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