Arizona Wildcats: Alumni who could be the College GameDay celebrity picker
John Hughes – Film director, Producer, Screenwriter
John Wilden Hughes, Jr. was born February 18, 1950, and passed away at the age of 59 on August 6, 2009. Hughes is credited with launching the careers of such actors as Molly Ringwald, Michael Keaton, Matthew Broderick, Macaulay Culkin and Bill Paxton. His movie genre of choice was teen movies.
Most of his films, he had a character sing a Beatles song. Depending on your age, you should recognize all if not most of the following theatrical films he produced, here is a subset of the 38 of them:
- National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
- Sixteen Candles (1984)
- Weird Science (1985)
- The Breakfast Club (1985)
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
- Pretty in Pink (1986)
- Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
- She’s Having a Baby (1988)
- Uncle Buck (1989)
- Home Alone 1, 2 and 3 (starting 1990)
- 101 Dalmatians (1996)
- Maid in Manhattan (2002)
After John Hughes death, the Academy of Motion Pictures paid tribute to him with a retrospective of clips from his films, followed by cast members who performed in his works including Molly Ringwald, Matthew Broderick, Macaulay Culkin, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall and Jon Cryer.
This Wildcat dropped out of college and never graduated from the U of A, bless his soul.
John Hughes will make his pick from the heavens.
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