Biography
John Badham (b. 1939, Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom) is the son of an English actress and an American general. He grew up in Alabama and studied at Yale. He prepared for his feature debut, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976) with years of practice directing and producing for television. The following year he came out with the box-office smash Saturday Night Fever. Two adaptations of Broadway plays earned him accolades: Dracula (1979), with Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier, and Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981). Badham enjoyed further success at the box office with War Games (1983) and Stakeout (1987). He currently lectures at the American Film Institute and Yale University.
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Director
Movies | |
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2004 |
Evel Knievel (TV movie) |
2003 |
Footsteps (TV movie) |
2002 |
Obsessed (TV movie) |
Other’s Keeper |
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2000 |
The Last Debate (TV movie) |
1999 |
The Jack Bull (TV movie) |
1998 |
Floating Away |
1997 |
Incognito |
1995 |
Nick of Time |
1994 |
Drop Zone |
1993 |
Another Stakeout |
Point of No Return |
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1991 |
The Hard Way |
1990 |
Bird on a Wire |
1987 |
Stakeout |
1986 |
Short Circuit |
1985 |
American Flyers |
1983 |
Blue Thunder |
WarGames |
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1981 |
Whose Life Is It Anyway? |
1979 |
Dracula |
1977 |
La Fièvre du samedi soir |
1976 |
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings |
The Keegans (TV movie) |
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1974 |
Reflections of Murder (TV movie) |
The Godchild (TV movie) |
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The Gun (TV movie) |
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The Law (TV movie) |
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1973 |
Isn't It Shocking? (TV movie) |
1971 |
The Impatient Heart (TV movie) |
Producer
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1995 |
Nick of Time |
Actor
Movies | |
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1977 |
La Fièvre du samedi soir |
Guest
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1982 |
De película |
1979 |
Fantasy Film Festival |
1978 |
The 4th Annual People's Choice Awards |