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
2009
Arena
1975
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2008
Ideal
2009
imagine…
2003
Timeshift
2014
Open Air
1986
Remembers…
2024
Mandy
2024
W1A
2014
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
Absolutely Anything
2015

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
87
Directing
6
Writing
2
Producing
47
Editing
6
Art
1
Crew
4
2025
The Academy of Armando
as Self - Presenter
2025
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
as Self
2024
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
as Self - Interviewer
2024
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
as Self - Interviewer
2024
Mandy
as Self
2024
Remembers…
as Self
2023
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
as Self
2023
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
as Self - presenter
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
as Self - Presenter
2022
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
as Self - Presenter
2022
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
as Self
2022
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
as Self
2021
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
as Presenter
2021
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
as Self - Presenter
2020
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
as Self - Presenter
2019
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
as Self - Presenter
2019
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
as Self - Presenter
2019
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
as Self - Presenter
2019
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
as Self - Presenter
2018
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
as Self
2018
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
as Self - Presenter
2018
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
as Self - Presenter
2018
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
as Self - Presenter
2017
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
as Self
2017
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
as Self
2016
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
as Self
2016
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
as Self - Presenter
2016
One Night In 2012
2016
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
as Self
2016
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
as Self - Presenter
2015
Antony Gormley: Being Human
as Self - Presenter
2015
Shylock's Ghost
as Self - Presenter
2015
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
as Self - Presenter
2015
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
as Self - Presenter
2015
Absolutely Anything
as Man at Party (uncredited)
2014
The One and Only Mike Leigh
as Self - Presenter
2014
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
as Self - Presenter
2014
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
as Self
2014
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
as Self - Presenter
2014
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
as Self - Presenter
2014
Timeshift
as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
2014
W1A
as Self
2013
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
as Self - Presenter
2013
Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013
Mini: A Life Revisited
as Self - Presenter
2013
Goodbye Television Centre
as Self - Reporter
2013
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
as Self - Presenter
2013
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
as Self
2013
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
as Self - Presenter
2012
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
as Self
2012
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
as Self
2012
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
as Self - Presenter
2012
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
as Self
2011
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
as Self
2011
Books: The Last Chapter?
as Self
2011
The Trouble with Tolstoy
2010
The Seven Year Hitch
as Self
2010
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
as Self - Presenter
2010
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
as Presenter
2010
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
as Self - Narrator
2010
Live from Studio Five
as Self
2009
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
as Self
2009
The Year of Anish Kapoor
as Self - Presenter
2009
NOVA
as Narrator
2009
Beautiful People
as Self
2009
Ideal
as Alan Yentob
2008
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
as Self
2008
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
as Presenter
2008
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
as Presenter
2008
The Story Of The Guitar
2008
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self - Narrator
2007
How to Get on in the Art World
as Self - Presenter
2007
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
as Self
2007
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
as Self - Presenter
2007
Krapp's Last Tape
as Self (Introduction)
2006
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
as Self - Presenter
2006
Sweet Home New Orleans
as Self - Presenter
2005
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
as Self - Presenter
2004
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
as Self
2003
The World According to Parr
as Self - Prsenter
2003
imagine…
as Self - Presenter
1999
Operation Good Guys
1990
Behind The Screen
1986
Open Air
1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self - Narrator, Interviewer
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
as Self