- BIRTH 25/08/1939
- Country United Kingdom
- SHOW 1
- MOVIE 1
- DIRECTOR 41
- PRODUCTION 6
John Badham
John MacDonald Badham is an English-born American director of film and television, best known for the films Saturday Night Fever (1977), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Short Circuit (1986), and Stakeout (1987).
Badham worked in television for years, before his breakthrough in 1977 with Saturday Night Fever, a massive worldwide hit starring John Travolta. WarGames (1983), starring Matthew Broderick, is his other signature film, renowned for its take on popular Cold War fears of nuclear terror, and holocaust, as well as being one of the first films to deal with the subculture of amateur hacking.
In addition to his numerous film credits, Badham has also directed and produced for TV, including credits for Rod Serling's Night Gallery, and the A&E television series The Beast. He has also contributed commentary to the web series Trailers from Hell.
Show
Movie
Director (41)
WarGames
Saturday Night Fever
Bird on a Wire
Stakeout
Drop Zone
Short Circuit
The Hard Way
Nick of Time
Point of No Return
Dracula
Blue Thunder
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Incognito
The Jack Bull
Obsessed
American Flyers
Another Stakeout
Production (6)
Stakeout
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Drop Zone
Nick of Time
Disorganized Crime
Another Stakeout
