Stephen Frears
Directing
1941-06-20 · Leicester, England, UK
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
Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
2026 · Movie
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
2025 · Movie
Brian and Maggie
2025 · Series
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · Movie
The Regime
2024 · Series
A Look Through His Lens
2024 · Movie
The Rise of the Comic Strip
2023 · Movie
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022 · Movie
The Lost King
2022 · Movie
Reel Britannia
2022 · Series
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
2021 · Movie
Back to Barrytown
2021 · Series
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020 · Movie
Quiz
2020 · Series
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019 · Movie
The Loudest Voice
2019 · Series
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
2019 · Movie
State of the Union
2019 · Series
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018 · Movie
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018 · Movie
A Very English Scandal
2018 · Series
She's French
2018 · Movie
Victoria & Abdul
2017 · Movie
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017 · Movie
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016 · Movie
Florence Foster Jenkins
2016 · Movie
The Program
2015 · Movie
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015 · Movie
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015 · Movie
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014 · Movie
Night Will Fall
2014 · Movie
Philomena
2013 · Movie
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013 · Movie
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012 · Movie
Lay the Favorite
2012 · Movie
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
2012 · Movie
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011 · Movie
Tamara Drewe
2010 · Movie
Heavy Rain
2010 · Movie
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009 · Movie
Jean Charles
2009 · Movie
Great Directors
2009 · Movie
Chéri
2009 · Movie
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007 · Movie
The Making of 'The Queen'
2007 · Movie
The Queen
2006 · Movie
Great British Menu
2006 · Series
Le court des grands
2005 · Movie
Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005 · Movie
Eletrodoméstica
2005 · Movie
Michael Powell
2005 · Movie
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004 · Movie
Kulturplatz
2004 · Series
Cast & Crew: If....
2004 · Movie
The Route V50
2004 · Movie
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003 · Movie
The Deal
2003 · Movie
Forever Ealing
2002 · Movie
Dirty Pretty Things
2002 · Movie
Robert Altman in England
2002 · Movie
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
2001 · Movie
Liam
2001 · Movie
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
2000 · Movie
Fail Safe
2000 · Movie
High Fidelity
2000 · Movie
The Hi-Lo Country
1998 · Movie
Beyond Fear
1997 · Movie
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997 · Movie
The Van
1996 · Movie
Mary Reilly
1996 · Movie
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995 · Movie
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993 · Series
The Snapper
1993 · Movie
Hero
1992 · Movie
Director: Alan Clarke
1991 · Movie
The Grifters
1990 · Movie
Dangerous Liaisons
1988 · Movie
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
1988 · Movie
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987 · Movie
Prick Up Your Ears
1987 · Movie
Hooray For Holyrood
1986 · Movie
Song of Experience
1986 · Movie
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986 · Movie
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985 · Movie
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
December Flower
1984 · Movie
The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel
1984 · Movie
The Hit
1984 · Movie
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983 · Movie
Walter and June
1983 · Movie
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982 · Series
Walter
1982 · Movie
The Tractor Factor
1982 · Movie
Going Gently
1981 · Movie
Bloody Kids
1980 · Movie
Long Distance Information
1979 · Movie
One Fine Day
1979 · Movie
Afternoon Off
1979 · Movie
Doris and Doreen
1978 · Movie
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978 · Movie
Long Shot
1978 · Movie
Cold Harbour
1978 · Movie
A Visit from Miss Prothero
1978 · Movie
Black Christmas
1977 · Movie
Able's Will
1977 · Movie
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Series
Last Summer
1977 · Movie
Play Things
1976 · Movie
Early Struggles
1976 · Movie
Three Men in a Boat
1975 · Movie
Sunset Across the Bay
1975 · Movie
Match of the Day
1974 · Movie
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Sporting Scenes
1973 · Series
Second City Firsts
1973 · Series
A Day Out
1972 · Movie
Full House
1972 · Series
Gumshoe
1971 · Movie
Follyfoot
1971 · Series
Incident
1971 · Movie
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Parkin's Patch
1969 · Series
Tom Grattan's War
1968 · Series
The Burning
1968 · Movie
Omnibus
1967 · Series
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Series
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966 · Movie
Wilder & Me
Movie