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Legendary director, writer and producer, John Hughes passed away last week (6 August 2009). Since a week has now passed, I thought it fitting do a short profile on him. Mr Hughes is best known for his coming of age comedies of the 1980s.

John Hughes was born on 18 February 1950 in Lansing, Michigan, USA.

He graduated from Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Illinois in 1968. Most of his films were set in Illinois. He married Nancy Ludwig, whom he met in high school, in 1970. He had two sons John (1976) and James (1979). He had four grandchildren.

After dropping out from university in 1970 he got a job copy-writing for an advertising company in Chicago.

He wrote a story titled Vacation ‘58, which got him a job with National Lampoon and was the basis of the movie Vacation.

His wrote five episodes for Delta House (1979) and first feature length screenplay was National Lampoon’s: Class Reunion (1982). He also wrote the screenplays for all the movies he directed.

A few of 39 the films he wrote include:

* Sixteen Candles
* Home Alone [1-4]
* Beethoven [1-3]
* Dennis the Menace
* Maid in Manhattan
* Drillbit Taylor

He had his directorial debut with Sixteen Candles (1984) and ended his directorial career with Curly Sue. His director filmography includes:

1. Sixteen candles (1984)
2. Breakfast Club (1985)
3. Weird Science (1985)
4. Ferris Bueller’s Day (1986)
5. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
6. She’s having a Baby (1988)
7. Uncle Buck (1989)
8. Curly Sue (1991)

Hughes was also the producer on 23 films spanning from The Breakfast Club (1985) to New Port South (2001).

John Hughes died of a heart attack on August 6, 2009 whilst walking in Manhattan. He was buried in Chicago. John Hughes definitely left a mark on the film industry and on the kids of the 1980s. His movies are still as fresh now as they were then. He will be sorely missed.

He’s movies would make a great edition to your DVD collection. If you have some of his DVDs or videos, which you have watched a thousand times, you could probably sell or trade them in the classifieds, but my guess is if you’re a true fan, you’ll hang on to them. Ferris Bueller, Breakfast Club. Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles are legendary.

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