'Sixteen Candles,' 'Breakfast Club' director Hughes dead at 59

(CNN) -- John Hughes, the producer, writer and director whose 1980s films such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" offered a sharp-eyed look at teenagers and their social habits, has died, according to a statement from his representative. He was 59.
John Hughes was behind some of the most successful films of the 1980s.

Hughes died of a heart attack while taking a morning walk in Manhattan, according to the statement.