Stephen Frears
Born
June 20, 1941 (84 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Leicester, England, UK
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
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
2024
A Look Through His Lens
Self
2024
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Self
2023
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Self
2022
Reel Britannia
Self · (4 episodes)
2022
Back to Barrytown
Self · (2 episodes)
2021
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Self
2020
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Self
2019
Who Killed British Cinema?
Self
2018
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Self
2017
She's French
2017
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
2016
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
2015
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
2014
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
2012
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self
2011
Heavy Rain
Himself
2010
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Self
2009
Great Directors
Self
2009
Chéri
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2009
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
2007
Michael Powell
2005
Kulturplatz
Self · (1 episode)
2004
Cast & Crew: If....
Self - Interviewee
2004
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Self
2003
Forever Ealing
Self
2002
Robert Altman in England
Himself
2002
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Narrator
2001
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Self
2000
Howard Hawks: American Artist
Narrator
1997
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self · (1 episode)
1993
Director: Alan Clarke
1991
Hooray For Holyrood
Self
1986
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Self
1985
Long Shot
Biscuit Man
1978
Incident
Man
1971