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