• Hugh Hudson was a British filmmaker.
• He is best known for his work on the Oscar-winning “Chariots of Fire”.
• Hudson worked as a television commercial producer in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Hugh Hudson, a British filmmaker best known for his work on the Oscar-winning “Chariots of Fire,” passed away on Friday at the age of 86, according to his family.

According to a family statement, Hudson was survived by his wife Maryam, son Thomas, and his first wife Sue when he passed away in a London hospital following a brief illness.

Prior to making feature films and documentaries, including a biopic of Argentine racing legend Juan Manuel Fangio, Hudson worked as a television commercial producer in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The 1981 Oscars were won by “Chariots of Fire,” the account of British Olympians, which won the best film and three more Oscars.

The critically acclaimed “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes” from 1984 was one of Hudson’s previous movies. His works were not entirely commercially successful; “Revolution,” an elaborate depiction of the American War of Independence, was a disappointment at the box office in 1985.

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