John Hughes

(1950-2009)

American director, producer and screenwriter

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John Wilden Hughes Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American filmmaker. Beginning as an author of humorous essays and stories for National Lampoon, he went on to write, produce and sometimes direct some of the most successful live-action comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s such as National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and its sequels National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Mr. Mom (1983), Sixteen Candles (1984), Weird Science (1985), The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Pretty in Pink (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), She's Having a Baby (1988), Uncle Buck (1989), Dutch (1991), Dennis the Menace (1993), Baby's Day Out (1994), the Beethoven franchise (co-written under a pseudonym with Amy Holden-Jones) and Home Alone (1990) and its sequels Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) and Home Alone 3 (1997).

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Born	John Wilden Hughes, Jr. 18 February 1950 Lansing, Michigan
Died	6 August 2009 (aged 59) New York City, New York
Zodiac	Aquarius
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Nancy Ludwig 1951-2019 · · m. ???? info edit

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John info 1st child with Nancy Ludwig Male b. 1976 · Age: 49 · 1976- · Celebrity Baby

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James info 2nd child with Nancy Ludwig Male b. 1979 · Age: 46 · 1979- · Celebrity Baby

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