Alan Yentob

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

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Ideal

Remembers…

Timeshift

Absolutely Anything

W1A

imagine…

All Movies (71)

• When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville2025 · as Self
• The Academy of Armando2025 · as Self - Presenter
• Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly2024 · as Self - Interviewer
• Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now2024 · as Self - Interviewer
• imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter2023 · as Self - Presenter
• imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me2023 · as Self
• imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester2023 · as Self - presenter
• Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens2022
• imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs2022 · as Self - Presenter
• Labi Siffre: This Is My Song2022
• Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life2021 · as Presenter
• Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting2021 · as Self - Presenter
• Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling2020 · as Self - Presenter
• Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device2019 · as Self - Presenter
• Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is2019 · as Self - Presenter
• Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless2019 · as Self - Presenter
• Jo Brand: No Holds Barred2019 · as Self - Presenter
• George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?2018 · as Self - Presenter
• Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar2018 · as Self
• Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons2018 · as Self - Presenter
• Mel Brooks: Unwrapped2018 · as Self - Presenter
• Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room2017 · as Self
• Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned2017 · as Self
• The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan2016 · as Self
• The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge2016 · as Self - Presenter
• A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James2016 · as Self
• Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself2016 · as Self - Presenter
• One Night In 20122016
• David Chipperfield: A Place to Be2015 · as Self - Presenter
• Antony Gormley: Being Human2015 · as Self - Presenter
• Shylock's Ghost2015 · as Self - Presenter
• Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"2015 · as Self - Presenter
• Absolutely Anything2015 · as Man at Party (uncredited)
• The One and Only Mike Leigh2014 · as Self - Presenter
• Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future2014 · as Self - Presenter
• BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M2014 · as Self
• Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca2014 · as Self - Presenter
• Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar2014 · as Self - Presenter
• Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?2013 · as Self - Presenter
• Hitler, the Tiger and Me2013 · as Self - Presenter
• Turning the Art World Inside Out2013
• Mini: A Life Revisited2013 · as Self - Presenter
• Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins2013 · as Self - Presenter
• Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?2013 · as Self
• Goodbye Television Centre2013 · as Self - Reporter
• Mel Brooks Strikes Back!2012 · as Self
• Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me2012 · as Self
• Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective2012 · as Self
• Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil2012 · as Self - Presenter
• Books: The Last Chapter?2011 · as Self
• Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman2011 · as Self
• The Trouble with Tolstoy2011
• Ray Davies: Imaginary Man2010 · as Self - Presenter
• The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge2010 · as Presenter
• The Seven Year Hitch2010 · as Self
• Van Gogh: Painted with Words2010 · as Self - Narrator
• Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles2009 · as Self
• The Year of Anish Kapoor2009 · as Self - Presenter
• Richard Serra: Man of Steel2008 · as Presenter
• A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami2008 · as Self
• Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain2008 · as Presenter
• How to Get on in the Art World2007 · as Self - Presenter
• Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure2007 · as Self - Presenter
• Gilbert and George: No Surrender2007 · as Self
• A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin2006 · as Self - Presenter
• Sweet Home New Orleans2006 · as Self - Presenter
• Fantastic Mr. Dahl2005 · as Self - Presenter
• Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture2004 · as Self
• The World According to Parr2003 · as Self - Prsenter
• Mike Leigh: Making Plays1982 · as Self - Narrator, Interviewer
• A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas— · as Self

All TV Shows (15)

• In Conversation with Alan Yentob2022 · as Self
• Remembers…2022 · as Self
• Mandy2020 · as Self
• W1A2014 · as Self
• Live from Studio Five2009 · as Self
• The Story Of The Guitar2008
• Beautiful People2008 · as Self
• Ideal2005 · as Alan Yentob
• imagine…2003 · as Self - Presenter
• Timeshift2002 · as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
• Operation Good Guys1997
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks1996 · as Self - Narrator
• Behind The Screen1988
• Open Air1986
• NOVA1974 · as Narrator