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John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films Saturday Night Fever (1977), Dracula (1979), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Short Circuit (1986), Stakeout (1987), Bird on a Wire (1990), The Hard Way (1991) and Point of No Return (1993).
John Badham. Director: WarGames. English-born "Army brat" John Badham is the son of English actress Mary Hewitt and the stepson of an American Army general. Raised in Alabama and schooled at Yale, he cut his teeth producing and directing for TV before making his feature debut with The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976).
John Badham. Director: WarGames. English-born "Army brat" John Badham is the son of English actress Mary Hewitt and the stepson of an American Army general.
WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy.
May 5, 2024 · From Blue Thunder to Saturday Night Fever, we rank the best movies from iconic director John Badham.
John MacDonald Badham is an American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films Saturday Night Fever (1977), Dracula (1979), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Short Circuit (1986), Stakeout (1987), Bird on a Wire (1990), The Hard Way (1991) and Point of No Return (1993).
“John Badham on Directing: Notes from the Sets of Saturday Night Fever, War Games, and More. In it, he draws on 40-plus years in the industry to provide budding filmmakers with practical tips on working with actors, staging action scenes, and making sure that the film playing in their heads finds its way onto the screen as accurately as possible.
Mar 30, 2017 · It’s been 40 years, but Saturday Night Fever director John Badham still remembers the moment he knew the low-budget disco movie he filmed in and around the streets of Brooklyn was about to...
John Badham on Television. John got his start on Television, working his way up through the ranks during the years of the great TV production factory at Universal Studios. Today he continues that great tradition of exciting and engaging TV production by directing episodes of current shows when he isn't teaching film at Chapman University.
Veteran director John Badham (WarGames, Saturday Night Fever) shares stories from the sets of his most well-known films, reveals his role in casting, his views on the changing world of post-production, and which films he wishes he hadn’t made.
