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.
Filmography (47)
- Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Alec Guinness: A Class Act- A Look Through His Lens
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Reel Britannia
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Back to Barrytown
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Memories of Lindsay Anderson- Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
Who Killed British Cinema?
She's French
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters- Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
French Cinema Mon Amour
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
Henri Langlois vu par...
30 Years of Comic Strip- My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Heavy Rain
Great Directors
Chéri
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Here’s Looking at You, Boy- The Making of 'The Queen'
Great British Menu
Michael Powell
Kulturplatz
Cast & Crew: If....- Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Forever Ealing- Robert Altman in England
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Alan Clarke: His Own Man- Howard Hawks: American Artist
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Director: Alan Clarke- Hooray For Holyrood
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Long Shot- Incident
Omnibus
Crew (83)
- Brian and Maggie
- Brian and Maggie
- Brian and Maggie
- The Regime
- The Lost King
- Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
- Quiz
- The Loudest Voice
- State of the Union
- A Very English Scandal
- Victoria & Abdul
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- The Program
- Night Will Fall
- Philomena
- Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
- Lay the Favorite
- Tamara Drewe
- Jean Charles
- The Queen
- Le court des grands
- Mrs. Henderson Presents
- Eletrodoméstica
- The Route V50
- The Deal
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Liam
- High Fidelity
- Fail Safe
- The Hi-Lo Country
- Beyond Fear
- The Van
- Mary Reilly
- The Snapper
- Hero
- The Grifters
- Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Prick Up Your Ears
- Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
- Song of Experience
- Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
- Screen Two
- My Beautiful Laundrette
- The Hit
- The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel
- December Flower
- Walter and June
- Saigon: Year of the Cat
- The Comic Strip Presents...
- Walter
- The Tractor Factor
- Going Gently
- Bloody Kids
- Long Distance Information
- One Fine Day
- Afternoon Off
- Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
- A Visit from Miss Prothero
- Doris and Doreen
- Cold Harbour
- Last Summer
- BBC2 Play of the Week
- Black Christmas
- Able's Will
- Early Struggles
- Play Things
- Sunset Across the Bay
- Three Men in a Boat
- Playhouse
- Match of the Day
- Second City Firsts
- A Day Out
- Full House
- Follyfoot
- Gumshoe
- Play for Today
- Parkin's Patch
- The Burning
- Tom Grattan's War
- ITV Playhouse
- Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
- Wilder & Me