John Hughes Net Worth

$150,000,000

John Hughes was an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and director who had a net worth of $150 million at the time of his death in 2009. He is best known for making some of the most iconic films of the eighties, including ‘Sixteen Candles,’ ‘National Lampoon’s Family Vacation,’ ‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles,’ and the ‘Home Alone’ films. Movies written by Hughes generated $1.4 billion at the global box office.

Key facts:

  • John Hughes was an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and director.
  • He is best known for making some of the most iconic films of the eighties, including 'Sixteen Candles,' 'National Lampoon's Family Vacation,' 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles,' and the 'Home Alone' films.
  • Movies written by Hughes generated $1.4 billion at the global box office.
  • The two 'Home Alone' movies earned $834 million, combined.
  • He wrote, directed, and co-produced the 1986 classic comedy 'Ferris Buller's Day Off,' starring Mathew Broderick.

Basic Information About John Hughes

CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Directors
ProfessionsFilm director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Actor
Net worth$150,000,000
Date of birth1950-02-18
Place of birthLansing
Date of death2009-08-06 (aged 59)
NationalityUnited States of America
GenderMale
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

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John Hughes roles

Movie / Series Role
Bad BoysCasper
Catch Me If You CanTom Fox
Righteous KillCharles Randall
Criminal MindsDetective Jake Moreland 1 episode, 2010
The SopranosWalden Belfiore 5 episodes, 2007
JAGLt. Bouchard 1 episode, 1999
Law & OrderMike Bodak / ... 2 episodes, 1992-1997
Law & Order: Criminal IntentBing Schorr 1 episode, 2007
Curb Your EnthusiasmAngry Driver 1 episode, 2004
MonkTrevor Howe 1 episode, 2003
JustifiedTerry Powe 1 episode, 2012
FlashforwardPress Secretary 1 episode, 2009
LegendsATF Commander 1 episode, 2014
24Tim Woods 23 episodes, 2009-2010
BoomtownOfficer Vincent Manzani 2 episodes, 2003
Homicide: Life on the StreetZithead Mazursky 2 episodes, 1995

Interesting Facts about John Hughes

  1. A major jazz fan, some of his favorite artists include Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash.
  2. Plays the drums and studied jazz at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachussetts
  3. Is a published poet and was in the same issue of the New York Quarterly as his favorite writer Charles Bukowski.
  4. Worked with Al Pacino and J.J. Johnston in the play American Buffalo in a staged reading at the Tiffany Theater.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Lived two blocks from the Actors Studio in Hell's Kitchen.
  8. 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.
  9. Is of Irish and Italian descent.
  10. Has been a practicing Buddhist since 1990 and took precepts into the Kwan Um School (a Korean Buddhist lineage) in 2003.
  11. Committed the last murder on ''The Sopranos''.

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