John Badham
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John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an American film director.
Biography
Badham was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, the son of Mary Iola (née Hewitt), an actress, and Henry Lee Badham, a business executive and U.S. Air Force General. Badham was raised in the state of Alabama in the U.S. and became a naturalized citizen in 1950. He attended Indian Springs School in Alabama and college at Yale University.
Badham had worked for television for years before his breakthrough with Saturday Night Fever in 1977. As well as numerous film credits, Badham has also directed and produced for TV, including credits for Rod Serling's Night Gallery.
He is the older brother (by 13 years) of Mary Badham, Oscar nominated for her child-acting role in To Kill a Mockingbird. Brother and sister have never worked together on the same project, however. Even though she is younger, all of Mary's acting credits preceded John's film/television credits by several years. John's former wife, veteran model Jan Speck, 15 years his junior, has had assorted cameo roles in many of his projects, starting in the 1980s.
Filmography
- Saturday Night Fever (1977)
- Dracula (1979)
- Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
- Blue Thunder (1983)
- WarGames (1983)
- American Flyers (1985)
- Short Circuit (1986)
- Stakeout (1987)
- Bird on a Wire (1990)
- The Hard Way (1991)
- Point of No Return (1993)
- Another Stakeout (1993)
- Drop Zone (1994)
- Nick of Time (1995)
- Incognito (1997)
- The Jack Bull (1999)
