Stephen Frears
Directing
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.
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The South Bank Show
1978
Omnibus
1967
Great British Menu
2006
Kulturplatz
2004
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
Chéri
2009
Reel Britannia
2022
Back to Barrytown
2021
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
2025
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022
Forever Ealing
2002
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
2000
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
A Look Through His Lens
2024
Great Directors
2009
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
Director: Alan Clarke
1991
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985
The Making of 'The Queen'
2007
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
2012
Michael Powell
2005
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019
Long Shot
1978
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
She's French
2018
Robert Altman in England
2002
Heavy Rain
2010
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
2026
Hooray For Holyrood
1986
Cast & Crew: If....
2004
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
2001
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015
Incident
1971
On the crew 85
Play for Today
1970
Screen Two
1985
ITV Playhouse
1967
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
Playhouse
1974
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
The Regime
2024
The Loudest Voice
2019
Second City Firsts
1973
State of the Union
2019
A Very English Scandal
2018
Dangerous Liaisons
1988
High Fidelity
2000
Follyfoot
1971
Quiz
2020
Tom Grattan's War
1968
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
The Queen
2006
Brian and Maggie
2025
Hero
1992
The Grifters
1990
Philomena
2013
Full House
1972
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
Victoria & Abdul
2017
Chéri
2009
The Program
2015
The Lost King
2022
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985
Mary Reilly
1996
Lay the Favorite
2012
Sporting Scenes
1973
Dirty Pretty Things
2002
The Hit
1984
Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005
Parkin's Patch
1969
Tamara Drewe
2010
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
Three Men in a Boat
1975
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
Fail Safe
2000
The Snapper
1993
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Night Will Fall
2014
The Van
1996
The Deal
2003
Le court des grands
2005
Bloody Kids
1980
Liam
2001
Walter
1982
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
Sunset Across the Bay
1975
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
A Visit from Miss Prothero
1978
Gumshoe
1971
Match of the Day
1974
Walter and June
1983
The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel
1984
Going Gently
1981
A Day Out
1972
Long Distance Information
1979
Wilder & Me
Eletrodoméstica
2005
Play Things
1976
December Flower
1984
Afternoon Off
1979
Early Struggles
1976
Jean Charles
2009
The Burning
1968
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
Cold Harbour
1978
Beyond Fear
1997
Doris and Doreen
1978
One Fine Day
1979
The Tractor Factor
1982
Last Summer
1977
Black Christmas
1977
The Route V50
2004
Able's Will
1977
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
2021
Song of Experience
1986