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John Hughes Biography
Birth Name:John Wilden Hughes
Birth Place:Lansing, Michigan, United States
Profession Writer, Producer, Director, Actor, Soundtrack, Music department
Fast Facts
- Winner of a ShoWest Award for Producer of the Year in 1991
- Before getting into directing, was a writer for "National Lampoon" magazine in the 1970s
- Quote: "I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it․ I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on․"
- Famous for his 1980s teenage films such as "Sixteen Candles," "Pretty in Pink" and "She's Having a Baby․"
- Many of his films are set in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago
- Sometimes wrote using his pen name, Edmond Dantes
- Said to have inspired the Brat Pack movement in the 1980s
Awards
- 1993Stinker Award-Worst Resurrection of a TV Show: nominated
- 1997Stinker Award-Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing More than $100 Million Using Hollywood Math: nominated