Basic Information About John Hughes
| Category | Celebrities › Directors |
|---|---|
| Professions | Film director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Actor |
| Net worth | $150,000,000 |
| Date of birth | 1950-02-18 |
| Place of birth | Lansing |
| Date of death | 2009-08-06 (aged 59) |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Gender | Male |
| Social Media | ↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did John Hughes win?
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 Golder Raspberry |
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| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
John Hughes roles
| Movie / Series | Role |
|---|---|
| Bad Boys | Casper |
| Catch Me If You Can | Tom Fox |
| Righteous Kill | Charles Randall |
| Criminal Minds | Detective Jake Moreland 1 episode, 2010 |
| The Sopranos | Walden Belfiore 5 episodes, 2007 |
| JAG | Lt. Bouchard 1 episode, 1999 |
| Law & Order | Mike Bodak / ... 2 episodes, 1992-1997 |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Bing Schorr 1 episode, 2007 |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm | Angry Driver 1 episode, 2004 |
| Monk | Trevor Howe 1 episode, 2003 |
| Justified | Terry Powe 1 episode, 2012 |
| Flashforward | Press Secretary 1 episode, 2009 |
| Legends | ATF Commander 1 episode, 2014 |
| 24 | Tim Woods 23 episodes, 2009-2010 |
| Boomtown | Officer Vincent Manzani 2 episodes, 2003 |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | Zithead Mazursky 2 episodes, 1995 |
Interesting Facts about John Hughes
- A major jazz fan, some of his favorite artists include Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash.
- Plays the drums and studied jazz at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachussetts
- Is a published poet and was in the same issue of the New York Quarterly as his favorite writer Charles Bukowski.
- Worked with Al Pacino and J.J. Johnston in the play American Buffalo in a staged reading at the Tiffany Theater.
- Studied with famed New York acting teacher Sonia Moore, who taught him the Stanislavski Method. He went on to become one of the youngest lifetime members of the Actor's Studio in New York after he was accepted at the age of 19.
- In 1999, his intense dedication to his craft caused him to gain 58 pounds to prepare to play a man with Down's Syndrome. The film was postponed and in the interim, he was cast in Band of Brothers (2001) where he had two months to lose the weight in order to play a 17-year-old Wild Bill Guarnere. He went through a brutal routine of fasting and running 6-8 miles a day. Just before filming, a doctor told him that he had done serious damage to his adrenal system.
- Lived two blocks from the Actors Studio in Hell's Kitchen.
- A member of Teamsters local 814 in New York as a furniture mover, which he did on and off for ten years, to support his wife and child.
- Is of Irish and Italian descent.
- Has been a practicing Buddhist since 1990 and took precepts into the Kwan Um School (a Korean Buddhist lineage) in 2003.
- Committed the last murder on ''The Sopranos''.
