Freddie Foreman

In 2018, it was announced that a biopic documentary would be made on Foreman, directed by his son Jamie. Rather than glamorizing Foreman’s life of crime, Fred is billed as a somber and intimate look at the notorious villain towards the end of his life. The biopic was written and directed by Paul Van Carter.

In 2018, it was reported Foreman was living in a nursing home with no money, estranged from his family.

Foreman was later sentenced to nine years imprisonment for handling proceeds from the Security Express robbery in Shoreditch, East London in 1983, which at the time was the largest cash robbery in the UK along with Ronnie Knight and Cliford Saxe. and for which he received nine years in prison.

For a large part of the 1960s, Foreman and the Kray twins' gang The Firm, ruled the streets in the East End of London. But Foreman’s association with them ended when all three were imprisoned. At the time of the arrests, Foreman was 36 years old and licensee of The Prince of Wales on Lant Street in Southwark.

In his autobiography, Respect, Foreman also admitted to the murders of Frank "Mad Axeman" Mitchell and Tommy "Ginger" Marks during the 1960s in revenge for the shooting of his brother who had been shot in the groin. He had been acquitted of these murders at an Old Bailey trial in the 1960s.

Foreman was a prominent figure in London gangland from the 1950s through to the 1980s.

Freddie Foreman (born 5 March 1932), better known as Brown Bread Fred, is an English publican, gangster, former associate of the Kray twins and convicted criminal.

Frederick Gerald Foreman was born at 22 Sheepcote Lane, Battersea on 5 March 1932, the son of Herbert Albert Foreman.