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.
Known For
The South Bank Show
1978
Omnibus
1967
Kulturplatz
2004
Great British Menu
2006
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
Chéri
2009
Reel Britannia
2022
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022
0Back to Barrytown
2021
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020
0Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
Filmography
The South Bank Show
· 1978
Omnibus
· 1967
Kulturplatz
as Self · 2004
Great British Menu
as Self - Guest Judge · 2006
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self · 1993
Chéri
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 2009
Reel Britannia
as Self · 2022
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
as Self · 2003
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
as Self · 2022
Back to Barrytown
as Self · 2021
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
as Self · 2020
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self · 2016
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
as Self (Archival) · 2004
Henri Langlois vu par...
as Self · 2014
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
as Self · 2011
30 Years of Comic Strip
· 2012
French Cinema Mon Amour
as Self · 2015
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
as Self · 2000
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
as Self · 2009
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as Self · 2007
The Making of 'The Queen'
as Self · 2007
Who Killed British Cinema?
as Self · 2018
Michael Powell
· 2005
A Look Through His Lens
as Self · 2024
Forever Ealing
as Self · 2002
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self · 2024
Howard Hawks: American Artist
as Narrator · 1997
The Rise of the Comic Strip
as Self · 2023
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
as Self (archive footage) · 2025
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
as Self · 2017
Long Shot
as Biscuit Man · 1978
Heavy Rain
as Himself · 2010
Director: Alan Clarke
· 1991
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
· 1995
Great Directors
as Self · 2009
Robert Altman in England
as Self · 2002
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
as Self · 2019
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
· 2026
Cast & Crew: If....
as Self - Interviewee · 2004
She's French
· 2018
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
as Self · 1985
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
· 2012
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
· 2018
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
· 2019
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
as Narrator · 2001
Hooray For Holyrood
as Self · 1986
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
· 2015
Incident
as Man · 1971