Birthday

1947-03-11

Died

2025-05-24

Birthplace

London, England, UK

Gender

Male

Known For

Acting

Alan Yentob

No biography available

Acting Credits

Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

Presenter

Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

Self

The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan

Self

The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge

Self - Presenter

Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins

Self - Presenter

Antony Gormley: Being Human

Self - Presenter

Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned

Self

Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

Self

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

Self - Presenter

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens

Labi Siffre: This Is My Song

A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas

Self

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

Self

imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester

Self - presenter

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

Self - Presenter

Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles

Self

Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman

Self

Books: The Last Chapter?

Self

Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective

Self

Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture

Self

Turning the Art World Inside Out

The World According to Parr

Self - Prsenter

How to Get on in the Art World

Self - Presenter

A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

Self

Shylock's Ghost

Self - Presenter

Mini: A Life Revisited

Self - Presenter

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

Self - Interviewer

Richard Serra: Man of Steel

Presenter

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

Self - Interviewer

Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is

Self - Presenter

Goodbye Television Centre

Self - Reporter

One Night In 2012

A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James

Self

Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil

Self - Presenter

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

Self - Narrator, Interviewer

The One and Only Mike Leigh

Self - Presenter

Fantastic Mr. Dahl

Self - Presenter

Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room

Self

Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain

Presenter

Hitler, the Tiger and Me

Self - Presenter

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

Self - Presenter

A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin

Self - Presenter

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

Self - Presenter

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

Self - Presenter

Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself

Self - Presenter

Jo Brand: No Holds Barred

Self - Presenter

David Chipperfield: A Place to Be

Self - Presenter

The Year of Anish Kapoor

Self - Presenter

BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M

Self

Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless

Self - Presenter

Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?

Self

The Seven Year Hitch

Self

Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device

Self - Presenter

Ray Davies: Imaginary Man

Self - Presenter

Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons

Self - Presenter

The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge

Presenter

Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca

Self - Presenter

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

Self - Presenter

Sweet Home New Orleans

Self - Presenter

Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?

Self - Presenter

Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting

Self - Presenter

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Self - Narrator

Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me

Self

The Academy of Armando

Self - Presenter

When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville

Self

Gilbert and George: No Surrender

Self

Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future

Self - Presenter

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

Self - Presenter

The Trouble with Tolstoy

Operation Good Guys

The Story Of The Guitar

Behind The Screen

Behind The Screen

Live from Studio Five

Self

Open Air

Timeshift

Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)

NOVA

Narrator

Beautiful People

Self

imagine…

Self - Presenter

W1A

Self

Ideal

Alan Yentob

In Conversation with Alan Yentob

Self

Mandy

Self

Film Credits

Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony

Producer

The GPO Story

Producer

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

Producer

Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984

Producer

The Long Night of Lady Day

Producer

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens

Presenter

David Bowie: Cracked Actor

Director

Getting Away From Sidney

Producer

Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs

Director

Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

Executive Producer

Desert Island Discs

Producer

Arena: Dire Straits

Producer

Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour

Other

Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour

Editor

Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...?

Producer

Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes

Producer

Ray Davies: Imaginary Man

Editor

The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience

Producer

The Real Buddy Holly Story

Executive Producer

London: The Modern Babylon

Executive Producer

David Gilmour: Wider Horizons

Executive Producer

Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’s

Producer

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

Executive Producer

Richard Serra: Man of Steel

Executive Producer

Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show

Producer

Sunset People

Executive Producer

David Bowie: Cracked Actor

Producer

David Bowie: Cracked Actor

Writer

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

Editor

Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story

Presenter

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

Producer

Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story

Executive Producer

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

Producer

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Executive Producer

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Adaptation

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Producer

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

Producer

The Catherine Wheel

Producer

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

Director

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

Director

The Man Who Saw Too Much

Director

The Man Who Saw Too Much

Producer

The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert

Producer

My Way

Producer

Habaneros

Executive Producer

The Private Life of the Ford Cortina

Executive Producer

The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel

Producer

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

Producer

Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood

Producer

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

Editor

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

Director

The Land of Sometimes

Executive Producer

The Orson Welles Story

Producer

IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia Parker

Presenter

IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia Parker

Editor

Arena

Executive Producer

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Producer

imagine…

Editor