
Alan Yentob
Known For
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Self - Narrator
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Producer
London: The Modern Babylon
Executive Producer
David Bowie: Cracked Actor
Director
David Gilmour: Wider Horizons
Executive Producer
Arena
Executive Producer
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Self - Presenter
imagine…
Self - Presenter
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Filmography
Acting (86)
Movies (70)
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
2025as Self
The Academy of Armando
2025as Self - Presenter
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
2024as Self - Interviewer
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024as Self - Interviewer
imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
2023as Self - presenter
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023as Self
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023as Self - Presenter
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022as Self - Presenter
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022
Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
2022
Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
2021as Presenter
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
2021as Self - Presenter
Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
2020as Self - Presenter
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
2019as Self - Presenter
Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
2019as Self - Presenter
Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
2019as Self - Presenter
Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
2019as Self - Presenter
Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
2018as Self
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018as Self - Presenter
Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
2018as Self - Presenter
George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
2018as Self - Presenter
Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
2017as Self
Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
2017as Self
A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
2016as Self
One Night In 2012
2016
The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
2016as Self - Presenter
The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
2016as Self
Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
2016as Self - Presenter
Antony Gormley: Being Human
2015as Self - Presenter
Shylock's Ghost
2015as Self - Presenter
David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
2015as Self - Presenter
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
2015as Self - Presenter
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014as Self - Presenter
BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
2014as Self
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
2014as Self - Presenter
Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
2014as Self - Presenter
Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
2014as Self - Presenter
Mini: A Life Revisited
2013as Self - Presenter
Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
2013as Self - Presenter
Hitler, the Tiger and Me
2013as Self - Presenter
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
2013as Self
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013as Self - Presenter
Goodbye Television Centre
2013as Self - Reporter
Turning the Art World Inside Out
2013
Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
2012as Self
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
2012as Self
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012as Self - Presenter
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
2012as Self
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011as Self
The Trouble with Tolstoy
2011
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
2011as Self
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
2010as Self - Presenter
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010as Self - Narrator
The Seven Year Hitch
2010as Self
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010as Presenter
The Year of Anish Kapoor
2009as Self - Presenter
Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
2009as Self
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
2008as Self
Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
2008as Presenter
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
2008as Presenter
How to Get on in the Art World
2007as Self - Presenter
Gilbert and George: No Surrender
2007as Self
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
2007as Self - Presenter
Sweet Home New Orleans
2006as Self - Presenter
A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
2006as Self - Presenter
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
2005as Self - Presenter
Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
2004as Self
The World According to Parr
2003as Self - Prsenter
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982as Self - Narrator, Interviewer
A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
as Self
Television (16)
Remembers…
2022as Self
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022as Self
Mandy
2020as Self
W1A
2014as Self
Live from Studio Five
2009as Self
Beautiful People
2008as Self
The Story Of The Guitar
2008
A Bucket O' French and Saunders
2007
Ideal
2005as Alan Yentob
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2003as Self - Presenter
Timeshift
2002as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)
Operation Good Guys
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996as Self - Narrator
Behind The Screen
1988Open Air
1986
NOVA
1974as Narrator
Crew (59)
Movies (56)
The Land of Sometimes
2026Executive Producer
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
2024Director
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024Editor
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
2024Executive Producer
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022Producer
Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
2022Presenter
The Man Who Saw Too Much
2019Director
The Man Who Saw Too Much
2019Producer
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018Director
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018Producer
Habaneros
2017Executive Producer
David Gilmour: Wider Horizons
2015Executive Producer
Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story
2012Executive Producer
Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story
2012Presenter
London: The Modern Babylon
2012Executive Producer
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
2010Editor
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
2010Other
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
2010Editor
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010Adaptation
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010Producer
Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony
2008Producer
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
2008Executive Producer
Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs
2007Director
Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
2007Executive Producer
Studs Terkel's Chicago
1985Executive Producer
The Real Buddy Holly Story
1985Executive Producer
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985Editor
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
1985Producer
Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984
1984Producer
Sunset People
1984Executive Producer
The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience
1984Producer
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
1984Producer
The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
1984Producer
The Long Night of Lady Day
1984Producer
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983Executive Producer
Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes
1983Producer
The GPO Story
1983Producer
The Orson Welles Story
1982Producer
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982Producer
The Catherine Wheel
1982Producer
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1982Executive Producer
Desert Island Discs
1982Producer
Getting Away From Sidney
1981Producer
Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...?
1981Producer
Arena: Dire Straits
1980Producer
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
1980Producer
Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)
1980Producer
My Way
1979Producer
"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
1978Director
David Bowie: Cracked Actor
1975Director
David Bowie: Cracked Actor
1975Producer
David Bowie: Cracked Actor
1975Writer
Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’s
1974Producer
Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show
1974Producer
IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia Parker
Editor
IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia Parker
Presenter
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