Film Director John Hughes dead at 59

**Death Bed** · August 6th, 2009, 06:02 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_253306.html

John Hughes, prolific director of such culturally significant films such as The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Home Alone has died suddenly of a heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip to Manhattan to visit family.

John Wilden Hughes, Jr., born on February 18th, 1950 in Michigan, was a self-made man whose career began as an advertising copywriter in Chicago. His films helped launch countless careers and revealed to a global audience the humor, sensitivity and nuances of everyday people in the suburbs of Chicago. In the last decade, he stepped back from the legacy he created to enjoy time with his family, maintain a functioning farm in northern Illinois and support independent arts. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Nancy, two sons, John and James, and four grandchildren.

The above is a statement from Rogers and Cowan

**jenthgr8** · August 6th, 2009, 06:04 PM

This makes me saddy sad.

**Nell** · August 6th, 2009, 06:04 PM

Well doesn't that fucking suck. He is one of my faves. i shall watch all his movies today and drink a beer in his memory.

**MichaelJCheaney** · August 6th, 2009, 06:11 PM

R.I.P. John Hughes....You were one of the best!

A functioning farm in Northern Illinois?

They still have those?

**Morbid** · August 6th, 2009, 06:29 PM

Well, now I know what I am doing this weekend. John Hughes Movie Marathon

**Akelda** · August 6th, 2009, 07:45 PM

This is really sad!! If it wasn't for Pretty in Pink and Breakfast Club I might not have had the guts to stand out and say a silent 'fuck you' to the teen cliques that surrounded us all. He'll be missed!

**groovy135** · August 6th, 2009, 07:46 PM

How sad, he was one of my favorite people, that does sound like a good idea,,,I really want to watch one of his movies rigth now R.I.P. you made a lot of us smile ☺