John Hughes, Jr.
(February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009)
John Hughes was an American film director, producer and writer. He made some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon's Vacation; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Weird Science; The Breakfast Club; Sixteen Candles; Pretty in Pink; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Uncle Buck; Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
Hughes, born in Lansing, Michigan, began his career as an ad copywriter in Chicago. During this time, he created what became the famous Edge "Credit Card Shaving Test" ad campaign.
His first attempt at comedy writing was selling jokes to well-established performers such as Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers.
His first directorial effort, Sixteen Candles, won almost unanimous praise when it was released in 1984, due in no small part to its more realistic depiction of middle-class high school life. Hughes was responsible for a slew of films in the 1980s that defined what it meant to be an American teenager, from the music to the fashion to the social faux pas. Though he graduated to more adult fare with films like “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and had his biggest hits with explicitly family-oriented material like “Home Alone".
In recent years, Hughes had stepped back from the movie business to spend more time with his family, as well as maintain a functioning farm in northern Illinois and support independent arts.
Hughes died suddenly of a heart attack, while walking in Manhattan, New York City, where he was visiting his family.
Hughes is survived by his wife of 39 years, Nancy; two sons and four grandchildren.
RIP
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