John Badham
Directing
Born August 25, 1939 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Romantic Mysticism: The Music of Billy Goldenberg
Self - Director / Associate Producer
Meatballs
In Search of Tomorrow
Self - Interviewee
Becoming Iconic
Self
Siren
Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie
Self
Rush Hour
Stitchers
12 Monkeys
Constantine
Arrow
The Event
Nikita
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
Self
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
Self
The Craft of Dirty Harry
Self
In Plain Sight
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Self
Heroes
Men in Trees
Psych
Criminal Minds
Just Legal
Supernatural
Blind Justice
The Revamping of Dracula
Self
Evel Knievel
Footsteps
Las Vegas
Obsessed
The Shield
Brother's Keeper
Crossing Jordan
Marty
The Last Debate
Don Beard
The Jack Bull
Floating Away
Incognito
Nick of Time
Drop Zone
Yacht Captain (uncredited)
Another Stakeout
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Point of No Return
Room-Service Waiter
Mood Indigo
The Hard Way
Bird on a Wire
Disorganized Crime
Stakeout
Short Circuit
American Flyers
WarGames
Blue Thunder
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Dracula
Saturday Night Fever
Pedestrian #1 (uncredited)
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
The Keegans
The Godchild
Reflections of Murder
The Gun
The Law
Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
Isn't It Shocking?
Police Story
Cool Million
Kung Fu
The Streets of San Francisco
The Sixth Sense
Sarge
Nichols
Cannon
Night Gallery
The Bold Ones: The Senator
A Clear and Present Danger
Dial Hot Line
Night Gallery
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Deadlock