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.

Filmography

• 2026The Land of Sometimes — Executive Producer, In Memory Of
• 2024Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now — Self - Interviewer, Executive Producer, Editor
• 2024Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly — Self - Interviewer, Director
• 2022Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens — Self, Presenter
• 2022Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
• 2022imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs — Self - Presenter, Producer
• 2021Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life — Presenter
• 2019The Man Who Saw Too Much — Producer, Director
• 2018Mel Brooks: Unwrapped — Self - Presenter, Producer, Director
• 2017Habaneros — Executive Producer
• 2016One Night In 2012
• 2015Absolutely Anything — Man at Party (uncredited)
• 2015David Gilmour: Wider Horizons — Executive Producer
• 2013Turning the Art World Inside Out
• 2012Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story — Presenter, Executive Producer
• 2012London: The Modern Babylon — Executive Producer
• 2011The Trouble with Tolstoy
• 2010Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour — Other, Editor
• 2010Ray Davies: Imaginary Man — Self - Presenter, Editor
• 2010The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge — Presenter
• 2010Van Gogh: Painted with Words — Self - Narrator, Adaptation, Producer
• 2008Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain — Presenter
• 2008Richard Serra: Man of Steel — Presenter, Executive Producer
• The Story Of The Guitar
• 2008Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony — Producer
• 2007Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure — Self - Presenter, Executive Producer
• 2007Krapp's Last Tape — Self (Introduction), Executive Producer
• 2007Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs — Director
• Ideal — Alan Yentob
• imagine… — Self - Presenter, Editor
• Timeshift — Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
• Operation Good Guys
• Behind The Screen
• Open Air
• 1985Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain — Editor, Producer
• 1985Studs Terkel's Chicago — Executive Producer
• 1985The Real Buddy Holly Story — Executive Producer
• 1984Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984 — Producer
• 1984Sunset People — Executive Producer
• 1984The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert — Producer
• 1984The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience — Producer
• 1984The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel — Producer
• 1984The Long Night of Lady Day — Producer
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet — Producer
• 1983Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano — Executive Producer
• 1983Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes — Producer
• 1983The GPO Story — Producer
• 1982A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton — Producer
• 1982Desert Island Discs — Producer
• 1982Mike Leigh: Making Plays — Self - Narrator, Interviewer, Producer
• 1982The Catherine Wheel — Producer
• 1982The Orson Welles Story — Producer
• 1982The Private Life of the Ford Cortina — Executive Producer
• 1981Getting Away From Sidney — Producer
• 1981Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...? — Producer
• 1981Today Carshalton Beeches... Tomorrow Croydon — Producer
• 1980Arena: Dire Straits — Producer
• 1980Lene Lovich: Sleeping Beauty — Producer
• 1980Luck and Flaw — Producer
• 1980Mentioned in Dispatches — Executive Producer
• 1980Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood — Producer
• 1980Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone) — Producer
• 1979My Way — Producer
• 1978"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist — Director
• Arena — Executive Producer
• 1975David Bowie: Cracked Actor — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1974Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’s — Producer
• 1974Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show — Producer
• NOVA — Narrator
• IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia Parker — Presenter, Editor

Appearances as themselves (60)

• 2025The Academy of Armando — Self - Presenter
• 2025When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville — Self
• 2023imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter — Self - Presenter
• 2023imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester — Self - presenter
• 2023imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me — Self
• In Conversation with Alan Yentob — Self
• Remembers… — Self
• 2021Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting — Self - Presenter
• Mandy — Self
• 2020Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling — Self - Presenter
• 2019Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless — Self - Presenter
• 2019Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is — Self - Presenter
• 2019Jo Brand: No Holds Barred — Self - Presenter
• 2019Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device — Self - Presenter
• 2018George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? — Self - Presenter
• 2018Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar — Self
• 2018Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons — Self - Presenter
• 2017Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned — Self
• 2017Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room — Self
• 2016A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James — Self
• 2016Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself — Self - Presenter
• 2016The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan — Self
• 2016The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge — Self - Presenter
• 2015Antony Gormley: Being Human — Self - Presenter
• 2015David Chipperfield: A Place to Be — Self - Presenter
• 2015Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?" — Self - Presenter
• 2015Shylock's Ghost — Self - Presenter
• 2014Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future — Self - Presenter
• 2014BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M — Self
• 2014Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar — Self - Presenter
• 2014Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca — Self - Presenter
• 2014The One and Only Mike Leigh — Self - Presenter
• W1A — Self
• 2013Goodbye Television Centre — Self - Reporter
• 2013Hitler, the Tiger and Me — Self - Presenter
• 2013Mini: A Life Revisited — Self - Presenter
• 2013Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures? — Self
• 2013Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? — Self - Presenter
• 2013Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins — Self - Presenter
• 2012Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective — Self
• 2012Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me — Self
• 2012Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil — Self - Presenter
• 2012Mel Brooks Strikes Back! — Self
• 2011Books: The Last Chapter? — Self
• 2011Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman — Self
• 2010The Seven Year Hitch — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• 2009Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles — Self
• 2009The Year of Anish Kapoor — Self - Presenter
• 2008A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami — Self
• Beautiful People — Self
• 2007Gilbert and George: No Surrender — Self
• 2007How to Get on in the Art World — Self - Presenter
• 2006A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin — Self - Presenter
• 2006Sweet Home New Orleans — Self - Presenter
• 2005Fantastic Mr. Dahl — Self - Presenter
• 2004Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture — Self
• 2003The World According to Parr — Self - Prsenter
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Self - Narrator
• A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas — Self