# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-badham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:03:06.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-badham"
name: "John Badham"
slug: "john-badham"
description: "John Badham is an American film and television director, best known for directing the films Saturday Night Fever (1977), Dracula (1979), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Short Circuit (1986), Stakeout (1987), Bird on a Wire (1990), The Hard Way (1991), Point of No Return (1993), Drop Zone (1994), and Nick of Time (1995). He is a two-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee, a two-time Hugo Award nominee, and a Saturn Award winner. He is also a Professor at Chapman University."
tagline: "British-born American film director"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/JohnBadhamQA.jpg/330px-JohnBadhamQA.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-08-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.6
  momentum:             0.1989462923645514
  historical:           21.46692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000824/"
    handle:    "nm0000824"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johnbadham.com"
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    title: "Джон Бедем"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "John Badham"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump