Alan Yentob
Acting
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.
As actor 87
NOVA
1974
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
Ideal
2005
Timeshift
2002
imagine…
2003
Open Air
1986
Remembers…
2022
W1A
2014
Mandy
2020
Absolutely Anything
2015
Beautiful People
2008
Operation Good Guys
1997
Behind The Screen
1988
Live from Studio Five
2009
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
The Academy of Armando
2025
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
2007
The Seven Year Hitch
2010
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
One Night In 2012
2016
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
2014
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
Krapp's Last Tape
2007
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
2004
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
2017
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
2021
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
2023
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
2009
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
2010
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
2020
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
2015
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
2014
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
2018
How to Get on in the Art World
2007
Mini: A Life Revisited
2013
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
2005
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
2013
The Story Of The Guitar
2008
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
2024
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
2006
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
2008
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
2019
Shylock's Ghost
2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
2016
Goodbye Television Centre
2013
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
2011
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
2017
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
2013
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
2007
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
2018
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
2019
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
2016
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
2008
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
2021
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
2019
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
2016
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
2013
Antony Gormley: Being Human
2015
The Year of Anish Kapoor
2009
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
2015
The World According to Parr
2003
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
2016
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
2025
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
2012
Sweet Home New Orleans
2006
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
2012
The Trouble with Tolstoy
2011
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
2019
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
2018
Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
2008
On the crew 55
Arena
1975
imagine…
2003
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
The Land of Sometimes
2026
Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs
2007
London: The Modern Babylon
2012
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
The Real Buddy Holly Story
1985
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024
The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience
1984
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
1980
The Orson Welles Story
1982
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
2007
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
1984
David Bowie: Cracked Actor
1975
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1982
Studs Terkel's Chicago
1985
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
Krapp's Last Tape
2007
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
1982
The Man Who Saw Too Much
2019
Sunset People
1984
Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story
2012
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’s
1974
Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)
1980
Today Carshalton Beeches... Tomorrow Croydon
1981
Arena: Dire Straits
1980
Luck and Flaw
1980
Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony
2008
The Long Night of Lady Day
1984
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
2010
David Gilmour: Wider Horizons
2015
Lene Lovich: Sleeping Beauty
1980
The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
1984
Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show
1974
Habaneros
2017
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
2010
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
2024
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
2008
"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
1978
My Way
1979
The Catherine Wheel
1982
Desert Island Discs
1982
Getting Away From Sidney
1981
IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia Parker
Mentioned in Dispatches
1980
Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984
1984
Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...?
1981
Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes
1983
The GPO Story
1983