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John Hughes (filmmaker) 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 ...
John Wilden Hughes Jr. (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 of ...
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Aug 7, 2009 · Fri 7 Aug 2009 17.13 EDT. B ack in 1985, the film-maker John Hughes – who was then in between The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, two of the best teen movies of all time ...
- National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) Director: Harold Ramis. After sharpening his pen on episodes of late-1970s TV sitcom Delta House, and as a writer for National Lampoon magazine, Hughes turned his own biographical short story, ‘Vacation ’58’, into the screenplay for this Harold Ramis-directed comedy.
- Sixteen Candles (1984) Director: John Hughes. Hughes’ first foray into the American high-school experience, and his directorial debut, came with this mid-80s classic, which laid the groundwork for the modern teen comedy.
- The Breakfast Club (1985) Director: John Hughes. Along with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), this is one of the defining American films of the 1980s and, with its story of a disparate group of students brought together for detention, forces the pleasure, power and pain of adolescence into a confined space, with dramatic consequences.
- Weird Science (1985) Director: John Hughes. While Weird Science is likely best remembered for star Kelly LeBrock in that tight red dress, it runs far deeper than adolescent fantasy – although, admittedly, that its the hook on which this story hangs.
Aug 6, 2009 · John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American filmmaker. He was born in Lansing, Michigan. He grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and Northbrook, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He died of a heart attack in Manhattan, New York City. Hughes' movies include: National Lampoon's Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The ...
Aug 7, 2009 · Culkin said Hughes was both an influential filmmaker and "a great and decent man". Hughes continued writing long after he directed his final film, the mawkish comedy Curly Sue, in 1991.
