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