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Alan Yentob
Acting
11 Mar 1947
† 24 May 2025
London, England, UK
Biography
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.
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Alan Yentob's Movies
59%
Absolutely Anything
13 Feb 2015
73%
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
05 Apr 2010
64%
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
17 Feb 2018
83%
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
16 Apr 2024
65%
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
10 Dec 2012
100%
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
18 Dec 2023
85%
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
28 Jun 2008
60%
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
29 Jun 2014
100%
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
30 Jul 2013
50%
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
02 May 2022
70%
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
27 Dec 2023
70%
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
07 May 2024
80%
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
14 Jan 2012
80%
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
04 Sept 1982
90%
The One and Only Mike Leigh
24 Nov 2014
80%
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
25 Jun 2013
10%
The Academy of Armando
03 Mar 2025
90%
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
08 Jun 2025
0%
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
09 Sept 2021
0%
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
09 Oct 2018
Alan Yentob's TV Shows
70%
NOVA
03 Mar 1974
70%
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
12 Nov 1996
75%
Mandy
13 Aug 2020
77%
W1A
19 Mar 2014
80%
Ideal
11 Jan 2005
68%
Beautiful People
02 Oct 2008
37%
Live from Studio Five
14 Sept 2009
62%
imagine…
11 Jun 2003
68%
Operation Good Guys
29 Dec 1997
70%
Timeshift
10 Oct 2002
60%
Open Air
27 Oct 1986
70%
Remembers…
29 Jun 2022
0%
The Story Of The Guitar
05 Oct 2008
0%
Behind The Screen
24 Oct 1988
0%
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
24 Oct 2022