🎭 Actor
Alan Yentob
🎂 Born 11 March 1947 (age 78)✝ 24 May 2025📍 London, England, UK
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Directed
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.
Known For
Directed Films(6)
Full Filmography(60 films)
YearTitleRating
2015Absolutely Anything★ 5.92010Van Gogh: Painted with Words★ 7.32025The Academy of Armando★ 1.02024Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now★ 8.32018Mel Brooks: Unwrapped★ 6.42023imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter★ 7.01982Mike Leigh: Making Plays★ 8.02014Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar★ 6.02016One Night In 2012—2005Fantastic Mr. Dahl—2024Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly★ 7.02023imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me★ 10.02016A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James—2010The Seven Year Hitch—2009Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles—2022Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens★ 5.02012Mel Brooks Strikes Back!★ 6.52018Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar—2012Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil★ 8.02019Jo Brand: No Holds Barred—2013Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?—2022imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs—2014Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca—2014BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M—2017Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room—2013Hitler, the Tiger and Me—2013Mini: A Life Revisited—2013Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?★ 8.02016The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan—2010The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge—2022Labi Siffre: This Is My Song—2023imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester—2021Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting—2010Ray Davies: Imaginary Man—2007How to Get on in the Art World—2016Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself—2018Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons—2020Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling—2019Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless—2021Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life—2015Antony Gormley: Being Human—2015Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"—2012Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me—2014Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future—2003The World According to Parr—2008Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain—2025When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville★ 9.02015David Chipperfield: A Place to Be—2017Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned—2013Turning the Art World Inside Out—2007Gilbert and George: No Surrender—2013Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins★ 10.02019Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device—2011Books: The Last Chapter?—2012Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective—2009The Year of Anish Kapoor—2011Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman—2013Goodbye Television Centre—2006A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin—2016The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge—