Writer and director John Hughes, known for his films of the 80′s and 90′s that captured and cornered the teen and pre-teen market with such favorites as “Home Alone,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” died Thursday 6th August, a spokeswoman said. He was 59.
Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family.
Hughes was a native of Lansing, Michigan. He went from ad writer to comedy writer to silver screen writer with his idealized portraits of teens, whether in the form of the romantic and sexual insecurity of “Sixteen Candles,” or the J.D. Salinger-esque rebellion against conformity in “The Breakfast Club.”
His films made quite a list of little-known actors into big names, including John Cusack, Macaulay Culkin, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson and Steve Carell.
Hughes’ last directing credit was in 1991, for “Curly Sue”.
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