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John Badham
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Overview
Born
August 25
,
1939
·
Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Birth name
Charles John Smith
Height
6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
Mini Bio
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)
. Badham's breakthrough credit was the box office smash
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
, made the following year; other hits on his resume include
Blue Thunder (1983)
,
WarGames (1983)
, and
Short Circuit (1986)
.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
Family
Spouses
Julia Badham
(1992 - present)
Jan Speck
(November 19, 1983 - 1990) (divorced)
Bonnie Hughes
(December 28, 1967 - March 20, 1979) (divorced, 1 child)
Relatives
Mary Badham
(Sibling)
Self-verified on IMDbPro
Gender / Gender identity
Male
Trademarks
Frequently casts
Richard Dreyfuss
[Attribution] His films always end with the title card "A John Badham Movie".
Trivia
Directed one Oscar nominated performance:
John Travolta
in
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
.
Teaches film at Chapman University in Orange, California.
Brother of
Mary Badham
.
Producer
Michael Douglas
considered him as director of
Starman (1984)
but the job went to
John Carpenter
.
He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant:
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
.
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