Personal Info
Birthday
March 11, 1947
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Alan Yentob
Biography
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.
Directed Movies (6)
Acting Filmography (74)
9.0
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
Movie2025
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1.0
The Academy of Armando
Movie2025
7.0
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
Movie2024
8.3
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
Movie2024
7.0
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
Movie2023
10.0
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
Movie2023
0.0
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
Movie2023
0.0
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
TV Series2022
7.0
Remembers…
TV Series2022
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5.0
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
Movie2022
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0.0
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Movie2022
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0.0
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
Movie2022
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Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
Movie2021
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0.0
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
Movie2021
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0.0
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
Movie2020
7.5
Mandy
TV Series2020
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0.0
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
Movie2019
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0.0
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
Movie2019
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0.0
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
Movie2019
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0.0
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
Movie2018
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0.0
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
Movie2018
6.4
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Movie2018
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0.0
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
Movie2017
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0.0
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
Movie2017
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The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
Movie2016
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The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
Movie2016
0.0
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
Movie2016
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Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
Movie2016
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0.0
One Night In 2012
Movie2016
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0.0
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
Movie2015
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0.0
Antony Gormley: Being Human
Movie2015
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0.0
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
Movie2015
5.9
Absolutely Anything
Movie2015
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0.0
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
Movie2014
0.0
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
Movie2014
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0.0
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
Movie2014
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6.0
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
Movie2014
7.7
W1A
TV Series2014
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0.0
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
Movie2013
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Hitler, the Tiger and Me
Movie2013
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0.0
Turning the Art World Inside Out
Movie2013
0.0
Mini: A Life Revisited
Movie2013
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10.0
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
Movie2013
8.0
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
Movie2013
0.0
Goodbye Television Centre
Movie2013
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6.5
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Movie2012
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0.0
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
Movie2012
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0.0
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
Movie2012
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8.0
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Movie2012
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0.0
Books: The Last Chapter?
Movie2011
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Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
Movie2011
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Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
Movie2010
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The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
Movie2010
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0.0
The Seven Year Hitch
Movie2010
7.3
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Movie2010
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0.0
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
Movie2009
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0.0
The Year of Anish Kapoor
Movie2009
3.7
Live from Studio Five
TV Series2009
0.0
The Story Of The Guitar
TV Series2008
6.8
Beautiful People
TV Series2008
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0.0
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
Movie2008
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0.0
How to Get on in the Art World
Movie2007
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0.0
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
Movie2007
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0.0
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
Movie2006
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0.0
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
Movie2005
8.0
Ideal
TV Series2005
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0.0
The World According to Parr
Movie2003
6.2
imagine…
TV Series2003
7.0
Timeshift
TV Series2002
6.8
Operation Good Guys
TV Series1997
7.0
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV Series1996
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8.0
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Movie1982
7.0
NOVA
TV Series1974
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0.0
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
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