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Hugh Hudson, the director of Chariots of Fire, has died

2023-02-11T00:21:13.783Z


The director of the Oscar winner died after suffering "a short illness," his family said. He was 86 years old.


British filmmaker

Hugh Hudson

, director of the film

Chariots of

Fire

,

1981, died today at the age of 86 after suffering a "short illness," his family said in a statement to the media.

Hudson, author of the four-time Oscar-winning film, died at Charing Cross Hospital in London, the city where he was born, in 1936.

The actor Nigel Havers, one of the protagonists of

Chariots of Fire

, declared himself "devastated" by the death of the filmmaker, who was married with a son.

The director died in London.

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Hudson began his career as a director of documentaries and television commercials, before making the leap to film and finding success with his first feature film, which was nominated for seven Hollywood Academy Awards and won four Oscars.

With music by Vangelis

The film, with a script by Colin Welland and a soundtrack by Vangelis, is a historical drama centering on the experiences of two runners, Eric Liddell, a Scottish Christian, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew.

The film, which tells the story of these two athletes preparing to compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics, was "one of the best experiences of my professional life," the actor declared.

"I, like many others, owe him (Hudson) a huge part of everything that happened after (the film). I will miss him tremendously," Havers added.

Following that success, Hudson filmed Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, King of the Apes, 1984), with Christopher Lambert leading the cast, a film that garnered three Academy Award nominations.

After those films, the British director never managed to make films with the same impact, and reaped resounding box office flops such as

Revolution

 (

Revolution

, 1985),

I Dreamed Africa

 (

I dreamed of Africa

, 2000) and

The Journey Home

 (

Journey home

, 2014 ).

His latest feature film,

Altamira

 (2016), which dealt with the discovery of the prehistoric caves of that name in Cantabria, was shot in Spain and featured Antonio Banderas in the lead role.

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