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Alan Yentob

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1947-03-11 (77 years old)

Biography

Alan Yentob (born 11 March 1947) is a retired British television executive and presenter. He has held senior roles at the BBC including head of music and arts, controller of BBC1 and controller of BBC2. He stepped down as the BBC's creative director in December 2015, and was chairman of the board of trustees of the charity Kids Company from 2003 until its collapse in 2015.

Filmography

all 111

Movies 94

self 64

Producer 30

TV Shows 17

Director 3

Narrator 2

Alan Yentob

Biography

Filmography

all 111

Movies 94

self 64

Producer 30

TV Shows 17

Director 3

Narrator 2

Writer 1

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter (2023)

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me (2023)

imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester (2023)

imagine... Stephen Frears: Director for Hire (2023)

In Conversation with Alan Yentob (2022)

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens (2022)

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs (2022)

Labi Siffre: This Is My Song (2022)

Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life (2021)

Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting (2021)

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling (2020)

The Man Who Saw Too Much (2019)

Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device (2019)

Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless (2019)

Jo Brand: No Holds Barred (2019)

Tracey Emin: Where Do You Draw the Line? (2018)

Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar (2018)

Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons (2018)

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped (2018)

Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room (2017)

Habaneros (2017)

Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned (2017)

The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan (2016)

The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge (2016)

The Seven Killings of Marlon James (2016)

Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself (2016)

One Night In 2012 (2016)

David Chipperfield: A Place to Be (2015)

David Gilmour: Wider Horizons (2015)

Antony Gormley: Being Human (2015)

Shylock's Ghost (2015)

Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?" (2015)

The One and Only Mike Leigh (2014)

BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M (2014)

Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca (2014)

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar (2014)

Philip Roth Unleashed (2014)

W1A (2014)

The Vivian Maier Mystery (2013)

Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? (2013)

Hitler, the Tiger and Me (2013)

Turning the Art World Inside Out (2013)

Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins (2013)

Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures? (2013)

Mel Brooks Strikes Back! (2012)

Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective (2012)

London: The Modern Babylon (2012)

Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil (2012)

Books: The Last Chapter? (2011)

Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman (2011)

America in Primetime (2011)

The Trouble with Tolstoy (2011)

Ray Davies: Imaginary Man (2010)

The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge (2010)

Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour (2010)

The Seven Year Hitch (2010)

Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010)

Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles (2009)

The Year of Anish Kapoor (2009)

Live from Studio Five (2009)

David Hockney: A Bigger Picture (2009)

The Story Of The Guitar (2008)

Beautiful People (2008)

A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami (2008)

Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain (2008)

Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony (2008)

How to Get on in the Art World (2007)

Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs (2007)

A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin (2006)

Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1947-03-11 (77 years old)

Birth Place
London, United Kingdom

Citizenships
United Kingdom