Directing · Leicester, England, UK · Born June 20, 1941
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.
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
2026
MovieInnes Lloyd: The Producer
2025
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MovieAlec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
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A Look Through His Lens
2024
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MovieThe Rise of the Comic Strip
2023
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MovieHans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022
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TVReel Britannia
2022
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TVBack to Barrytown
2021
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MovieIn The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020
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Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019
MovieMemories of Lindsay Anderson
2019
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MovieWho Killed British Cinema?
2018
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MovieSeduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
MovieShe's French
2018
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017
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MovieAlan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
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MovieReflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015
MovieFrench Cinema Mon Amour
2015
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MovieHenri Langlois vu par...
2014
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Movie30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
2012
MovieHans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011
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MovieHeavy Rain
2010
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MovieOnce Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
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MovieGreat Directors
2009
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MovieChéri
2009
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MovieHere’s Looking at You, Boy
2007
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The Making of 'The Queen'
2007
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TVGreat British Menu
2006
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MovieMichael Powell
2005
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004
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TVKulturplatz
2004
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MovieCast & Crew: If....
2004
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Movie100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
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MovieForever Ealing
2002
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Robert Altman in England
2002
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MovieAll About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
2001
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MovieAlan Clarke: His Own Man
2000
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Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997
as Narrator
MovieTypically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
TVHollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
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MovieDirector: Alan Clarke
1991
Hooray For Holyrood
1986
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MovieShooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985
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MovieLong Shot
1978
as Biscuit Man
Incident
1971
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TVOmnibus
1967
