Hugh Hudson (born 25 August 1936) is a British film director. His best-known international success is the 1981 multiple Academy Award-winning film, Chariots of Fire.
Hudson was born in London, the only son of Jacynth Ellerton, the second wife of Michael Donaldson-Hudson from rural north Shropshire. His paternal ancestors came from Scotland and Cumberland. He was sent to boarding school at the age of 6, and thereafter was educated at Eton College....
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Hugh Hudson (born 25 August 1936) is a British film director. His best-known international success is the 1981 multiple Academy Award-winning film, Chariots of Fire.
Hudson was born in London, the only son of Jacynth Ellerton, the second wife of Michael Donaldson-Hudson from rural north Shropshire. His paternal ancestors came from Scotland and Cumberland. He was sent to boarding school at the age of 6, and thereafter was educated at Eton College. He completed his National Service in the Royal Armoured Corps as a second lieutenant from the 28 January 1956, and remained as a lieutenant in the Army Reserve of Officers until discharged on the 16 January 1960.
In the 1960s, after three years editing documentaries in Paris, Hudson headed a documentary film company with partners Robert Brownjohn and David Camell, producing, among others, award winning documentaries A for Apple (Screenwriter's Guild Award), and The Tortoise and the Hare (BAFTA nomination). This company emerged as the leading...
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