Alan Yentob
Born March 11, 1947 · London, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Absolutely Anything
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
The Academy of Armando
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
More Movies
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
One Night In 2012
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
The Seven Year Hitch
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
Krapp's Last Tape
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
Mini: A Life Revisited
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
Books: The Last Chapter?
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
Goodbye Television Centre
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
Antony Gormley: Being Human
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
How to Get on in the Art World
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
Turning the Art World Inside Out
The World According to Parr
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
Unreleased
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
