John Hughes

John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker. Beginning as an author of humorous essays and stories for National Lampoon, he went on to write and direct some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and early 1990s including the comedy National Lampoon's Vacation and the sequels National Lampoon’s European Vacation and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, the fish-out-of-water comedy Mr.