The Breakfast Club Director John Hughes dead at 59

A spokeswoman for John Hughes says the director of 1980s coming-of-age films like “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club” has died in Manhattan.

Michelle Bega says the 59-year-old Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk. He was in Manhattan to visit family.

The Brat Pack

The Brat Pack was a defining part of the 80’s movie scene that included Molly Ringwald, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Keifer Sutherland,  Ally Sheedy, Anthony Micheal Hall, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Charlie Cheen, Judd Nelson, Sean Penn, Matthew Broderick, Ralph Macchio and many more.

80’s movie icons

Some of the movies that directed are the quin-essential What’s what of the 80’s – Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s day off, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Trains and automobiles, She’s having a baby, Some kind of wonderful, The Great outdoors, Curly Sue and many more great movies.

Hughes was born in 1950 in Michigan and began his career in the field of advertising. At the time of his death, he lived in Illinois and set many of his films in the Chicago area. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Nancy, with whom he had two sons, John and James.

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