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Acclaimed Director John Hughes Dies at 59



US director John Hughes died this week after suffering a heart attack in New York, his spokeswoman announced.

The 59-year-old, who worked on movies such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, was on holiday in Manhattan with his family, The AP reports.

Hughes’s representative confirmed thatHughes, whose home as in Lansing, Michigan, was taking a morning walk when he suffered a heart attack.

He also  wrote the screenplays for Pretty in Pink and Home Alone, while he was  a producer role on Flubber and National Lampoon’s Vacation.

 

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