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John Badham

08/25/1939 (85 years old) | Luton, UK | Male | 163 cm (5'4")

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.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 terror, and holocaust, as well as being one of the first films to deal with the subculture of amateur hacking.In addition to his numerous film credits, Badham has also directed and produced for TV, including credits for Rod Serling's Night Gallery, and the A&E television series The Beast. He has also contributed commentary to the web series Trailers from Hell.Description above from the Wikipedia article John Badham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia?

John Badham Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	Night Gallery	90
2.	Saturday Night Fever	47
3.	Short Circuit	35
4.	WarGames	20
5.	Drop Zone	20
6.	Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story	16
7.	Bird on a Wire	13
8.	Nick of Time	10
9.	American Flyers	8
10.	The Hard Way	6
11.	Dracula	5
12.	Point of No Return	3
13.	Blue Thunder	0

Night Gallery

TV Show | United States | 12/16/1970 | Drama

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.

100%

Saturday Night Fever

Movie | United States | 12/16/1977 | Drama | Dance

Nineteen-year-old Tony Manero lives for Saturday nights at the local disco, where he's king of the dance floor. But outside of the club, things don't look so rosy. At home, he fights constantly with his father and has to compete with his family's starry-eyed view of his older brother, a priest. Then, he meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things; she is moving across the river to Manhattan. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the life he is leading and he and Stephanie decide to help one another to start afresh

6.8/10

83%

637

Short Circuit

Movie | United States | 05/09/1986 | Comedy | Robots

After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.

6.6/10

57%

WarGames

Movie | United States | 06/03/1983 | Action | Robots

High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions! Together with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

7.1/10

93%

319

Drop Zone

Movie | United States | 12/08/1994 | Action | Terorrism

A team of skydiving crooks led by DEA-agent-turned-bad Ty Moncrief (Busey) specialize in landing on police roofs and breaking in so their evil computer nerd can steal undercover agents' files and sell them to drug lords. Federal Marshal Pete Nessip (Snipes) lost a brother to this crew and learns skydiving with the help of tough-but-lovable instructor Jessie Crossmann (Butler) so he can track them down.

5.6/10

39%

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

Movie | United States | 05/07/1993 | Biography | Kung-fu

This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhod of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer and begins a meteroric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one the most charasmatic action heroes in cinema history.

7.0/10

74%

222

Bird on a Wire

Movie | United States | 05/18/1990 | Comedy | Buddies

A FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years, now an old flame has recognised him and the bad guys are back for revenge.

6.0/10

26%

212

Nick of Time

Movie | United States | 11/22/1995 | Thriller | Terorrism

Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.

6.3/10

33%

American Flyers

Movie | United States | 08/16/1985 | Drama | Cycling

When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace with his sibling, and invites him on a trip to the Rockies. There, the brothers bond over their shared enthusiasm for cycling and decide to enter a grueling bike race through the mountains. However, Marcus' health soon begins to fail, and David must compete without his brother at his side.

6.3/10

67%

The Hard Way

Movie | United States | 03/08/1991 | Comedy | Buddies

Action star Nick Lang decides that the best way to prepare for his next film is to spend some time in the trenches, a decision that leaves hardboiled cop John Moss with a \partner\ he doesnt want. Now Moss will have to find a way to catch a cold-blooded killer while tolerating his superficial Hollywood hanger-on.

6.3/10

74%

Dracula

Movie | United Kingdom | 07/20/1979 | Horror | Vampires

Throughout history he has filled the hearts of men with terror, and the hearts of women with desire. The story of the greatest lover who ever lived, died, and lived again.

6.4/10

59%

Point of No Return

Movie | United States | 03/19/1993 | Action | Hitman

6.1/10

52%

Blue Thunder

Movie | United States | 02/05/1983 | Action | Planes

Officer Frank Murphy, an experienced LAPD helicopter pilot, is given command of the advanced new \Blue Thunder\ chopper. But he begins to wonder why the LAPD would need a helicopter so powerful and why it is such a secret.

6.4/10

78%

317

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