John Badham
出生 : 1939-08-25, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
略歴
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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.
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Self - Director / Associate Producer
A career overview of tv/film composer Billy Goldenberg.
Self - Interviewee
A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artist who made them and by those who were inspired to turn their visions into reality.
Director
The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of Myrl's horses and their Crow Indian caretaker, Billy. When Judge Wilkins throws out Myrl's complaint, the war he wages to force Ballard to nurse the emaciated animals back to health escalates into a vigilante manhunt, murder and the possible defeat of Wyoming's bid for statehood.
An interview with John Badham.
Self
Baker's journey in completing Nicolas Cage's "Inconceivable" and exclusive interviews with top directors recounting their experiences with their first films.
Himself
John Travolta, Barry Gibb and the Saturday Night Fever cast and crew tell the story behind the mega-hit film. Bruno Tonioli goes through the disco steps that made movie history.
Himself
A portrait of legendary American film company Troma, Inc., an independent New York-based production house that has specialized in Z-films for over 30 years, and of Troma's eccentric president Lloyd Kaufman.
Self
An in-depth look at Dirty Harry (1971), featuring interviews with such film artists as Michael Madsen, 'Hal Holbrook', John Milius, 'Shane Black' and John Badham.
Self
A look at the cinematographers, editors, musicians, production designers and other talent of the Dirty Harry series.
Self
An unflinching look at the ongoing debate on violence in movies and its effect on the audience.
Self
Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.
Self
Making of 'Blue Thunder'
Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dracula" (1979).
Director
Legendary daredevil Robbie "Evel" Knievel (George Eads) is profiled in this action-packed biopic helmed by John Badham. Long before extreme sports became ubiquitous, the hard-living exhibitionist vaulted his motorcycle over steep canyons, crates of venomous snakes and snarling cougars. But as Knievel amassed wealth and world records (along with 35 broken bones), his taste for liquor and ladies equaled his appetite for adventure.
Director
Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything about her, and two men — one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama.
Director
A woman claims she had an affair with a married neurosurgeon and stands trial for allegedly harassing him.
Director
The FBI sought the help of Lucinda Pond, a former agent of the body, to try to locate the author of a series of murders that allegedly may have committed his brother. Lucinda, who left the police years ago, decides to help reluctantly convinced by an old boyfriend. The tracks are directly related to the abuse that Lucinda and her brother suffered during his childhood, which seems to be in the suspect has caused a serious psychological disorder.
Don Beard
A presidential debate, unconfirmed rumors and four reporters who take the political process into their own hands. With the election only a week away, the two candidates square off in a final debate. The televised event takes a dramatic turn when the moderator and three panelists confront one of the candidates with unconfirmed rumors and allegations. The debate quickly turns into a witch hunt and destroys one politician's career. They also give Tom Chapman, the up-and-coming reporter investigating the panel's ambush, the story of a lifetime: What went on behind the last debate.
Director
A presidential debate, unconfirmed rumors and four reporters who take the political process into their own hands. With the election only a week away, the two candidates square off in a final debate. The televised event takes a dramatic turn when the moderator and three panelists confront one of the candidates with unconfirmed rumors and allegations. The debate quickly turns into a witch hunt and destroys one politician's career. They also give Tom Chapman, the up-and-coming reporter investigating the panel's ambush, the story of a lifetime: What went on behind the last debate.
Director
After losing custody of her infant child to her domineering husband, a distressed woman's cross country search for family becomes a journey of self discovery and redemption.
Director
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
Producer
元妻の葬儀を終え、娘を連れてL.A.駅に降り立った平凡な税理士ワトソンは、警官を名乗る男女に娘を人質にされ、時間内に女性州知事の暗殺を命じられる。彼は必死に暗殺を回避しようとするのだが、あらゆるところに監視の目が光っていた。時間だけが刻々と過ぎる中、孤立無援のワトソンは、知事の女性秘書の協力を得る。
Director
元妻の葬儀を終え、娘を連れてL.A.駅に降り立った平凡な税理士ワトソンは、警官を名乗る男女に娘を人質にされ、時間内に女性州知事の暗殺を命じられる。彼は必死に暗殺を回避しようとするのだが、あらゆるところに監視の目が光っていた。時間だけが刻々と過ぎる中、孤立無援のワトソンは、知事の女性秘書の協力を得る。
Yacht Captain (uncredited)
A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.
