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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 nominati…
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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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Stephen Frears's Filmography
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Angela Allen: The Woman Who Saw Everything

Innes Lloyd: The Producer
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Alec Guinness: A Class Act
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A Look Through His Lens
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The Rise of the Comic Strip
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Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
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In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
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Revisiting The Man in the White Suit

Memories of Lindsay Anderson
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Who Killed British Cinema?
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Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters

She's French
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Il était une fois... « The Queen »
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
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Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe

French Cinema Mon Amour
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Henri Langlois vu par...
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30 Years of Comic Strip
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My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment

Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
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Heavy Rain
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Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
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Great Directors
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Chéri
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
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The Making of 'The Queen'
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Michael Powell
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Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
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Cast & Crew: If....
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100 Greatest Sexy Moments
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Forever Ealing
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Robert Altman in England
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All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
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Alan Clarke: His Own Man
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Howard Hawks: American Artist
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Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema

Director: Alan Clarke
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Hooray For Holyrood
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Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
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Long Shot
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Incident
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