Alan Yentob
ActingPersonal Info
gender
Male
birthday
March 11, 1947
died
May 24, 2025
place of birth
London, England, UK
total credits
50 movies
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
Filmography
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Absolutely Anything
The Academy of Armando
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
One Night In 2012
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
Mini: A Life Revisited
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
The Seven Year Hitch
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
Goodbye Television Centre
How to Get on in the Art World
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Books: The Last Chapter?
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
The World According to Parr
Antony Gormley: Being Human
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song