John Badham

ActorDirectorProducerProduction Aug 25 (age 86) Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK 1969–2022 (53 year career)

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Biography

John MacDonald Badham is an English-born American director of film and television, 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

Film

Supernatural

Director

Film

Criminal Minds

Director

Film

Siren

Director

Film

Arrow

Director

Film

Heroes

Director

Film

Constantine

Director

Film

The Shield

Director

Film

Psych

Director

Filmography

Acting (19)

Movies (18)

In Search of Tomorrow

2022

as Self - Interviewee

6.6

Romantic Mysticism: The Music of Billy Goldenberg

2022

as Self - Director / Associate Producer

King of my Kind: John Badham Remembers Dracula

2019

Becoming Iconic

2018

as Self

5.3

Saturday Night Fever: The Ultimate Disco Movie

2017

as Self

7.7

Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman

2009

as Himself

5.0

The Craft of Dirty Harry

2008

as Self

6.0

The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

2008

as Self

5.8

The Business End: Violence in Cinema

2008

as Self

8.0

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

2007

as Self

7.8

Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'

2006

as Self

The Special: Building Blue Thunder

2006

The Revamping of Dracula

2004

as Self

5.0

The Last Debate

2000

as Don Beard

Drop Zone

1994

as Yacht Captain (uncredited)

5.7

Point of No Return

1993

as Room-Service Waiter

6.2

Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder

1983

Saturday Night Fever

1977

as Pedestrian #1 (uncredited)

6.7

Television (1)

Crossing Jordan

2001

as Marty

7.2

Crew (75)

Movies (43)

Meatballs

2022

Director

Evel Knievel

Director

Footsteps

Director

Brother's Keeper

Director

Obsessed

Director

The Last Debate

Director

The Jack Bull

Director

Floating Away

Director

Incognito

Director

Nick of Time

Director

Nick of Time

Producer

Drop Zone

Director

Drop Zone

Executive Producer

Mood Indigo

Executive Producer

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

Executive Producer

Point of No Return

Director

Another Stakeout

Director

Another Stakeout

Executive Producer

The Hard Way

Director

Bird on a Wire

Director

Disorganized Crime

Executive Producer

Stakeout

Director

Stakeout

Producer

Short Circuit

Director

American Flyers

Director

WarGames

Director

Blue Thunder

Director

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Director

Dracula

Director

Saturday Night Fever

Director

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

1976

Director

5.9

The Keegans

1976

Director

The Law

1974

Director

Reflections of Murder

Director

The Gun

Director

The Godchild

Director

Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

1974

Director

Isn't It Shocking?

1973

Director

6.1

The Impatient Heart

1971

Director

Dial Hot Line

1970

Associate Producer

A Clear and Present Danger

1970

Associate Producer

Night Gallery

1969

Associate Producer

6.3

Deadlock

1969

Producer's Assistant

Television (32)

Siren

Director

Rush Hour

Director

12 Monkeys

Director

Stitchers

Director

Constantine

Director

Arrow

Director

Nikita

Director

The Event

Director

In Plain Sight

Director

Psych

Director

Heroes

Director

Men in Trees

Director

Supernatural

Director

Criminal Minds

Director

Blind Justice

Director

Blind Justice

Producer

Just Legal

Director

Las Vegas

Director

The Shield

Director

Crossing Jordan

Director

Police Story

Director

The Streets of San Francisco

Director

The Sixth Sense

Director

Cool Million

Director

Kung Fu

Director

Cannon

Director

Nichols

Director

Sarge

Director

Night Gallery

Director

Night Gallery

Producer

The Bold Ones: The Senator

1970

Director

3.0

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

1969

Director

4.0