Alan Yentob

Career Overview

Alan Yentob has 130 screen credits in a career dating back to 1974. Signature works include Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now, imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter, imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Acting
Gender: male
Known Credits: 130
Birth Date: 1947-03-11
Birth Place: London, England, UK

Known For

Frequent Collaborators

Es Devlin (2 collaborations)
Danny Boyle (2 collaborations)
Kenrick Sandy (2 collaborations)
Neil Tennant (1 collaborations)
Chris Lowe (1 collaborations)
Olly Alexander (1 collaborations)
Marc Almond (1 collaborations)
Angela Becker (1 collaborations)
Jeffrey Bryant (1 collaborations)
Javier De Frutos (1 collaborations)

Credits

crew (4 credits)
- IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia Parker
  presenter
  
  crew
  
  2026
- The Land of Sometimes
  in memory of
  
  crew
  
  2026
- Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
  presenter
  
  crew
  
  2022
- Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story
  presenter
  
  crew
  
  2012
editing (5 credits)
- IMAGINE: DANGER! Cornelia Parker
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2026
- Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2024
- Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2010
- Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2010
- Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1985
actors (73 credits)
- A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- The Academy of Armando
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
  Self - Interviewer
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2024
- Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
  Self - Interviewer
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2024
- imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2023
- imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2023
- imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester
  Self - presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2023
- Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Labi Siffre: This Is My Song
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life
  Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2020
- Mandy
  
  - The Ballad of Mandy Carter (2024) ... Self actor actors
  
  2020
- Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2018
- Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2018
- Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2018
- Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2018
- Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- One Night In 2012
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- David Chipperfield: A Place to Be
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- Antony Gormley: Being Human
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- Shylock's Ghost
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- Absolutely Anything
  Man at Party (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- The One and Only Mike Leigh
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Hitler, the Tiger and Me
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Turning the Art World Inside Out
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Mini: A Life Revisited
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures?
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Goodbye Television Centre
  Self - Reporter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Books: The Last Chapter?
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- The Trouble with Tolstoy
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
  Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- The Seven Year Hitch
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- Van Gogh: Painted with Words
  Self - Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2009
- The Year of Anish Kapoor
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2009
- Richard Serra: Man of Steel
  Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain
  Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- How to Get on in the Art World
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- Gilbert and George: No Surrender
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Sweet Home New Orleans
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Fantastic Mr. Dahl
  Self - Presenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- The World According to Parr
  Self - Prsenter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Mike Leigh: Making Plays
  Self - Narrator, Interviewer
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1982
- NOVA
  
  - Musical Minds (2009) ... Narrator actor actors
  
  1974
production (39 credits)
- The Land of Sometimes
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  2026
- Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  2024
- imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
  producer
  
  production
  
  2022
- The Man Who Saw Too Much
  producer
  
  production
  
  2019
- Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
  producer
  
  production
  
  2018
- Habaneros
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  2017
- David Gilmour: Wider Horizons
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  2015
- Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  2012
- London: The Modern Babylon
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  2012
- Van Gogh: Painted with Words
  producer
  
  production
  
  2010
- Richard Serra: Man of Steel
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  2008
- Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  2007
- The Real Buddy Holly Story
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  1985
- Studs Terkel's Chicago
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  1985
- Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
  producer
  
  production
  
  1985
- Fela Kuti: Live at Glastonbury 1984
  producer
  
  production
  
  1984
- The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience
  producer
  
  production
  
  1984
- Sunset People
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  1984
- The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
  producer
  
  production
  
  1984
- The Long Night of Lady Day
  producer
  
  production
  
  1984
- The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
  producer
  
  production
  
  1984
- The GPO Story
  producer
  
  production
  
  1983
- Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  1983
- Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes
  producer
  
  production
  
  1983
- A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
  producer
  
  production
  
  1982
- Mike Leigh: Making Plays
  producer
  
  production
  
  1982
- The Orson Welles Story
  producer
  
  production
  
  1982
- Desert Island Discs
  producer
  
  production
  
  1982
- The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  1982
- The Catherine Wheel
  producer
  
  production
  
  1982
- Have You Seen The Mona Lisa...?
  producer
  
  production
  
  1981
- Getting Away From Sidney
  producer
  
  production
  
  1981
- Arena: Dire Straits
  producer
  
  production
  
  1980
- Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
  producer
  
  production
  
  1980
- Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)
  producer
  
  production
  
  1980
- My Way
  producer
  
  production
  
  1979
- David Bowie: Cracked Actor
  producer
  
  production
  
  1975
- Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show
  producer
  
  production
  
  1974
- Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott’s
  producer
  
  production
  
  1974
directing (6 credits)
- Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
  director
  
  directing
  
  2024
- The Man Who Saw Too Much
  director
  
  directing
  
  2019
- Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
  director
  
  directing
  
  2018
- Yusuf Islam: A Few Good Songs
  director
  
  directing
  
  2007
- "The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
  director
  
  directing
  
  1978
- David Bowie: Cracked Actor
  director
  
  directing
  
  1975
art (1 credits)
- Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
  other
  
  art
  
  2010
writing (2 credits)
- Van Gogh: Painted with Words
  adaptation
  
  writing
  
  2010
- David Bowie: Cracked Actor
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1975