Alan Yentob

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 112

Gender Male

Birthday March 11, 1947 (78 years old)

Place of Birth London, England, UK

Also Known As

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Alan Yentob

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Known For

Acting

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as Self

2025

as Self - Presenter

2024		Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly as Self - Interviewer
2024		Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now as Interviewer

2023		imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter as Self - presenter
2023		imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me as Self
2023		imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester as Self - presenter

2022		In Conversation with Alan Yentob (2 episodes) as Self
2022		Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022		imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs as Presenter
2022		Labi Siffre: This Is My Song

2021		Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life as Presenter
2021		Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting as Self - Presenter

2020

as Self - Presenter

2019		Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device as Self - Presenter
2019		Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is as Self - Presenter
2019		Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless as Self - Presenter
2019		Jo Brand: No Holds Barred as Self - Presenter

2018		Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar as Self
2018		Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons as Self - Presenter
2018		Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Self - Presenter

2017		Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room as Self
2017		Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned as Self

2016		The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan as Self
2016		The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge as Self - Presenter
2016		The Seven Killings of Marlon James as Self
2016		Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself as Self - Presenter
2016		One Night In 2012

2015		David Chipperfield: A Place to Be as Self - Presenter
2015		Antony Gormley: Being Human as Self - Presenter
2015		Shylock's Ghost as Self - Presenter
2015		Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?" as Self - Presenter

2014		The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self - Presenter
2014		BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M as Self
2014		Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca as Self - Presenter
2014		Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar as Self - Presenter
2014		W1A (2 episodes) as Self

2013		Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? as Self - Presenter
2013		Hitler, the Tiger and Me as Self - Presenter
2013		Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013		Mini: A Life Revisited as Self - Presenter
2013		Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins as Self - Presenter
2013		Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures? as Self
2013		Goodbye Television Centre as Self - Reporter

2012		Mel Brooks Strikes Back! as Self
2012		Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me as Self
2012		Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective as Self
2012		Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil as Self - Presenter

2011		Books: The Last Chapter? as Self
2011		Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman as Self

2010		Ray Davies: Imaginary Man as Self - Presenter
2010		The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge as Presenter
2010		The Seven Year Hitch as Self
2010		Van Gogh: Painted with Words as Self - Narrator

2009		Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles as Self
2009		The Year of Anish Kapoor as Self - Presenter
2009		Live from Studio Five (1 episode) as Self

2008		Richard Serra: Man of Steel as Presenter
2008		The Story Of The Guitar (3 episodes)
2008		Beautiful People (1 episode) as Self
2008		A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami as Self
2008		Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain as Presenter

2007		How to Get on in the Art World as Self - Presenter
2007		A Bucket O' French and Saunders (1 episode)

2006		A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin as Self - Presenter
2006		Sweet Home New Orleans as Self - Presenter

2005		Fantastic Mr. Dahl as Self - Presenter
2005		Ideal (1 episode) as Alan Yentob

2004

as Self

2003		The World According to Parr as Self - Prsenter
2003		imagine… (245 episodes) as Self - Presenter

2002

(1 episode) as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)

1997

(1 episode)

1988

(1 episode)

1986

(1 episode)

1982

as Self - Narrator, Interviewer

1974

(1 episode) as Narrator

Production

2024

… Executive Producer

2022

… Producer

2019

… Producer

2018

… Producer

2017

… Executive Producer

2015

… Executive Producer

2012		Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story … Executive Producer
2012		London: The Modern Babylon … Executive Producer

2010

… Producer

2008		Richard Serra: Man of Steel … Executive Producer
2008		Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony … Producer

1985		The Real Buddy Holly Story … Executive Producer
1985		Studs Terkel's Chicago … Executive Producer
1985		Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain … Producer

1984		Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984 … Producer
1984		The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience … Producer
1984		Sunset People … Executive Producer
1984		The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel … Producer
1984		The Long Night of Lady Day … Producer
1984		The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert … Producer

1983		The GPO Story … Producer
1983		Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (38 episodes) … Producer
1983		Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano … Executive Producer
1983		Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes … Producer

1982		Mike Leigh: Making Plays … Producer
1982		Desert Island Discs … Producer
1982		The Private Life of the Ford Cortina … Executive Producer
1982		The Catherine Wheel … Producer

1981		Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...? … Producer
1981		Getting Away From Sidney … Producer

1980		Arena: Dire Straits … Producer
1980		Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood … Producer
1980		Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone) … Producer

1979

… Producer

1975		Arena (187 episodes) … Executive Producer (188 episodes) … Producer
1975		Cracked Actor … Producer

1974		Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show … Producer
1974		Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scotts … Producer

Directing

2019

… Director

2018

… Director

2007

… Director

1978

… Director

1975

… Director

Editing

2010		Ray Davies: Imaginary Man … Editor
2010		Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour … Editor

2003

(8 episodes) … Editor

1985

… Editor

Crew

2022

… Presenter

2012

… Presenter

Writing

2010

… Adaptation

1975

… Writer

Art

2010

… Other

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