Hugh Hamilton Wilson Jr. was an American film director, writer and television showrunner. He is best known as the creator of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank`s Place and as the director of the film comedies Police Academy (1984) and The First Wives Club (1996). In 2001, Wilson and John Grisham teamed up to make Mickey, an independent movie about little league baseball. Wilson died on January 14, 2018, in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 74 of lung cancer and emphysema.