Hugh Wilson

Born in Miami on August 21, 1943, into a Catholic family, Hugh Hamilton Wilson graduated in Journalism from the University of Florida. After spending many years in advertising, he tried his hand at television, as a producer and writer for the  Bob Newhart Show .

After writing and directing the theatrical comedy  The Bagel Report , and creating the hit series  Radio Cincinnatti , he achieved a surprise success directing Police Mad Academy , where various misfits take advantage of the city’s mayor deciding to allow anyone into the police force, due to the lack of officers fit for duty. It had no less than six sequels, each time worse, and also led to a television series in 1997. He himself made a cameo in the first installment, as an angry driver, since he appears in almost all of his films. 

In Spain, he filmed  Those Crazy Rustlers , a parody of western cinema, with a certain grace, but it did not quite hit the box office. He fared better with the successful  The First Wives Club , where  Goldie Hawn ,  Bette Midler  and  Diane Keaton  take revenge on their ex-husbands, who have left them for younger women, and with his best work, the tragicomic  Tess and her bodyguard. , a kind of  Driving Miss Daisy , with  Nicolas Cage  guarding a former first lady of the United States, played by  Shirley MacLaine . In addition, she directed Brendan Fraser in two films, the hilarious  Looking for Eve, and the failed  Dudley of the Mountain .

As for his personal life, he married Charters Smith in 1979, with whom he had five children, and who was by his side until his death.