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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).
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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).
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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).
- August 25, 1939
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).
- Films as Director
- Films as Producer
- Publications
On BADHAM: articles—
Brown, Jeffrey A. "Gender and the Action Heroine: Hardbodies and the Point of No Return," in Cinema Journal(Austin, Texas), Spring 1996. Quinlan, David, "John Badham," in Quinlan's Film Directors, London, 1999. Vincendeau, Ginette, "Highjacked," in Sight and Sound(London), July 1993. Wood, Robin, "Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula," in Mosaic: A Journal for the InterdisciplinaryStudy of Literature(Winnipeg, Manitoba), Winter-Spring, 1983.
On BADHAM: films—
John Badham: The Director's Director, 1982. Best known as the director of Saturday Night Fever, and a raft of flawed but popular thrillers, English-born director John Badham began his career working in television on series such as Night Gallery (1969), Nichols (1971) and Police Story (1973). He also made several TV movies of variable quality in the early 1970s before going on to establish the characteristic glossy style of his 1980s film output. Badham is notable for the number of different t...
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).
His interviews were so entertaining, his lessons so accessible, and his overall conversational tone so delightful—one book wasn’t enough! While the first book was mostly focused on the director-actor relationship, John Badham on Directing broadens the syllabus to other aspects of directing.
