John Badham
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The ThumbScore for John Badham (76.3%) is the average audience approval rating across 9 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of John's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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.
Born 1939-08-25 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK.
On ThumbScore, John Badham appears in 9 films with an average audience score of 76.3%, most frequently in the Action genre.
Sources: TMDB
