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John Hughes Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer and writer. He was responsible for some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon`s Vacation, Ferris Bueller`s Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Home Alone and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Hughes was born in Lansing, Michigan to a mother who volunteered in charity work and John Hughes, Sr., who worked in sales. A 1968 graduate of Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Illinois, Hughes used Northbrook and the adjacent North Shore area for shooting locations and settings in many of his films, though he usually left the name of the town unsaid, or referred to it as "Shermer, Illinois", `Shermerville` being the original name of Northbrook. Hughes died on August 6, 2009 of a heart attack while in New York City visiting his family. In 1994, Hughes retired from the public eye and moved to Wisconsin, rarely granting or giving interviews or photographs to the media save a select few interviews in 1999 to promote the soundtrack album to Reach the Rock, an independent film he wrote. The album was compiled by Hughes` son, John Hughes III, and released on his son`s Chicago-based record label, Hefty Records. He also recorded an audio commentary for the 1999 DVD release of Ferris Bueller`s Day Off. A photograph of him visiting his son on the set of his son`s film in 2001 was the last photo taken of him in public. Hughs died of a hear attack while taking a walk in Manhatten.

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