Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-03-11 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Alan Yentob

Biography

We don't have a biography for Alan Yentob.

Known For

6.9%

NOVA

Mar 3, 1974

7.3%

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Apr 5, 2010

7.8%

W1A

Mar 19, 2014

8.1%

Ideal

Jan 11, 2005

7.0%

Beautiful People

Oct 2, 2008

3.3%

Live from Studio Five

Sep 14, 2009

6.4%

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

Feb 17, 2018

5.6%

imagine…

Jun 11, 2003

6.5%

Operation Good Guys

Dec 29, 1997

7.0%

Timeshift

Oct 10, 2002

6.2%

A Bucket O' French and Saunders

Sep 7, 2007

6.5%

Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

Dec 10, 2012

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Acting

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A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas as Self

2025

The Academy of Armando 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 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

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling 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 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 as Self

2008		Richard Serra: Man of Steel as Presenter
2008		The Story Of The Guitar
2008		Beautiful People 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

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 as Alan Yentob

2004

Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture as Self

2003		The World According to Parr as Self - Prsenter
2003		imagine… as Self - Presenter

2002

Timeshift as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)

1997

Operation Good Guys

1988

Behind The Screen

1986

Open Air

1982

Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self - Narrator, Interviewer

1974

NOVA as Narrator

Art

2010

Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour as Other

Crew

2022

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens as Presenter

2012

Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story as Presenter

Directing

2019

The Man Who Saw Too Much as Director

2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Director

2007

Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs as Director

1978

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

1975

Cracked Actor as Director

Editing

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

2003

imagine… as Editor

1985

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

Production

2024

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now as Executive Producer

2022

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs as Producer

2019

The Man Who Saw Too Much as Producer

2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped as Producer

2017

Habaneros as Executive Producer

2015

David Gilmour: Wider Horizons as Executive Producer

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

2010

Van Gogh: Painted with Words as Producer

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

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

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

1983		The GPO Story as Producer
1983		Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Producer
1983		Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano as Executive Producer
1983		Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes as Producer

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

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

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

1979

My Way as Producer

1975		Arena as Producer
1975		Arena as Executive Producer
1975		Cracked Actor as Producer

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

Writing

2010

Van Gogh: Painted with Words as Adaptation

1975

Cracked Actor as Writer