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Stephen Frears
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 (1…
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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.
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2025
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Brian and Maggie
TV show Executive Producer
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2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Movie self
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2024
The Regime
TV show Executive Producer
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2024
A Look Through His Lens
Movie Self
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2023
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Movie Self
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2022
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Movie Self
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2022
The Lost King
Movie Director
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2022
Reel Britannia
TV show Self
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2021
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
Movie Original Film Writer
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2021
Back to Barrytown
TV show Self
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2020
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Movie Self
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2020
Quiz
TV show Executive Producer
- 2019
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2019
The Loudest Voice
TV show Director
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2019
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Movie Self
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2019
State of the Union
TV show Executive Producer
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2018
Who Killed British Cinema?
Movie Self
- 2018
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2018
A Very English Scandal
TV show Director
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2018
She's French
Movie
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2017
Victoria & Abdul
Movie Director
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2017
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Movie Self
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2016
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Movie Self
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2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
Movie Director
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2015
The Program
Movie Director
- 2015
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2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
Movie Self
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2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
Movie Self
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2014
Night Will Fall
Movie Executive Producer
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2013
Philomena
Movie Director
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2013
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Movie Director
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2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
Movie
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2012
Lay the Favorite
Movie Director
- 2012
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2011
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Movie Self
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2010
Tamara Drewe
Movie Director
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2010
Heavy Rain
Movie Himself
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2009
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Movie Self
