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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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Leicester, England, UK, 1941-06-20

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Incident	Man	0
2	1978	Long Shot	Biscuit Man	0
3	1985	Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman	Self	0
4	1986	Hooray For Holyrood	Self	0
5	1991	Director: Alan Clarke		0
6	1995	Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema		67
7	1997	Howard Hawks: American Artist	Narrator	58
8	2000	Alan Clarke: His Own Man	Self	60
9	2001	All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar	Narrator	0
10	2002	Robert Altman in England	Himself	0
11	2002	Forever Ealing	Self	68
12	2003	100 Greatest Sexy Moments	Self	50
13	2004	Cast & Crew: If....	Self - Interviewee	0
14	2005	Michael Powell		0
15	2007	Here’s Looking at You, Boy	Self	58
16	2009	Chéri	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	61
17	2009	Great Directors	Self	59
18	2009	Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'	Self	0
19	2010	Heavy Rain	Himself	20
20	2011	Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood	Self	10
21	2012	My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment		0
22	2012	30 Years of Comic Strip		0
23	2014	Henri Langlois vu par...	Self	0
24	2015	French Cinema Mon Amour	Self	5
25	2015	Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe		0
26	2016	Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light	Self	0
27	2017	She's French		0
28	2017	Il était une fois... « The Queen »	Self	0
29	2018	Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters		0
30	2018	Who Killed British Cinema?	Self	50
31	2019	Memories of Lindsay Anderson	Self	0
32	2019	Revisiting The Man in the White Suit		0
33	2020	In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat	Self	20
34	2022	Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel	Self	71
35	2023	The Rise of the Comic Strip	Self	0
36	2024	A Look Through His Lens	Self	0
37	2024	Alec Guinness: A Class Act	self	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1993	Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties	Self	0
2	2004	Kulturplatz	Self	60
3	2021	Back to Barrytown	Self	0
4	2022	Reel Britannia	Self	85