John Badham
Known for: Directing
Born: August 25, 1939
John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an British-born American director, 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 te…
Known for
Becoming Iconic
2018
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
2006
King of my Kind: John Badham Remembers Dracula
2019
Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
1983
The Special: Building Blue Thunder
2006
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007
The Craft of Dirty Harry
2008
The Revamping of Dracula
2004
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
2009
Romantic Mysticism: The Music of Billy Goldenberg
2022
Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie
2017
The Last Debate
2000
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
2008
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
2008
Crossing Jordan
2001
Point of No Return
1993
Saturday Night Fever
1977
In Search of Tomorrow
2022
Drop Zone
1994