Executive Producer
A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.
Director
A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.
Director
クリスとビルの凸凹刑事コンビに下った今回の仕事は、犯罪組織から命を狙われ雲隠れした裁判の証人が連絡を入れるであろう豪華別荘住まいのオハラ夫妻宅を張り込んで証人を保護すること。しかし張り込み早々、夫妻と“お近付き”になってしまい、夕食に二人を招待しその真っ最中にビルがオハラ宅に盗聴器を仕掛けるはずが何者かに襲われ、捕らわれの身になってしまう。
Executive Producer
ブルース・リーの生涯をリンダ夫人の著書「ブルース・リー・ストーリー」と『燃えよドラゴン』の監督ロバート・クローズの著書“Bruce Lee: The Beginning”を原作に映画化。 ブルース・リーが自分や息子ブランドンを狙う悪魔の幻影を見るという場面を折り込む事によって、彼の悲劇的運命を強調する効果を上げている（ブランドン・リーもこの映画の公開前に事故死した）。 ブルース・リーを演じたジェイソン・スコット・リーはこれ以来、ブルース・リー本人も行っていた截拳道のトレーニングを行なっている。
Room-Service Waiter
警官を殺害し死刑判決を受けた囚人マギー・ヘイワードは、政府の秘密組織の工作員にスカウトされる。
担当官ボブは、マギーの素質を見抜き”暗殺者”に育てる訓練を受けさせるが、情緒不安定で反抗的な彼女は排除されそうになる。
ボブは根気よく彼女に接し、やがて心を開いたマギーは訓練を終了し、身分を変えて社会に出て行く。
マギーは、恋人Ｊ・Ｐとの同棲生活を始めて、同時に任務も遂行する中で、次第に平凡な女性に戻りたいという思いが芽生える・・・。
Director
警官を殺害し死刑判決を受けた囚人マギー・ヘイワードは、政府の秘密組織の工作員にスカウトされる。
担当官ボブは、マギーの素質を見抜き”暗殺者”に育てる訓練を受けさせるが、情緒不安定で反抗的な彼女は排除されそうになる。
ボブは根気よく彼女に接し、やがて心を開いたマギーは訓練を終了し、身分を変えて社会に出て行く。
マギーは、恋人Ｊ・Ｐとの同棲生活を始めて、同時に任務も遂行する中で、次第に平凡な女性に戻りたいという思いが芽生える・・・。
Executive Producer
Suspense tale -- a pilot to a prospective series -- involving a criminal psychologist, struggling to rebuild his life after his wife is brutally murdered by a patient, and a lady lawyer who enlists his help in solving a baffling crime.
Director
パーティ・クラッシャーと呼ばれる連続殺人犯を追うNY市警の刑事モスの下に、演技派転向を狙うアイドル・スター、ラングが刑事の役づくりを目的にやって来た。案の定、ラングは連続殺人鬼を追うモスの邪魔ばかりして……。マイケル・J・フォックス、ジェームズ・ウッズ主演によるアクション・コメディ
Director
敏腕女性弁護士マリアンヌはある日、死んだはずの婚約者リックとそっくりな男に出会う。戸惑う彼女がその男の素性を知った時、2人を狙う組織の影があった。メル・ギブソンとゴールディ・ホーンの共演で送るアクション。
Executive Producer
Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are! By the time the gang hits the bank vault, it's a safe bet there's going to be organized insanity and disorganized crime!
Producer
シアトル市警の刑事コンビ、中年のクリスと若手のビルはFBIの依頼で、刑務所を脱走した凶悪犯リチャードを逮捕すべく、彼の恋人マリアを24時間監視することに。だが美しいマリアに好意を抱いたクリスは、大胆にも彼女の家に出入りするようになるなど、相棒のビルですらあきれる行動へ。一方、リチャードは警察のパトカーと猛烈なカーチェイスを繰り広げるなどの事件を繰り返しながら、少しずつマリアの家に近づいていく。
Director
シアトル市警の刑事コンビ、中年のクリスと若手のビルはFBIの依頼で、刑務所を脱走した凶悪犯リチャードを逮捕すべく、彼の恋人マリアを24時間監視することに。だが美しいマリアに好意を抱いたクリスは、大胆にも彼女の家に出入りするようになるなど、相棒のビルですらあきれる行動へ。一方、リチャードは警察のパトカーと猛烈なカーチェイスを繰り広げるなどの事件を繰り返しながら、少しずつマリアの家に近づいていく。
Director
軍事用に開発されたロボットが落雷によってショート、人間的な感情を持ち始める。ナンバーファイブと名づけられたそのロボットは基地から脱走、軍は彼を破壊しようと追跡を開始する。偶然、ナンバーファイブと知り合った女性との交流をからめた、ロボット版「E.T.」。
Director
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.
