[1] He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and at Oxford University, where he was the film critic of The Isis Magazine.
[4] When Michael Balcon went over to work for MGM British at Denham Film Studios, he brought Frend with him.
Frend developed as one of Ealing's key directors, along with Charles Crichton, Alexander Mackendrick and Robert Hamer.
Frend moved into television, directing episodes of Interpol Calling, Schilling Playhouse and Danger Man.
[11] Frend then did some more TV - Man of the World, The Sentimental Agent, Zero One - then another feature, Torpedo Bay (1963) with James Mason.
He did episodes of Man in a Suitcase, and did second unit directing on Guns in the Heather and David Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970).
[14] After his death in 1977, Balcon wrote that "this broadminded, liberal man [Frend] without any trace of chauvinism in his outlook nevertheless had a proper pride in Britain and the British people and it is this characteristic which emerges so strongly in all his work.