Stephen Frears
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 (47 titles)
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
2026
8.0MovieInnes Lloyd: The Producer
Self (archive footage) · 2025
6.0MovieAlec Guinness: A Class Act
self · 2024
A Look Through His Lens
Self · 2024
MovieThe Rise of the Comic Strip
Self · 2023
7.3MovieHans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Self · 2022
8.5ShowReel Britannia
Self · 2022
ShowBack to Barrytown
Self · 2021
2.0MovieIn The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Self · 2020
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019
MovieMemories of Lindsay Anderson
Self · 2019
5.0MovieWho Killed British Cinema?
Self · 2018
MovieSeduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
MovieShe's French
2018
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Self · 2017
MovieAlan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self · 2016
MovieReflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015
5.2MovieFrench Cinema Mon Amour
Self · 2015
4.0MovieHenri Langlois vu par...
Self · 2014
5.0Movie30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
2012
1.0MovieHans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self · 2011
5.5MovieHeavy Rain
Himself · 2010
MovieOnce Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Self · 2009
6.1MovieGreat Directors
Self · 2009
6.1MovieChéri
Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 2009
4.8MovieHere’s Looking at You, Boy
Self · 2007
The Making of 'The Queen'
Self · 2007
6.5ShowGreat British Menu
Self - Guest Judge · 2006
MovieMichael Powell
2005