John Badham
Directing
Awards
Won 1 The George Pal Memorial Award Award
The George Pal Memorial Award 1 won
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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 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.
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Filmography
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Directing
50 credits
Supernatural
Criminal Minds
Arrow
Psych
Heroes
The Shield
Las Vegas
Crossing Jordan
12 Monkeys
Nikita
Cannon
Night Gallery
In Plain Sight
Siren
The Streets of San Francisco
Constantine
Police Story
Stitchers
Men in Trees
Short Circuit
Rush Hour
WarGames
Saturday Night Fever
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
The Event
Blind Justice
Bird on a Wire
Nichols
Blue Thunder
The Sixth Sense
The Hard Way
Stakeout
Nick of Time
Point of No Return
Drop Zone
Another Stakeout
Dracula
The Jack Bull
Sarge
Cool Million
Just Legal
The Bold Ones: The Senator
American Flyers
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Incognito
Meatballs
Evel Knievel
Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Isn't It Shocking?
Acting
10 credits
Crossing Jordan
Saturday Night Fever
Point of No Return
Drop Zone
The Craft of Dirty Harry
In Search of Tomorrow
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
Producing
10 credits
Night Gallery
Blind Justice
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Stakeout
Nick of Time
Drop Zone
Another Stakeout
Night Gallery
Disorganized Crime
Dial Hot Line
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