Stephen Frears
Directing • Born 1941-06-20
Biography
Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English director and producer. He has directed numerous acclaimed films since the early 1980s, including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Grifters (1990), High Fidelity (2000), The Queen (2006), Philomena (2013), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director. Frears is also known for his work on various television programs, including Fail Safe (2000), The Deal (2003), Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), A Very English Scandal (2018), State of the Union (2019), and Quiz (2020). He has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with one win. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph named Frears among the 100 most influential people in British culture.
Filmography
43 credits
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Movie • 2001
Narrator
Chéri
Movie • 2009
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Forever Ealing
Movie • 2002
Self
Robert Altman in England
Movie • 2002
Himself
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Movie • 2007
Self
Heavy Rain
Movie • 2010
Himself
30 Years of Comic Strip
Movie • 2012
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Movie • 2022
Self
A Look Through His Lens
Movie • 2024
Self
She's French
Movie • 2017
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Movie • 2011
Self
Incident
Movie • 1971
Man
French Cinema Mon Amour
Movie • 2015
Self
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Movie • 2017
Self
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
Movie • 1995
Great Directors
Movie • 2009
Self
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
Movie • 2012
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Movie • 2000
Self
Cast & Crew: If....
Movie • 2004
Self - Interviewee
Director: Alan Clarke
Movie • 1991
Long Shot
Movie • 1978
Biscuit Man
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
Movie • 2018
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Movie • 2020
Self
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Movie • 2009
Self
Hooray For Holyrood
Movie • 1986
Self
Who Killed British Cinema?
Movie • 2018
Self
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Movie • 1985
Self
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Movie • 2019
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Movie • 2014
Self
Howard Hawks: American Artist
Movie • 1997
Narrator
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
Movie • 2015
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
Movie • 2019
Michael Powell
Movie • 2005
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Movie • 2016
Self
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Movie • 2023
Self
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Movie • 2024
self
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Movie • 2003
Self
The Making of 'The Queen'
Movie • 2007
Self
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Reel Britannia
TV • 2022
Self
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TV • 1993
Self
Back to Barrytown
TV • 2021
Self
Kulturplatz
TV • 2004
Self