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Aug 6, 2009 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 40348198. Source citation. Motion Picture Director, Screenwriter, and Producer. He is best known for the 1980s comedy and teenager films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), Weird Science (1985), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987).
Jan 26, 2023 · Few American film auteurs captured the American zeitgeist of the '80s and early '90s more deftly, astutely, and hilariously than John Hughes.Hughes is perhaps most famous for his empathetic ...
Aug 7, 2009 · Aug. 6, 2009. See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. LOS ANGELES John Hughes, the once-prolific filmmaker whose sweet and sassy comedies like “Sixteen ...
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John Wilden Hughes Jr. [2] (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He began his career in 1970 as an author of humorous essays and stories for the National Lampoon magazine. He went on in Hollywood to write, produce and sometimes direct some of the most successful live-action comedy films ...
Feb 11, 2010 · Photography by Dan Winters. February 11, 2010. The canvas backing from Hughes’s director’s chair from the set of Sixteen Candles, signed by members of the crew and cast. A business card for ...
