Alan Yentob

Acting · 1947–2025 · London, England, UK

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.

Known for

7.0

NOVA

1974 · Series · Narrator

8.0

Ideal

2005 · Series · Alan Yentob

5.9

Absolutely Anything

2015 · Man at Party (uncredited)

6.8

Operation Good Guys

1997 · Series

5.0

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens

2022

The Story Of The Guitar

2008 · Series

Labi Siffre: This Is My Song

2022

One Night In 2012

2016

The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge

2010 · Presenter

Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

2021 · Presenter

Turning the Art World Inside Out

2013

Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain

2008 · Presenter

Directed

7.0

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

2024 · Director

7.0

The Man Who Saw Too Much

2019 · Director

6.4

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

2018 · Director

Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs

2007 · Director

6.0

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

1978 · Director

7.6

David Bowie: Cracked Actor

1975 · Director

All acting credits

Labi Siffre: This Is My Song

2022

5.0

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens

2022

Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

2021 · Presenter

One Night In 2012

2016

5.9

Absolutely Anything

2015 · Man at Party (uncredited)

Turning the Art World Inside Out

2013

The Trouble with Tolstoy

2011

The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge

2010 · Presenter

The Story Of The Guitar

2008 · Series

Richard Serra: Man of Steel

2008 · Presenter

Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain

2008 · Presenter

8.0

Ideal

2005 · Series · Alan Yentob

6.8

Operation Good Guys

1997 · Series

Behind The Screen

1988 · Series

Open Air

6.0

Open Air

1986 · Series

7.0

NOVA

1974 · Series · Narrator