John Badham
British-born American film director
0.72body-of-work score · ranked #1203 of 2631 directors · 1 film in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- August 25, 1939 · Luton
- Nationality
- United States, United Kingdom
- Work
- film director, television director, director
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1977 · United States · drama
National Film Registry (inducted 2010) · Siskel's annual top 10 1977 #5 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies
0.724 citations
Complete filmography
All 30 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1972No Place to Run
- 1973Isn't It Shocking?
- 1974Reflections of Murder
- 1974The Godchild
- 1974The Gun
- 1974The Law
- 1976The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
- 1976The Keegans
- 1977Saturday Night Fever
- 1979Dracula
- 1981Whose Life Is It Anyway?
- 1983Blue Thunder
- 1983WarGames
- 1985American Flyers
- 1986Short Circuit
- 1987Stakeout
- 1990Bird on a Wire
- 1991The Hard Way
- 1993Another Stakeout
- 1993Point of No Return
- 1994Drop Zone
- 1995Nick of Time
- 1998Incognito
- 1999The Jack Bull
- 2000The Last Debate
- 2002Brother's Keeper
- 2002Obsessed
- 2003Footsteps
- 2004Evel Knievel
- —Floating Away