Cast & creator
Stephen Frears
Best known for The South Bank Show, Play for Today, Screen Two
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.
Also known as: 스티븐 프리어즈, Stephen Arthur Frears
115
film credits
30
television credits
48
1966–2026 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (145)
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The South Bank Show
1978
Play for Today
Director
1970
Screen Two
Director
1985
ITV Playhouse
Director
1967
Playhouse
Director
1974
Omnibus
1967
Kulturplatz
Self
2004
The Comic Strip Presents...
Director
1982
Great British Menu
Self - Guest Judge
2006
BBC2 Play of the Week
Director
1977
The Regime
Executive Producer
2024The Regime
Director
2024
The Loudest Voice
Director
2019
High Fidelity
Director
2000
State of the Union
Executive Producer
2019State of the Union
Director
2019
A Very English Scandal
Director
2018A Very English Scandal
Executive Producer
2018Second City Firsts
Director
1973
Dangerous Liaisons
Director
1988
The Queen
Director
2006Full House
Director
1972
Victoria & Abdul
Director
2017
Follyfoot
Director
1971
The Lost King
Director
2022
Quiz
Executive Producer
2020Quiz
Director
2020
The Program
Director
2015
Hero
Director
1992
Dirty Pretty Things
Director
2002
Tamara Drewe
Director
2010
Philomena
Director
2013
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self
1993
Lay the Favorite
Director
2012
Florence Foster Jenkins
Writer
2016Florence Foster Jenkins
Director
2016Sporting Scenes
Director
1973
The Hi-Lo Country
Director
1998
Mary Reilly
Director
1996
Chéri
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2009Chéri
Director
2009
The Grifters
Director
1990
Prick Up Your Ears
Director
1987
Brian and Maggie
Executive Producer
2025Brian and Maggie
Director
2025
Fail Safe
Director
2000
My Beautiful Laundrette
Director
1985
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Director
2005
Reel Britannia
Self
2022
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Director
1987
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Self
2022
Tom Grattan's War
Director
1968
The Hit
Director
1984
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Director
2013
Night Will Fall
Executive Producer
2014Night Will Fall
Producer
2014
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Self
2003
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Assistant Director
1966
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Self
2020
Three Men in a Boat
Director
1975
Michael Powell
2005
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
2016
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Self
2000
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
2014Henri Langlois vu par...
Director
2014
French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
2015
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Self
2009
Back to Barrytown
Self
2021A Look Through His Lens
Self
2024
Bloody Kids
Director
1980
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
Self (Archival)
2004
Going Gently
Director
1981
The Van
Director
1996
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
2024
The Snapper
Director
1993
Parkin's Patch
Director
1969
Sunset Across the Bay
Director
1975
A Visit from Miss Prothero
Director
1978
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Director
1988
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
2007
Who Killed British Cinema?
Self
2018
Forever Ealing
Self
2002
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Self
2023
Le court des grands
Director
2005
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self
2011Howard Hawks: American Artist
Narrator
1997
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
Director
1995
The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel
Director
1984
Walter
Director
1982
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Self (archive footage)
2025
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Director
1983
Play Things
Director
1976Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Self
2017
Great Directors
Self
2009
Match of the Day
Director
1974
Liam
Director
2001
Gumshoe
Director
1971
Able's Will
Director
1977The Making of 'The Queen'
Self
2007
The Deal
Director
2003
Long Shot
Biscuit Man
1978Robert Altman in England
Self
2002
Walter and June
Director
1983
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Director
1978Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything
2026
Wilder & Me
Director
Afternoon Off
Director
1979Afternoon Off
Producer
1979
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Director of Photography
1986Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Director
1986
The Route V50
Director
2004
Director: Alan Clarke
1991
Heavy Rain
Himself
2010
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Self
1985
December Flower
Director
1984
She's French
2018
One Fine Day
Director
1979One Fine Day
Producer
1979
Last Summer
Producer
1977Last Summer
Director
1977
Early Struggles
Director
1976My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
2012
Doris and Doreen
Producer
1978Doris and Doreen
Director
1978
Long Distance Information
Director
1979
A Day Out
Director
1972
Jean Charles
Executive Producer
2009
Song of Experience
Director
1986Cold Harbour
Director
1978
Black Christmas
Director
1977
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
Beyond Fear
Executive Producer
1997
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Self
2019
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Narrator
2001
Cast & Crew: If....
Self - Interviewee
2004
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
Original Film Writer
2021
Eletrodoméstica
Thanks
2005The Tractor Factor
Director
1982Hooray For Holyrood
Self
1986
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015Revisiting The Man in the White Suit
2019
The Burning
Director
1968Incident
Man
1971