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 592,538 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 1,989th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,254th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Film Director.

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  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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 232. 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 1,989 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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