Alan YentobActingMarch 11, 1947— May 24, 2025(78 years old)London, England, UKPopularity: 0IMDbBiographyAlan 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 Guys5.0Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It HappensThe Story Of The GuitarOne Night In 2012Tom Stoppard: A Charmed LifePresenterThe Weird World of Eadweard MuybridgePresenterOliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the BrainPresenterTurning the Art World Inside OutLabi Siffre: This Is My Song7.2ArenaExecutive 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 - Interviewer10.0imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and MeSelf7.0imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, BitterSelf - Presenterimagine... The Factory: Made in ManchesterSelf - presenter5.0Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happensimagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for GrabsSelf - PresenterLabi Siffre: This Is My SongTom Stoppard: A Charmed LifePresenterKazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and ForgettingSelf - PresenterMarina Abramovic: The Ugly DucklingSelf - Presenter2010s7.0The Man Who Saw Too MuchDirectorJo Brand: No Holds BarredSelf - PresenterOlafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare DeviceSelf - PresenterEdna O'Brien: Fearful... and FearlessSelf - Presenter6.4Mel Brooks: UnwrappedSelf - PresenterHockney, The Queen and the Royal PeculiarSelfPhilip Pullman: Angels and DaemonsSelf - Presenter8.0HabanerosExecutive ProducerMargaret Atwood: You Have Been WarnedSelfRachel Whiteread: Ghost in the RoomSelfA Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon JamesSelfOne Night In 2012Georgia O'Keeffe: By MyselfSelf - PresenterThe Art World's Prankster: Maurizio CattelanSelfThe Triumphs and Laments of William KentridgeSelf - Presenter5.9Absolutely AnythingMan at Party (uncredited)Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"Self - Presenter8.2David Gilmour: Wider HorizonsExecutive ProducerAntony Gormley: Being HumanSelf - PresenterDavid Chipperfield: A Place to BeSelf - PresenterBBC Imagine: The Divine Miss MSelf6.0Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather SimilarSelf - PresenterRio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOcaSelf - PresenterAnselm Kiefer: Remembering the FutureSelf - PresenterWho's Afraid of Machiavelli?Self - Presenter8.0Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?SelfGoodbye Television CentreSelf - ReporterMini: A Life RevisitedSelf - Presenter10.0Zaha Hadid... Who Dares WinsSelf - PresenterHitler, the Tiger and MeSelf - PresenterTurning the Art World Inside Out6.4London: The Modern BabylonExecutive Producer8.0Ken Russell: A Bit of a DevilSelf - Presenter6.5Mel Brooks Strikes Back!SelfDo or Die: Lang Lang's StoryExecutive ProducerIan Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing DetectiveSelfJeanette Winterson: My Monster and MeSelfGrayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown CraftsmanSelfBooks: The Last Chapter?Self7.3Van Gogh: Painted with WordsSelf - NarratorThe Seven Year HitchSelfThe Weird World of Eadweard MuybridgePresenter6.5Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or FavourOtherRay Davies: Imaginary ManSelf - Presenter2000sScrabble: A Night on the TilesSelfThe Year of Anish KapoorSelf - Presenter8.5Trip to Asia: The Quest for HarmonyProducerOliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the BrainPresenterGilbert and George: No SurrenderSelfHow to Get on in the Art WorldSelf - PresenterYusuf Islam: A Few Good SongsDirectorA 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 Everly Brothers Reunion ConcertProducer7.0The Life and Times of Don Luis BuñuelProducerFela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984Producer7.8Bette Davis: The Benevolent VolcanoExecutive Producer9.0Kurt Vonnegut: So It GoesProducerThe GPO StoryProducer8.0Mike Leigh: Making PlaysSelf - Narrator, InterviewerDesert Island DiscsProducer8.0The Catherine WheelProducerThe Private Life of the Ford CortinaExecutive ProducerHave You Seen The Mona Lisa...?ProducerProfiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria WoodProducer7.0Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)Producer8.0Arena: 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