Director
コンピュータ・マニアの高校生デビッドは，ゲーム会社のネットワークに不正アクセスして発売前の最新ゲームを盗み出そうとする。アクセスに成功し画面に現れたのは，あらゆる状況を想定した戦争シミュレーションのリストだった。大喜びのデビッドは「全面熱核戦争」を選びゲームを始める。攻撃目標はラスベガスと地元シアトルだ。同時刻、北米大陸防空司令部の戦略コンピュータは、ラスベガスとシアトルに核ミサイルが接近中とのミサイル警報を発令する。
Director
来るロサンゼルスオリンピックに向けてのテロ対策と警備強化を名目に、カリフォルニア州当局は陸軍と合同で秘密裏に攻撃ヘリコプター「ザ・スペシャル」ことブルーサンダーを開発し、ロサンゼルス市警察に配備した。 州当局の意向で運用試験のパイロットに選ばれたベトナム帰りの警察航空隊員フランク・マーフィーは、コンビを組む航空観測員・ライマングッドを伴ったブルーサンダーのテスト飛行中に、連邦地方庁舎の一室で行なわれていた州政府関係者の密議を盗聴、録画してしまう。それは、ブルーサンダーの能力をアピールするためのヒスパニック地区での暴動煽動、また反対派を暗殺する「ソア（THOR= Tactical Helicopter Offensive Response 戦術ヘリ攻撃対応）計画：騒乱鎮圧への軍用ヘリ活用」に関するものだった。しかも、ベトナム時代の上官でブルーサンダーの開発にも携わる陸軍大佐・コクランが陰謀に一枚噛んでおり、直前に起きていた市議会委員長殺害事件に絡む謎の言葉“THOR”はこの陰謀の事だった。 コクランらは証拠隠滅のためにライマングッドを殺害、マーフィーにその容疑がかけられる。マーフィーはブルーサンダーを強奪して逃走すると、別居中の妻ケイトにライマングッドが死の直前に隠した密議の録画ビデオをテレビ局の報道キャスター・ヒューイットに渡すよう託し、自らはロサンゼルス上空で権力と、そしてコクランの乗る軍用ヘリとの孤独な闘いを繰り広げる。
Director
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Director
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
Pedestrian #1 (uncredited)
ニューヨーク、ブルックリンに暮らす貧しいイタリア系青年のトニー。安い給料で面白くもない仕事、ゴタゴタばかりの家庭と、冴えない日常を送る彼は、土曜の夜になると着飾ってディスコに繰り出し、踊りまくることで日頃の鬱憤を晴らしていた。そんなある日、彼はディスコで新顔の女性ステファニーと出会う。そのダンスの腕前に魅了されたトニーは彼女をパートナーに誘い、ディスコダンス・コンテストの優勝を目指すのだが……。
Director
ニューヨーク、ブルックリンに暮らす貧しいイタリア系青年のトニー。安い給料で面白くもない仕事、ゴタゴタばかりの家庭と、冴えない日常を送る彼は、土曜の夜になると着飾ってディスコに繰り出し、踊りまくることで日頃の鬱憤を晴らしていた。そんなある日、彼はディスコで新顔の女性ステファニーと出会う。そのダンスの腕前に魅了されたトニーは彼女をパートナーに誘い、ディスコダンス・コンテストの優勝を目指すのだが……。
Director
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930s.
Director
A professional football player is accused of murdering the man who attacked his sister. His brother, an investigate reporter, sets out to prove his brother's innocence.
Director
Three Union POWs fleeing across the desert to escape both their Confederate pursuers and rampaging Apaches come across a dying woman and her infant child. They promise the woman that they will take care of the child and get it to safety, even though none of them knows anything whatsoever about children or babies.
Director
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
Director
The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.
Director
An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.
Director
Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.
Director
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
Director
A social worker has problems in her private life.
Associate Producer
The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.
Associate Producer
The head of a psychiatric telephone hotline inspires his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.
Associate Producer
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.
Producer's Assistant
The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.
