Alan Yentob
Acting
- Born:
- 1947-03-11
- Died:
- 2025-05-24
- Place of birth:
- 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
Filmography
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
The Academy of Armando
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
Remembers…
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
Mandy
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
One Night In 2012
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
Antony Gormley: Being Human
Shylock's Ghost
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
Absolutely Anything
The One and Only Mike Leigh
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
W1A
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
Turning the Art World Inside Out
Mini: A Life Revisited
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
Goodbye Television Centre
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Books: The Last Chapter?
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
The Trouble with Tolstoy
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
The Seven Year Hitch
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
The Year of Anish Kapoor
Live from Studio Five
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
The Story Of The Guitar
Beautiful People
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
How to Get on in the Art World
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
Krapp's Last Tape
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
Sweet Home New Orleans
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
Ideal
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
The World According to Parr
imagine…
Timeshift
Operation Good Guys
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Behind The Screen
Open Air
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
NOVA
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas