Stephen Frears
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
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Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
2026
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
2025
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
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A Look Through His Lens
2024
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The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
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Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022
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In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020
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Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019
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Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
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Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
She's French
2018
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Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
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Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015
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Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
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30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
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My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
2012
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
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Heavy Rain
2010
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Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
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Great Directors
2009
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Chéri
2009
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