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
5.9
Movie
Absolutely Anything
2015
7.0
TV
NOVA
1974
7.0
TV
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
7.3
Movie
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010
7.7
TV
W1A
2014
8.0
TV
Ideal
2005
7.5
TV
Mandy
2020
6.8
TV
Beautiful People
2008
3.8
TV
Live from Studio Five
2009
6.2
TV
imagineā¦
2003
6.4
Movie
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
7.0
TV
Timeshift
2002
Filmography(86)
86 titles across Movies & TV
9.0
Movie
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
2025
1.0
Movie
The Academy of Armando
2025
7.0
Movie
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
2024
8.3
Movie
Imagineā¦ Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024
7.0
Movie
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
10.0
Movie
imagineā¦ Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023
0
Movie
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
2023
0
TV
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022
7.0
TV
Remembersā¦
2022
5.0
Movie
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
0
Movie
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
0
Movie
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022
0
Movie
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
2021
0
Movie
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
2021
0
Movie
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
2020
7.5
TV
Mandy
2020
0
Movie
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
2019
0
Movie
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
2019
0
Movie
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
2019
0
Movie
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
2019
0
Movie
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
2018
0
Movie
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
2018
0
Movie
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
2018
6.4
Movie
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
0
Movie
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
2017
0
Movie
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
2017
0
Movie
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
2016
0
Movie
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
2016
0
Movie
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
2016
0
Movie
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
2016
0
Movie
One Night In 2012
2016
0
Movie
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
2015
0
Movie
Antony Gormley: Being Human
2015
0
Movie
Shylock's Ghost
2015
0
Movie
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
2015
5.9
Movie
Absolutely Anything
2015
9.0
Movie
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
0
Movie
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
2014
0
Movie
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014
0
Movie
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
2014
6.0
Movie
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014
7.7
TV
W1A
2014
0
Movie
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013
0
Movie
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
2013
0
Movie
Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013
0
Movie
Mini: A Life Revisited
2013
10.0
Movie
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
2013
8.0
Movie
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
2013
0
Movie
Goodbye Television Centre
2013
6.5
Movie
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012
0
Movie
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
2012
0
Movie
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
2012
8.0
Movie
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
0
Movie
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011
0
Movie
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
