Painted with WordsFilmSelf - Narrator, Adaptation, Producer
- 2010Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or FavourFilmOther, Editor
- 2010The Seven Year HitchFilmSelf
- 2010Ray Davies: Imaginary ManFilmSelf - Presenter, Editor
- 2010The Weird World of Eadweard MuybridgeFilmPresenter
- 2009Live from Studio FiveSeriesSelf
- 2009Scrabble: A Night on the TilesFilmSelf
- 2009The Year of Anish KapoorFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2008Beautiful PeopleSeriesSelf
- 2008A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki MurakamiFilmSelf
- 2008Trip to Asia: The Quest for HarmonyFilmProducer
- 2008Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the BrainFilmPresenter
- 2008Richard Serra: Man of SteelFilmPresenter, Executive Producer
- 2008The Story Of The GuitarSeries
- 2007How to Get on in the Art WorldFilmSelf - Presenter
- 2007Gilbert and George: No SurrenderFilmSelf