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Alan Yentob

Television Presenter / Television Producer / Creative Director | * 03/11/1947 (77) | London (United Kingdom (UK))
Alan Yentob (born 11 March 1947) is a retired British television executive and presenter. He has held senior roles at the BBC including head of music and arts, controller of BBC1 and controller of BBC2. He stepped down as the BBC's creative director in December 2015, and was chairman of the board of trustees of the charity Kids Company from 2003 until its collapse in 2015. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Comedies | Music

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Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belon ...

Woman in Gold

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2015 | 3.7/5 | 1h 49min
Drama
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The biggest names from the world of art, film, music, literature and dance. Alan Yentob gets close up with those shaping today's cultural world. ...

imagine…

TV-14

2003- | 2.7/5 | 50min per episode
Documentary, News
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Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run si ...

Arena

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1975- | 3.2/5 | 1h 30min per episode
Documentary
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Movies with Alan Yentob as Actor(32)

as himself2023 A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
as Presenter2022 Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
as Himself - Presenter2019 Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
as Self - Presenter2018 Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
as himself2018 Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
as himself2017 Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
as himself2017 Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
2016 One Night In 2012
as Himself - Presenter2016 Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
as himself2016 The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
as Presenter2015 Antony Gormley: Being Human
as Himself - Presenter2015 Shylock's Ghost
as Himself - Presenter2015 Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
as Himself - Presenter2014 The One and Only Mike Leigh
as Self - Presenter2014 Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
as Self / Presenter2014 Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
as Himself - Presenter2013 Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
as Self - Presenter2013 Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
as Himself - Presenter2013 Hitler, the Tiger and Me
as himself2013 Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
as Self - Presenter2012 Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
as himself2012 Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
as Himself - Presenter2010 Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
as Self - Narrator2010 Van Gogh: Painted with Words
as Himself - Presenter2009 The Year of Anish Kapoor
as himself2008 A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
as Presenter2008 Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
as Self - Presenter2007 How to Get on in the Art World
as Himself - Presenter2006 A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
as Himself - Presenter2005 Fantastic Mr. Dahl
as Self - Prsenter2003 The World According to Parr
as Narrator/Interviewer1982 Mike Leigh: Making Plays

TV Shows/Series with Alan Yentob as Actor(10)

as himself2014 W1A
as himself2009 Live from Studio Five
2008 The Story Of The Guitar
2007 A Bucket O' French and Saunders
as himself2005 Ideal
as Self - Presenter2003 imagine…
as Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage)2002 Timeshift
1997 Operation Good Guys
1986 Open Air
as Narrator1974 NOVA

Movies with Alan Yentob as Crew(23)

Production/Producer2022 Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Directing/Director2019 The Man Who Saw Too Much
Production/Producer2019 The Man Who Saw Too Much
Directing/Director2018 Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Production/Executive Producer2015 David Gilmour: Wider Horizons
Production/Executive Producer2012 London: The Modern Babylon
Editing/Editor2010 Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
Production/Producer2010 Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Writing/Adaptation2010 Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Art/Other2010 Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
Editing/Editor2010 Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
Production/Producer2008 Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony
Directing/Director2007 Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs
Production/Producer1984 The Long Night of Lady Day
Production/Executive Producer1983 Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano
Production/Producer1983 Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes
Editing/Editor1982 Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Production/Producer1982 The Catherine Wheel: Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation
Production/Producer1979 My Way
Directing/Director1978 "The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
Directing/Director1975 Cracked Actor
Production/Producer1975 Cracked Actor
Writing/Writer1975 Cracked Actor

TV Shows/Series with Alan Yentob as Crew(4)

Editing/Editor2003 imagine…
Production/Producer1983 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Production/Producer1975 Arena
Production/Executive Producer1975 Arena

Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Tuesday, 03/11 1947 (March) in London (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 77 years + 47 days)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: University of Leeds, The King's School Ely
Employer: BBC
Alan Yentob frequently works together with these people:
Julien Temple (7x, Crew)
Graham Duff (6x, Crew)
Anthony Wall (4x, Crew)
Jill Nicholls (4x, Crew)
Rushmore DeNooyer (4x, Crew)
Morag Tinto (3x, Crew)
Daniel McCabe (3x, Crew)
Matthew Springford (3x, Crew)
Chris Schmidt (3x, Crew)
Thomas Grube (3x, Crew)
Doug Hamilton (3x, Crew)
Stephen Lyons (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:507498, Added: 10/05/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024