Almost everyone knows the opening sequence, film buff or not: the windswept beach, the foaming waves, the soaring, triumphant music against the sound of runners’ feet patting on wet sand. So begins ...

Paris (AFP) – Patricia Russell was only six when she said farewell to her father Eric Liddell for the final time but she retains fond memories of the athlete immortalised in the Oscar-winning film ...

Hugh Hudson, the Academy Award-nominated director of 1981's Chariots of Fire, has died. He was 86-years-old. In a statement, the filmmaker's family revealed that Hudson passed away at London's Charing ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the unforgettable Academy Award-winning score for the film “Chariots of Fire” and music for dozens of other movies, ...

Ben Cross, who portrayed the gold medal-winning Olympic sprinter Harold Abrahams in the 1981 Oscar best picture winner 'Chariots of Fire,' has died. He was 72. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Ben Cross, ...

“Chariots of Fire” has prevented the achievements of Liddell and Abrahams from being lost in time, but the film is not a precise portrayal of their lives. Liddell, for instance, decided not to run the ...

Hudson died at London's Charing Cross hospital Friday following a short illness, his family said in a statement Kimberlee Speakman is a Writer-Reporter on the News team at PEOPLE, covering Weekends.

ATHENS (Reuters) -Vangelis, the Greek composer whose rousing electronic theme music for the Oscar-winning 1981 film "Chariots of Fire" became one of the most loved movie scores, has died at the age of ...