Alan YentobActingMarch 11, 1947— May 24, 2025(78 years old)London, England, UKPopularity: 1IMDbBiographyAlan 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 For7.0NOVANarrator8.0IdealAlan Yentob6.8Operation Good GuysOne Night In 2012The Story Of The Guitar5.0Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It HappensLabi Siffre: This Is My SongThe Weird World of Eadweard MuybridgePresenterTom Stoppard: A Charmed LifePresenterOliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the BrainPresenterTurning the Art World Inside Out7.2ArenaExecutive ProducerPhotos of Alan YentobFilmographyMovies104TV Shows12AllCast71Crew41Browse All2020s1.0The Academy of ArmandoSelf - Presenter9.0When Alan Yentob Met Jenny SavilleSelf8.3Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and NowSelf - Interviewer7.0Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass DarklySelf - Interviewer7.0imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, BitterSelf - Presenter10.0imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and MeSelfimagine... The Factory: Made in ManchesterSelf - presenter5.0Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It HappensLabi Siffre: This Is My Songimagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for GrabsSelf - PresenterKazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and ForgettingSelf - PresenterTom Stoppard: A Charmed LifePresenterMarina Abramovic: The Ugly DucklingSelf - Presenter2010s7.0The Man Who Saw Too MuchDirectorJo Brand: No Holds BarredSelf - PresenterEdna O'Brien: Fearful... and FearlessSelf - PresenterOlafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare DeviceSelf - Presenter6.4Mel Brooks: UnwrappedSelf - PresenterHockney, The Queen and the Royal PeculiarSelfPhilip Pullman: Angels and DaemonsSelf - PresenterRachel Whiteread: Ghost in the RoomSelf8.0HabanerosExecutive ProducerMargaret Atwood: You Have Been WarnedSelfOne Night In 2012A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon JamesSelfGeorgia O'Keeffe: By MyselfSelf - PresenterThe Art World's Prankster: Maurizio CattelanSelfThe Triumphs and Laments of William KentridgeSelf - Presenter5.9Absolutely AnythingMan at Party (uncredited)8.2David Gilmour: Wider HorizonsExecutive ProducerFrank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"Self - PresenterDavid Chipperfield: A Place to BeSelf - PresenterAntony Gormley: Being HumanSelf - Presenter6.0Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather SimilarSelf - PresenterBBC Imagine: The Divine Miss MSelfRio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOcaSelf - PresenterAnselm Kiefer: Remembering the FutureSelf - PresenterWho's Afraid of Machiavelli?Self - PresenterHitler, the Tiger and MeSelf - PresenterMini: A Life RevisitedSelf - Presenter8.0Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?SelfGoodbye Television CentreSelf - ReporterTurning the Art World Inside Out10.0Zaha Hadid... Who Dares WinsSelf - Presenter6.4London: The Modern BabylonExecutive ProducerDo or Die: Lang Lang's StoryExecutive Producer8.0Ken Russell: A Bit of a DevilSelf - Presenter6.5Mel Brooks Strikes Back!SelfJeanette Winterson: My Monster and MeSelfIan Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing DetectiveSelfBooks: The Last Chapter?SelfGrayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown CraftsmanSelf7.3Van Gogh: Painted with WordsSelf - NarratorThe Seven Year HitchSelfThe Weird World of Eadweard MuybridgePresenterRay Davies: Imaginary ManSelf - Presenter6.5Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or FavourOther2000sScrabble: A Night on the TilesSelfThe Year of Anish KapoorSelf - Presenter8.5Trip to Asia: The Quest for HarmonyProducerOliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the BrainPresenterYusuf Islam: A Few Good SongsDirectorHow to Get on in the Art WorldSelf - PresenterGilbert and George: No SurrenderSelfA Picture of the Painter Howard HodgkinSelf - PresenterFantastic Mr. DahlSelf - PresenterThe World According to ParrSelf - Prsenter1980s6.5The Real Buddy Holly StoryExecutive Producer9.0Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help BritainProducerStuds Terkel's ChicagoExecutive Producer6.0The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and ExperienceProducer8.0Sunset PeopleExecutive Producer7.0The Life and Times of Don Luis BuñuelProducer7.0The Everly Brothers Reunion ConcertProducerFela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984Producer7.8Bette Davis: The Benevolent VolcanoExecutive Producer9.0Kurt Vonnegut: So It GoesProducerThe GPO StoryProducer8.0Mike Leigh: Making PlaysSelf - Narrator, InterviewerThe Private Life of the Ford CortinaExecutive ProducerDesert Island DiscsProducer8.0The Catherine WheelProducerHave You Seen The Mona Lisa...?Producer7.0Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)ProducerProfiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria WoodProducer8.0Arena: Dire StraitsProducer1970sMy WayProducer6.0"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed SurrealistDirector7.6David Bowie: Cracked ActorDirector8.0Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’sProducerElla Fitzgerald's Other ShowProducerTBAA Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las VegasSelf
