---
name: "Fenton Bailey"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/fenton-bailey"
fi1m_id: "fenton-bailey"
imdb_id: "nm0047259"
tmdb_id: 16957
wikidata_id: "Q24640014"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T02:20:27.729889+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Fenton Bailey

## Identity

Fenton Bailey

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/fenton-bailey
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** fenton-bailey
- **IMDb ID:** nm0047259
- **TMDB ID:** 16957
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24640014
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24640014, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047259/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16957

Producer. Born 1 January 1960 in Portsmouth, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1960, Portsmouth, England, UK
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Also known as:** Fenton Baley
- **Average Fi1m score:** 62, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24640014, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047259/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16957

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Stop! That! Train!*](https://film.one/film/stop-that-train.md) (63)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Fenton Bailey is a British-born director, producer and screenwriter. He co-founded the production company World of Wonder with Randy Barbato after they met while attending the Graduate Film Program at New York University. Bailey read English at Oxford and was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1960.

With Barbato he has directed and produced numerous documentaries and television projects, including *Party Monster* (2003), *Inside Deep Throat* (2005), *Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking* (2010) and *Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures* (2016). Bailey is a co-founder and long-term producer of the reality series *RuPaul’s Drag Race*. He also produced the 2026 film *Stop! That! Train!*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, variety.com, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com, port.ac.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Stop! That! Train!* (2026), Fi1m 63, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/stop-that-train.md)
- *The Eyes of Tammy Faye* (2021), Fi1m 60, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-eyes-of-tammy-faye.md)

## Complete filmography (80)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *RuPaul's Drag Race UK: Rewind* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Stop! That! Train!* (2026), Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/stop-that-train.md)
- *Heals* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Manhood* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Murder in Glitterball City* (2026), series, Producer, Director
- *Dear Viv* (2025), Executive Producer
- *The Little Pageant That Could* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Drag Me to the Movies* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Frybread Face and Me* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Chill with Phil* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *True Crime Story: Citizen Detective* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story* (2023), Producer
- *Raising a F***ing Star* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *The Bitch Who Stole Christmas* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Jimbo vs. Peas* (2021), Executive Producer
- *The Eyes of Tammy Faye* (2021), Executive Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-eyes-of-tammy-faye.md)
- *Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes* (2021), series, Director, Producer
- *Going to Pot: The High and Low of It* (2021), Executive Producer, Director
- *RuPaul's Drag Race: Bring Back My Ghouls* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Freedia Got a Gun* (2020), Producer
- *Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker* (2020), Producer
- *30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing* (2019), Director
- *Liberty: Mother of Exiles* (2019), Director, Producer
- *Can You Keep a Secret?* (2019), Thanks
- *Stonewall Outloud* (2019), Producer, Director
- *Werq the World* (2019), series, Executive Producer
- *Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts* (2019), Executive Producer
- *RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-Slay Spectacular* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Follow Me* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *When the Beat Drops* (2018), Producer
- *Menendez: Blood Brothers* (2017), Director, Executive Producer
- *Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Every Brilliant Thing* (2016), Director
- *Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures* (2016), Director
- *Out of Iraq: A Love Story* (2016), Producer
- *All My Gay Friends Are Getting Married* (2016), series, Executive Producer
- *Dressed as a Girl* (2014), Executive Producer
- *I Am Britney Jean* (2013), Director
- *In Vogue: The Editor's Eye* (2012), Director
- *The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell* (2011), Director
- *Becoming Chaz* (2011), Director
- *Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking* (2010), Producer, Director
- *Away We Stay* (2010), as Photo Assistant 1
- *When I Knew* (2009), Director
- *Reverend Death* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Heidi Fleiss: The Would-be Madam of Crystal* (2008), Director
- *Hitler: The Comedy Years* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Miss Navajo* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Ted Bundy: Natural Porn Killer* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Tammy Faye Death Defying* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Inside Deep Throat* (2005), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Linklater: St. Richard of Austin* (2004), Executive Producer
- *The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality* (2004), Director, Executive Producer
- *Vivid Valley* (2004), series, Executive Producer
- *Shock Video 2004: Too Hot for the Box* (2004), Director
- *Party Monster* (2003), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Kidneys for Jesus* (2003), Producer
- *The Truth About Gay Sex* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Monica in Black and White* (2002), Director
- *The Double Life of Jonathan King* (2002), Producer
- *Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines* (2001), Producer, Director
- *The Secret Rulers of the World* (2001), series, Producer
- *Lesbians Go Mad In Lesbos* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Shock Video 2001: A Sex Odyssey* (2000), Director
- *101 Rent Boys* (2000), Director, Producer
- *The Eyes of Tammy Faye* (2000), Director, Producer
- *Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization* (1999), series, Executive Producer
- *Party Monster: The Shockumentary* (1998), Director
- *Shock Video 5: Turn-On TV '97* (1997), Director
- *Shantay* (1997), Director
- *Drop Dead Gorgeous (A Tragicomedy): The Power of HIV Positive Thinking* (1997), Director
- *The Real Ellen Story* (1997), Director
- *Shock Video 4: Turn-On TV '96* (1996), Director
- *Shock Video 3: Turn-On TV* (1996), Director
- *Shock Video 2: The Show Business of Crime and Punishment* (1995), Director
- *Nelson Sullivan's World Of Wonder* (1994), Director, Producer
- *RuPaul's Christmas Ball* (1993), Director, Producer
- *Videos, Vigilantes and Voyeurism* (1993), Director, Producer
- *Shock Video* (1993), Director

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