John Badham

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John Badham
Born	August 25, 1939 Luton, Bedfordshire  England
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1969 - present

John Badham (born August 25, 1939) is a film director. Though born in the United Kingdom (in Luton, Bedfordshire), John Badham was raised in the state of Alabama in the U.S. and became a naturalized citizen at the age of seven.

He attended Indian Springs School in Alabama and college at Yale University. He 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 decade-older brother of Mary Badham, Oscar nominated for her child-acting role in To Kill a Mockingbird. Outside of her only role as an adult, decades after John became well known, all of Mary's acting credits preceded his film/television credits by several years. John's wife, veteran model Jan Speck, is also 15 years his junior; unlike Mary, Jan has had assorted cameo roles in most of his projects, from the 1980s forward.

[edit] Filmography (selected)

• 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)

[edit] Publications

• Badham, John (2006). I’ll Be in My Trailer. Michael Wiese Productions. ISBN 1932907149. 

[edit] External links

• John Badham at the Internet Movie Database
• John Badham BFI database entry.

Persondata
NAME	Badham, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Film director
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luton, Bedfordshire  England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH