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Alan Yentob

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Alan Yentob

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

Mar 11, 1947 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Biography

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Known For

Acting
2025The Academy of ArmandoSelf - Presenter
2025When Alan Yentob Met Jenny SavilleSelf
2024Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and NowSelf - Interviewer
2024Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass DarklySelf - Interviewer
2023imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and MeSelf
2023imagine... The Factory: Made in ManchesterSelf - presenter
2023imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, BitterSelf - Presenter
2022imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for GrabsSelf - Presenter
2022Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022In Conversation with Alan YentobSelf
2022Remembers…Self
2021Tom Stoppard: A Charmed LifePresenter
2021Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and ForgettingSelf - Presenter
2020Marina Abramovic: The Ugly DucklingSelf - Presenter
2020MandySelf
2019Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It IsSelf - Presenter
2019Jo Brand: No Holds BarredSelf - Presenter
2019Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and FearlessSelf - Presenter
2019Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare DeviceSelf - Presenter
2018Hockney, The Queen and the Royal PeculiarSelf
2018Mel Brooks: UnwrappedSelf - Presenter
2018Philip Pullman: Angels and DaemonsSelf - Presenter
2018George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?Self - Presenter
2017Margaret Atwood: You Have Been WarnedSelf
2017Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the RoomSelf
2016The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio CattelanSelf
2016The Triumphs and Laments of William KentridgeSelf - Presenter
2016One Night In 2012
2016A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon JamesSelf
2016Georgia O'Keeffe: By MyselfSelf - Presenter
2015Antony Gormley: Being HumanSelf - Presenter
2015Shylock's GhostSelf - Presenter
2015Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"Self - Presenter
2015David Chipperfield: A Place to BeSelf - Presenter
2014The One and Only Mike LeighSelf - Presenter
2014Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather SimilarSelf - Presenter
2014BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss MSelf
2014Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOcaSelf - Presenter
2014Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the FutureSelf - Presenter
2014W1ASelf
2013Zaha Hadid... Who Dares WinsSelf - Presenter
2013Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013Mini: A Life RevisitedSelf - Presenter
2013Goodbye Television CentreSelf - Reporter
2013Hitler, the Tiger and MeSelf - Presenter
2013Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?Self
2013Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?Self - Presenter
2012Mel Brooks Strikes Back!Self
2012Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing DetectiveSelf
2012Ken Russell: A Bit of a DevilSelf - Presenter
2012Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and MeSelf
2011Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown CraftsmanSelf
2011Books: The Last Chapter?Self
2011The Trouble with Tolstoy
2010The Seven Year HitchSelf
2010Ray Davies: Imaginary ManSelf - Presenter
2010The Weird World of Eadweard MuybridgePresenter
2010Van Gogh: Painted with WordsSelf - Narrator
2009Scrabble: A Night on the TilesSelf
2009The Year of Anish KapoorSelf - Presenter
2009Live from Studio FiveSelf
2008A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki MurakamiSelf
2008Richard Serra: Man of SteelPresenter
2008Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the BrainPresenter
2008The Story Of The Guitar
2008Beautiful PeopleSelf
2007How to Get on in the Art WorldSelf - Presenter
2007Gilbert and George: No SurrenderSelf
2007Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent AdventureSelf - Presenter
2006A Picture of the Painter Howard HodgkinSelf - Presenter
2006Sweet Home New OrleansSelf - Presenter
2005Fantastic Mr. DahlSelf - Presenter
2005IdealAlan Yentob
2004Arthur Miller: Finishing the PictureSelf
2003The World According to ParrSelf - Prsenter
2003imagine…Self - Presenter
2002TimeshiftSelf - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
1997Operation Good Guys
1996Never Mind the BuzzcocksSelf - Narrator
1988Behind The Screen
1986Open Air
1982Mike Leigh: Making PlaysSelf - Narrator, Interviewer
1974NOVANarrator
-A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las VegasSelf
Production
2026The Land of SometimesExecutive Producer
2024Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and NowExecutive Producer
2022imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for GrabsProducer
2019The Man Who Saw Too MuchProducer
2018Mel Brooks: UnwrappedProducer
2017HabanerosExecutive Producer
2015David Gilmour: Wider HorizonsExecutive Producer
2012London: The Modern BabylonExecutive Producer
2012Do or Die: Lang Lang's StoryExecutive Producer
2010Van Gogh: Painted with WordsProducer
2008Trip to Asia: The Quest for HarmonyProducer
2008Richard Serra: Man of SteelExecutive Producer
2007Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent AdventureExecutive Producer
1985The Real Buddy Holly StoryExecutive Producer
1985Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help BritainProducer
1985Studs Terkel's ChicagoExecutive Producer
1984Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984Producer
1984The Long Night of Lady DayProducer
1984The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and ExperienceProducer
1984Sunset PeopleExecutive Producer
1984The Everly Brothers Reunion ConcertProducer
1984The Life and Times of Don Luis BuñuelProducer
1983The GPO StoryProducer
1983Bette Davis: The Benevolent VolcanoExecutive Producer
1983Kurt Vonnegut: So It GoesProducer
1983Auf Wiedersehen, PetProducer
1982Desert Island DiscsProducer
1982The Catherine WheelProducer
1982The Private Life of the Ford CortinaExecutive Producer
1982Mike Leigh: Making PlaysProducer
1982The Orson Welles StoryProducer
1982A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe OrtonProducer
1981Getting Away From SidneyProducer
1981Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...?Producer
1980Arena: Dire StraitsProducer
1980Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)Producer
1980Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria WoodProducer
1979My WayProducer
1975David Bowie: Cracked ActorProducer
1975ArenaExecutive Producer
1974Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’sProducer
1974Ella Fitzgerald's Other ShowProducer
Directing
2024Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass DarklyDirector
2019The Man Who Saw Too MuchDirector
2018Mel Brooks: UnwrappedDirector
2007Yusuf Islam: A Few Good SongsDirector
1978"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed SurrealistDirector
1975David Bowie: Cracked ActorDirector
Writing
2010Van Gogh: Painted with WordsAdaptation
1975David Bowie: Cracked ActorWriter
Crew
2022Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It HappensPresenter
2012Do or Die: Lang Lang's StoryPresenter
-IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia ParkerPresenter