John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker. He is best known for his coming-of-age teen comedy films which often combined magic realism with honest depictions of suburban teenage life. Actors whose careers Hughes helped launch include Michael Keaton, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Paxton, Matthew Broderick, Macaulay Culkin and members of the Brat Pack group. He died of a heart attack while out walking with his wife Nancy Ludwig in Queens, New York, in July 2009.
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John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker. He is best known for his coming-of-age teen comedy films which often combined magic realism with honest depictions of suburban teenage life. Actors whose careers Hughes helped launch include Michael Keaton, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Paxton, Matthew Broderick, Macaulay Culkin and members of the Brat Pack group. While out on a walk one morning in New York in the summer of 2009, Hughes suffered a fatal heart attack. His legacy after his death was honored by many, including at the 82nd Academy Awards by actors with whom he had worked such as Matthew BroDerick, Molly Ringwald, and AnthonyMichael Hall. Hughes was born on February 18, 1950, in Lansing, Michigan, to Marion Crawford, who volunteered in charity work, and John Hughes Sr., who worked in sales. He spent the first twelve years of his life in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He was an avid fan of the Beatles, and according to several friends, he knew a lot about movies and the Rat Pack. Hughes’ first stories, inspired by his family trips as a child, was later to become the basis for the film National Lampoon’s Vacation ’58. Among his other contributions to the magazine were the April Fools’ Day stories, the Vagina Monologues, and the April Fool’s Day stories. He died of a heart attack while out walking with his wife Nancy Ludwig in Queens, New York, in July 2009.
He leaves behind a wife, Nancy Ludwig, a cheerleader and his future wife, in high school, and a son, John WildenHughes Jr., who lives in Chicago, Illinois. He also leaves a wife and a daughter, Sarah, who he met at the University of Arizona, where he was a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He had a son with his first wife, Michael Hughes, who is now the director of the film Home Alone 2: Lost In New York and its sequels, Home Alone 3 and Home Alone 4: Lost in New New York. Hughes also had a daughter with his second wife, Amy, who died of cancer in 2010. He has a son who is also a film director and co-creator of the series Home Alone 5: The Last House on the Left. Hughes is survived by his wife and two daughters, who live in Chicago and Los Angeles, California, and have a son and daughter with their husband, Michael, who also works in the film industry. Hughes has three grandchildren and one great-grandchild, who was born in 2008. Hughes died on July 25, 2011. He left a wife in New Jersey. He and Nancy Ludwig have two sons, Michael and Michael Hughes Jr., and a step-daughter, Sarah. Hughes wrote and produced some of the most successful live-action comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s such as Home Alone, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast club.
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