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Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob

Alan Yentob

Acting•Born March 11, 1947•Died May 24, 2025 (age 78)•London, England, UK

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

NOVA

1974•TV Series•
7.0
Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

1996•TV Series•
7.0
Remembers…

Remembers…

2022•TV Series•
7.0
Ideal

Ideal

2005•TV Series•
8.0
Absolutely Anything

Absolutely Anything

2015•Movie•
5.9
Timeshift

Timeshift

2002•TV Series•
7.0
W1A

W1A

2014•TV Series•
7.7
Mandy

Mandy

2020•TV Series•
7.6

Filmography

2025
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville

as Self

Movie
2025
The Academy of Armando

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2024
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

as Self - Interviewer

Movie
2024
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

as Self - Interviewer

Movie
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2023
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

as Self

Movie
2023
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester

as Self - presenter

Movie
2022
In Conversation with Alan Yentob

as Self

TV
2022
Remembers…

as Self

TV
2022
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
Movie
2022
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2022
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
Movie
2021
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

as Presenter

Movie
2021
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2020
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2020
Mandy

as Self

TV
2019
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2019
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2019
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2019
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2018
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2018
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

as Self

Movie
2018
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2018
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2017
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room

as Self

Movie
2017
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned

as Self

Movie
2016
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan

as Self

Movie
2016
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2016
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James

as Self

Movie
2016
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2016
One Night In 2012
Movie
2015
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2015
Antony Gormley: Being Human

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2015
Shylock's Ghost

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2015
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2015
Absolutely Anything

as Man at Party (uncredited)

Movie
2014
The One and Only Mike Leigh

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2014
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2014
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M

as Self

Movie
2014
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2014
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2014
W1A

as Self

TV
2013
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2013
Hitler, the Tiger and Me

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2013
Turning the Art World Inside Out
Movie
2013
Mini: A Life Revisited

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2013
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2013
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?

as Self

Movie
2013
Goodbye Television Centre

as Self - Reporter

Movie
2012
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

as Self

Movie
2012
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me

as Self

Movie
2012
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective

as Self

Movie
2012
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2011
Books: The Last Chapter?

as Self

Movie
2011
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman

as Self

Movie
2011
The Trouble with Tolstoy
Movie
2010
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2010
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge

as Presenter

Movie
2010
The Seven Year Hitch

as Self

Movie
2010
Van Gogh: Painted with Words

as Self - Narrator

Movie
2009
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles

as Self

Movie
2009
The Year of Anish Kapoor

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2009
Live from Studio Five

as Self

TV
2008
Richard Serra: Man of Steel

as Presenter

Movie
2008
The Story Of The Guitar
TV
2008
Beautiful People

as Self

TV
2008
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

as Self

Movie
2008
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain

as Presenter

Movie
2007
How to Get on in the Art World

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2007
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2007
Gilbert and George: No Surrender

as Self

Movie
2006
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2006
Sweet Home New Orleans

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2005
Fantastic Mr. Dahl

as Self - Presenter

Movie
2005
Ideal

as Alan Yentob

TV
2004
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture

as Self

Movie
2003
The World According to Parr

as Self - Prsenter

Movie
2003
imagine…

as Self - Presenter

TV
2002
Timeshift

as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)

TV
1997
Operation Good Guys
TV
1996
Never Mind the Buzzcocks

as Self - Narrator

TV
1988
Behind The Screen
TV
1986
Open Air
TV
1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays

as Self - Narrator, Interviewer

Movie
1974
NOVA

as Narrator

TV
—
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas

as Self

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayMarch 11, 1947
Day of DeathMay 24, 2025
Place of BirthLondon, England, UK
Popularity0.3