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Alan Yentob

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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

The Land of Sometimes

Executive Producer

When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville

as Self

The Academy of Armando

as Self - Presenter

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

as Self - Interviewer

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

as Self - Interviewer

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

as Self - Presenter

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

as Self

imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester

as Self - presenter

In Conversation with Alan Yentob

as Self

Remembers…

as Self

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens

Cast

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

as Self - Presenter

Labi Siffre: This Is My Song

Cast

Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

as Presenter

Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting

as Self - Presenter

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

as Self - Presenter

Mandy

as Self

The Man Who Saw Too Much

Director

Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device

as Self - Presenter

Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is

as Self - Presenter

Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless

as Self - Presenter

Jo Brand: No Holds Barred

as Self - Presenter

George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?

as Self - Presenter

Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

as Self

Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons

as Self - Presenter

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

as Self - Presenter

Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room

as Self

Habaneros

Executive Producer

Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned

as Self

The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan

as Self

The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge

as Self - Presenter

A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James

as Self

Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself

as Self - Presenter

One Night In 2012

Cast

David Chipperfield: A Place to Be

as Self - Presenter

David Gilmour: Wider Horizons

Executive Producer

Antony Gormley: Being Human

as Self - Presenter

Shylock's Ghost

as Self - Presenter

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

as Self - Presenter

Absolutely Anything

as Man at Party (uncredited)

The One and Only Mike Leigh

as Self - Presenter

Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future

as Self - Presenter

BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M

as Self

Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca

as Self - Presenter

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

as Self - Presenter

W1A

as Self

Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?

as Self - Presenter

Hitler, the Tiger and Me

as Self - Presenter

Turning the Art World Inside Out

Cast

Mini: A Life Revisited

as Self - Presenter

Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins

as Self - Presenter

Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?

as Self

Goodbye Television Centre

as Self - Reporter

Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

as Self

Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me

as Self

Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story

Presenter

Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective

as Self

London: The Modern Babylon

Executive Producer

Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil

as Self - Presenter

Books: The Last Chapter?

as Self

Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman

as Self

The Trouble with Tolstoy

Cast

Ray Davies: Imaginary Man

as Self - Presenter

The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge

as Presenter

Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour

Other

The Seven Year Hitch

as Self

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

as Self - Narrator

Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles

as Self

The Year of Anish Kapoor

as Self - Presenter

Live from Studio Five

as Self

Richard Serra: Man of Steel

as Presenter

The Story Of The Guitar

Cast

Beautiful People

as Self

A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

as Self

Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain

as Presenter

Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony

Producer

How to Get on in the Art World

as Self - Presenter

Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure

as Self - Presenter

Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs

Director

Gilbert and George: No Surrender

as Self

A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin

as Self - Presenter

Sweet Home New Orleans

as Self - Presenter

Fantastic Mr. Dahl

as Self - Presenter

Ideal

as Alan Yentob

Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture

as Self

The World According to Parr

as Self - Prsenter

imagine…

as Self - Presenter

Timeshift

as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)

Operation Good Guys

Cast

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

as Self - Narrator

Behind The Screen

Cast

Open Air

Cast

The Real Buddy Holly Story

Executive Producer

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Executive Producer

Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain

Editor

Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984

Producer

The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience

Producer

Sunset People

Executive Producer

The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel

Producer

The Long Night of Lady Day

Producer

The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert

Producer

The GPO Story

Producer

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Producer

Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

Executive Producer

Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes

Producer

A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton

Producer

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

as Self - Narrator, Interviewer

The Orson Welles Story

Producer

Desert Island Discs

Producer

The Private Life of the Ford Cortina

Executive Producer

The Catherine Wheel

Producer

Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...?

Producer

Getting Away From Sidney

Producer

Arena: Dire Straits

Producer

Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood

Producer

Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)

Producer

My Way

Producer

"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist

Director

Arena

Executive Producer

David Bowie: Cracked Actor

Director

Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show

Producer

Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’s

Producer

NOVA

as Narrator

A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas

as Self

IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia Parker

Presenter