Stephen Frears
Directing
- Born:
- 1941-06-20
- Place of birth:
- Leicester, England, UK
Biography
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
Filmography
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
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Reel Britannia
Back to Barrytown
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Who Killed British Cinema?
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
She's French
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
French Cinema Mon Amour
Henri Langlois vu par...
30 Years of Comic Strip
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Heavy Rain
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Great Directors
Chéri
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
The Making of 'The Queen'
Great British Menu
Michael Powell
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
Kulturplatz
Cast & Crew: If....
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
The South Bank Show
Incident
Omnibus