FILM DIRECTOR

Hugh Hudson

1936 - 2023

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Hugh Hudson (25 August 1936 – 10 February 2023) was an English film director. He was among a generation of British directors who would begin their career making documentaries and television commercials before going on to have success in films. Hudson directed the 1981 Academy Award and BAFTA Award Best Picture Chariots of Fire, a film ranked 19th in the British Film Institute's list of Top 100 British films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugh Hudson has received more than 557,329 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Hugh Hudson is the 538th most popular film director (up from 606th in 2019), the 1,988th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,254th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Hugh Hudson ranks 538 out of 2,041. Before him are Ferdinand Zecca, Alain Corneau, Andrzej Munk, Denys Arcand, Philip Kaufman, and Paul W. S. Anderson. After him are Olivier Assayas, Dadasaheb Phalke, Wojciech Has, Lindsay Anderson, Henning Carlsen, and James Wan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Hugh Hudson ranks 198. Before him are Hazem El Beblawi, Stefano Delle Chiaie, Valentín Paniagua, Polina Astakhova, Andrej Kvašňák, and Philip Kaufman. After him are Frederic Forrest, Adolfo Nicolás, Tony Musante, Trần Đức Lương, Šaban Bajramović, and Carl, Duke of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 2023, Hugh Hudson ranks 231. Before him are Paolo Magnani, Julian Sands, Fernando Villavicencio, Sandra Day O'Connor, Jean-Jacques Honorat, and Marinho Peres. After him are Anton Tus, Frederic Forrest, Kenneth Anger, Álvaro Colom, Richard Belzer, and Carmen Sevilla.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Hudson ranks 1,988 out of 8,785. Before him are Edith Pargeter (1913), Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), Herbert Read (1893), Francis Rossi (1949), John Adams (1767), and Randolph Churchill (1911). After him are Daisy, Princess of Pless (1873), Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), Robert Morley (1908), Colin Renfrew (1937), Dennis W. Sciama (1926), and Tom Hiddleston (1981).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Hugh Hudson ranks 37. Before him are John Badham (1939), Michael Apted (1941), Mike Leigh (1943), Peter Yates (1929), Ken Annakin (1914), and Paul W. S. Anderson (1965). After him are George Albert Smith (1864), David Byrne (1952), Chris Menges (1940), Anthony Asquith (1902), Lewis Gilbert (1920), and Michael Powell (1905).

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Filmography

Chariots of Fire
Director
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
May 15o 19816.8 / 10
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Director
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Mar 30o 19846.3 / 10
Finding Altamira
Director
The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
Apr 1o 20165.7 / 10