Home Alone Director Dies
Aug 7, 2009 | Posted by bryan | 0 Comments
John Hughes, writer, producer and director behind a series of classic movies from the 80s and 90s, including Home Alone and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has died aged 59.
The filmmaker suffered a heart attack yesterday morning while on the way to see his family in New York, his spokeswoman Michelle Bega confirmed.
Hughes came to prominence in 1985 with his second film, The Breakfast Club, which marked him out as a maker of well-loved teen movies.
Further hits came with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink as well as bigger successes with the Home Alone films, and Christmas classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles featuring John Candy and Steve Martin.
Matthew Broderick, who played Ferris Bueller in the 1986 hit, said: “I am truly shocked and saddened by the news about my old friend John Hughes.”
He described the filmmaker as a “wonderful and very talented guy”.
The director wrote his last script, Curly Sue, in 1991 and gradually withdrew from public life and press interviews as he grew older.
Macaulay Culkin, who played Kevin McCallister in the first two Home Alone films, said that Hughes was “a great and decent man” and that the world had lost “a quintessential filmmaker”.