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