Film director Hugh Hudson died in London this Friday at the age of 86 after struggling with a “brief illness,” his own family said in a statement. The film Chariots of Fire (1981) stood out in his professional career, with which he won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
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Hudson began his film career in the 1960s shooting documentaries and commercials with Ridley Scott and following his success he moved into feature films where he began directing the second unit of Alan Parker’s film The Midnight Express (1978).
It was around this time that he came into contact with David Puttnam, who was producing Chariots of Fire, an Oscar-winning film that tells the true story of two British medalists from the Paris 1924 Olympic Games, of different backgrounds and motivations.
He later directed Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (1984) and Revolution (1985), a Revolutionary War story starring Al Pacino and Donald Sutherland. The British filmmaker also collaborated in 2016 with actor Antonio Banderas, who starred in one of his latest films, Altamira, which tells the 19th-century discovery of the caves and cave paintings of Altamira and the confrontations and conflicts that discovery caused with the Church and the society of the time.
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