# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-hudson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:07:12.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-hudson"
name: "Hugh Hudson"
slug: "hugh-hudson"
description: "Hugh Hudson was an English film director. He is known for directing the 1981 Academy Award and BAFTA Award Best Picture Chariots of Fire, after beginning his career making documentaries and television commercials. He continued to direct commercials while making films, which included the British Airways face advertisement from 1989 made in collaboration with London-based advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi."
tagline: "British director (1936–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_parker%2C_Hugh_Hudson_and_L%C3%A9olo_Victor-Pujebet~2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-08-25"
deathDate: "2023-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.63
  momentum:             13.04011106358252
  historical:           21.479864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0399853/"
    handle:    "nm0399853"
sources:
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    title: "ヒュー・ハドソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ჰიუ ჰადსონი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хадсон, Хью"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Hugh Hudson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump