Hugh Hudson was an English film director who lived from 25 August 1936 to 10 February 2023.

He belonged to a group of British directors who began their careers directing television advertisements and documentaries before finding success in the cinema industry.

He was the director of Chariots of Fire (1981), which won the Best Picture Academy Award and BAFTA Award and was voted 19th among the Top 100 British Films by the British Film Institute. While shooting movies, he continued to direct commercials, such as the British Airways face ad from 1989 that was created in association with the London-based ad firm Saatchi & Saatchi.

In the 1960s, Hudson co-founded a documentary film firm with partners Robert Brownjohn and David Cammell after spending three years editing films in Paris. The business produced a number of documentaries, including The Tortoise and the Hare, a BAFTA Award nominee, and A for Apple, which received a Screenwriters’ Guild Award. The business had great success when it first started in the 1960s, receiving several accolades and inventing a fresh visual look for documentaries and commercials.

Hugh Hudson funeral, burial service, pictures, date, time, venue

Visitation will take place on July 25 from 3–5 p.m. at Crippens Mortuary in Montrose, California. St. James Catholic Church in La Crescenta, California, will host the funeral On July 26, at 10 a.m., graveside services will be held at San Fernando Mission Cemetery.