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John Badham
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.
As director
Meatballs
Evel Knievel
Footsteps
Brother's Keeper
Obsessed
The Last Debate
The Jack Bull
Floating Away
Incognito
Nick of Time
Drop Zone
Point of No Return
Another Stakeout
The Hard Way
Bird on a Wire
Stakeout
Short Circuit
American Flyers
WarGames
Blue Thunder
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Dracula
Saturday Night Fever
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
The Keegans
Reflections of Murder
The Godchild
The Law
The Gun
Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
As actor
Romantic Mysticism: The Music of Billy Goldenberg
In Search of Tomorrow
King of my Kind: John Badham Remembers Dracula
Becoming Iconic
Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
The Craft of Dirty Harry
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
The Special: Building Blue Thunder
The Revamping of Dracula
The Last Debate
Drop Zone
Point of No Return
Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
Saturday Night Fever