Alan Yentob

Known for: Acting
Born: March 11, 1947, London, England, UK
Died: May 24, 2025
Movies: 104

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.

Upcoming Alan Yentob Movies

A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

5.9

Absolutely Anything

2015

7.3

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

2010

7.6

David Bowie: Cracked Actor

1975

6.4

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

2018

9.0

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

2023

8.3

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

2024

6.5

Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

2012

6.0

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

2014

8.5

Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony

2008

8.0

Arena: Dire Straits

1980

Filmography

2025	When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville	Self
2025	The Academy of Armando	Self - Presenter
2024	Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly	Self - Interviewer
2024	Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now	Self - Interviewer
2023	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
2022	Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens	Self
2022	imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs	Self - Presenter
2022	Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2021	Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life	Presenter
2021	Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting	Self - Presenter
2020	Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling	Self - Presenter
2019	Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device	Self - Presenter
2019	Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is	Self - Presenter
2019	Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless	Self - Presenter
2019	Jo Brand: No Holds Barred	Self - Presenter
2018	George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?	Self - Presenter
2018	Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar	Self
2018	Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons	Self - Presenter
2018	Mel Brooks: Unwrapped	Self - Presenter
2017	Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room	Self
2017	Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned	Self
2016	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
2015	David Chipperfield: A Place to Be	Self - Presenter
2015	Antony Gormley: Being Human	Self - Presenter
2015	Shylock's Ghost	Self - Presenter
2015	Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"	Self - Presenter
2015	Absolutely Anything	Man at Party (uncredited)
2014	The One and Only Mike Leigh	Self - Presenter
2014	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
2013	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
2012	Mel Brooks Strikes Back!	Self
2012	Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me	Self
2012	Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective	Self
2012	Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil	Self - Presenter
2011	Books: The Last Chapter?	Self
2011	Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman	Self
2011	The Trouble with Tolstoy
2010	Ray Davies: Imaginary Man	Self - Presenter
2010	The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge	Presenter
2010	The Seven Year Hitch	Self
2010	Van Gogh: Painted with Words	Self - Narrator
2009	Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles	Self
2009	The Year of Anish Kapoor	Self - Presenter
2008	Richard Serra: Man of Steel	Presenter
2008	A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami	Self
2008	Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain	Presenter
2007	How to Get on in the Art World	Self - Presenter
2007	Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure	Self - Presenter
2007	Krapp's Last Tape	Self (Introduction)
2007	Gilbert and George: No Surrender	Self
2006	A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin	Self - Presenter
2006	Sweet Home New Orleans	Self - Presenter
2005	Fantastic Mr. Dahl	Self - Presenter
2004	Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture	Self
2003	The World According to Parr	Self - Prsenter
1982	Mike Leigh: Making Plays	Self - Narrator, Interviewer

Directing, Writing & Producing

2024	Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly	Director
2022	imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs	Producer
2019	The Man Who Saw Too Much	Director, Producer
2018	Mel Brooks: Unwrapped	Producer, Director
2010	Van Gogh: Painted with Words	Producer
2008	Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony	Producer
2007	Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs	Director
1985	Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain	Producer
1984	Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984	Producer
1984	The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience	Producer
1984	The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel	Producer
1984	The Long Night of Lady Day	Producer
1984	The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert	Producer
1983	The GPO Story	Producer
1983	Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes	Producer
1982	A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton	Producer
1982	Mike Leigh: Making Plays	Producer
1982	The Orson Welles Story	Producer
1982	Desert Island Discs	Producer
1982	The Catherine Wheel	Producer
1981	Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...?	Producer
1981	Today Carshalton Beeches... Tomorrow Croydon	Producer
1981	Getting Away From Sidney	Producer
1980	Arena: Dire Straits	Producer
1980	Luck and Flaw	Producer
1980	Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood	Producer
1980	Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)	Producer
1980	Lene Lovich: Sleeping Beauty	Producer
1979	My Way	Producer
1978	"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist	Director
1975	David Bowie: Cracked Actor	Director, Writer, Producer
1974	Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show	Producer
1974	Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’s	Producer

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