John Hughes was born as John Wilden Hughes Jr on 18th February 1950 in Lansing, Michigan. His father used to be involved in sales while his mother used to volunteer in most of the social activities across the community. He was born in Pointe Grosse and had three sisters but most of his childhood years were spent in Pointe Grosse.
John Hughes Net Worth?
John Hughes was an American movie director, producer and screenwriter and before he died in 2009 he was worth $150 million. John Hughes is probably most famous for bringing some of the biggest movie hits of the eighties into existence, such as “Sixteen Candles,” “National Lampoon’s Family Vacation,” “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles,” as well as the “Home Alone” movies.
Movies produced by him yielded $ 1.4 billion dollars at international box office. This probably might have helped to drive the success of the two ‘Home Alone’ movies whose gross totaled $834 million.
Early Life
During his childhood, he uses to take a lot of time thinking and dreaming since there were no many children in the neighborhood he could play with. During his teenager he liked Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso.
John has mentioned that when he was 13 years of his family shifted from Indiana to Northbrook, Illinois which is in the outskirts of the big city-Chicago. He went to Glenbrook North High School in which the population was even bigger than the previous school he had joined.
He felt the school was too large and he did not have many friends that he could hang out with him, so he used to spend most of his time in music and arts section He completed his high school dropout and joined the University of Arizona.
Career
Hughes got expelled from college after just a year or so and started selling jokes to big shots like Joan Rivers, Rodney Dangerfield among others. Finally, in 1970, the comic spirit of Thompson got him an opportunity for an entry-level job in Needham, Harper & Steers, a Chicago based advertising agency.
Later after a few years working for the company as a copy writer he left the company in 1974 and joined the international advertising company; Leo Burnett Worldwide. At this time John came up with the popular “Credit Card Shaving Test” commercial for the razor and shaving firm; The Edge.
In the ad’s, men were shown shaving their face with the credit card provided and flicking it against two sides of the face – one side was shaved with the advertised product and the other side – with a competitor one, and the difference in sounds was said to indicate the performance of the shave.
Death
Hughes passed on at the age of 59 on 5 August 2009 from complications as a result of prostate cancer in Manhattan. He collapsed due to a heart attack while strolling at West 55th Street and was transferred to Roosevelt Hospital where he was certified dead.
