Alan Yentob
Known for: Acting
Born: March 11, 1947
Died: May 24, 2025
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
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
2021
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
2016
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
2016
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
2009
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
2011
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
2012
Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013
The World According to Parr
2003
How to Get on in the Art World
2007
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
2008
Mini: A Life Revisited
2013
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
2008
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
2019
One Night In 2012
2016
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
2005
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
2017
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
2008
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
2015
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
2013
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
2006
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
2016
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
2019
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
2019
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
2013
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
2018
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
2020
Sweet Home New Orleans
2006
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
2021
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
2025
The Trouble with Tolstoy
2011
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
2007
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
2018
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
2013
Antony Gormley: Being Human
2015
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
2017
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
2004
Shylock's Ghost
2015
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
2024
Goodbye Television Centre
2013
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
2016
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
2015
The Year of Anish Kapoor
2009
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
2019
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
2010
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
2012
The Academy of Armando
2025
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
2014
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
2018
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
2014
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
2007
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
The Seven Year Hitch
2010
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010
Absolutely Anything
2015
Operation Good Guys
1997
The Story Of The Guitar
2008
Behind The Screen
1988
Live from Studio Five
2009
Open Air
1986
Timeshift
2002
NOVA
1974
Beautiful People
2008
imagine…
2003
W1A
2014
Ideal
2005
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022
Mandy
2020
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
Remembers…
2022