Alan Yentob

Known for Acting

Alan Yentob's portrait

Details

Birthday: March 11, 1947

Deathday: May 24, 2025

Place of birth: London, England, UK

Biography

Actor

2025

The Academy of Armando

2025

When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville

2024

Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now

2024

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

2023

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

2023

imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester

2023

imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter

2022

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

2022

Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens

2022

Labi Siffre: This Is My Song

2021

Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life

2021

Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting

2020

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

2019

Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is

2019

Jo Brand: No Holds Barred

2019

Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless

2019

Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device

2018

Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

2018

Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons

2018

George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?

2017

Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned

2017

Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room

2016

The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan

2016

The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge

2016

One Night In 2012

2016

A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James

2016

Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself

2015

Antony Gormley: Being Human

2015

Shylock's Ghost

2015

Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"

2015

David Chipperfield: A Place to Be

2014

The One and Only Mike Leigh

2014

Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar

2014

BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M

2014

Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca

2014

Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future

2013

Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins

2013

Turning the Art World Inside Out

2013

Mini: A Life Revisited

2013

Goodbye Television Centre

2013

Hitler, the Tiger and Me

2013

Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?

2013

Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?

2012

Mel Brooks Strikes Back!

2012

Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective

2012

Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil

2012

Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me

2011

Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman

2011

Books: The Last Chapter?

2011

The Trouble with Tolstoy

2010

The Seven Year Hitch

2010

Ray Davies: Imaginary Man

2010

The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge

2010

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

2009

Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles

2009

The Year of Anish Kapoor

2008

A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

2008

Richard Serra: Man of Steel

2008

Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain

2007

How to Get on in the Art World

2007

Gilbert and George: No Surrender

2007

Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure

2006

A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin

2006

Sweet Home New Orleans

2005

Fantastic Mr. Dahl

2004

Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture

2003

The World According to Parr

1982

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

1970

A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas

Director

2024

Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

2019

The Man Who Saw Too Much

2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

2007

Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs

1978

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

1975

David Bowie: Cracked Actor

Writer

1975

David Bowie: Cracked Actor