Alan Yentob
Acting • AGE 78
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 directo...
Acting
The Land of Sometimes
Executive Producer
2026
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
Self
2025
The Academy of Armando
Self - Presenter
2025
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
Self - Interviewer
2024
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
Self - Interviewer
2024
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Self - Presenter
2023
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Self
2023
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
Self - presenter
2023
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
Self
2022
Remembers…
Self
2022
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Self - Presenter
2022
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
Presenter
2021
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
Self - Presenter
2021
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
Self - Presenter
2020
Mandy
Self
2020
The Man Who Saw Too Much
Director
2019
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
Self - Presenter
2019
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
Self - Presenter
2019
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
Self - Presenter
2019
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
Self
2018
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
Self - Presenter
2018
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Self - Presenter
2018
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
Self
2017
Habaneros
Executive Producer
2017
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
Self
2017
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
Self
2016
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
Self - Presenter
2016
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
Self
2016
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
Self - Presenter
2016
One Night In 2012
2016
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
Self - Presenter
2015
David Gilmour: Wider Horizons
Executive Producer
2015
Antony Gormley: Being Human
Self - Presenter
2015
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
Self - Presenter
2015
Absolutely Anything
Man at Party (uncredited)
2015
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
Self - Presenter
2014
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
Self
2014
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
Self - Presenter
2014
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
Self - Presenter
2014
W1A
Self
2014
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
Self - Presenter
2013
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
Self - Presenter
2013
Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013
Mini: A Life Revisited
Self - Presenter
2013
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
Self - Presenter
2013
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
Self
2013
Goodbye Television Centre
Self - Reporter
2013
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Self
2012
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
Self
2012
Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story
Executive Producer
2012
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
Self
2012
London: The Modern Babylon
Executive Producer
2012
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Self - Presenter
2012
Books: The Last Chapter?
Self
2011
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
Self
2011
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
Self - Presenter
2010
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
Presenter
2010
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
Other
2010
The Seven Year Hitch
Self
2010
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Self - Narrator
2010
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
Self
2009
The Year of Anish Kapoor
Self - Presenter
2009
Live from Studio Five
Self
2009
The Story Of The Guitar
2008
Beautiful People
Self
2008
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
Presenter
2008
Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony
Producer
2008
How to Get on in the Art World
Self - Presenter
2007
Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs
Director
2007
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
Self
2007
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
Self - Presenter
2006
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
Self - Presenter
2005
Ideal
Alan Yentob
2005
The World According to Parr
Self - Prsenter
2003
imagine…
Self - Presenter
2003
Timeshift
Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
2002
Operation Good Guys
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self - Narrator
1996
The Real Buddy Holly Story
Executive Producer
1985
Studs Terkel's Chicago
Executive Producer
1985
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Editor
1985
Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984
Producer
1984
The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Producer
1984
Sunset People
Executive Producer
1984
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Producer
1984
The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
Producer
1984
The GPO Story
Producer
1983
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Producer
1983
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Executive Producer
1983
Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes
Producer
1983
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
Producer
1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Self - Narrator, Interviewer
1982
The Orson Welles Story
Producer
1982
Desert Island Discs
Producer
1982
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
Executive Producer
1982
The Catherine Wheel
Producer
1982
Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...?
Producer
1981
Arena: Dire Straits
Producer
1980
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
Producer
1980
Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)
Producer
1980
My Way
Producer
1979
"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
Director
1978
Arena
Executive Producer
1975
David Bowie: Cracked Actor
Director
1975
Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show
Producer
1974
Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’s
Producer
1974
NOVA
Narrator
1974
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
Self