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John Badham
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Director, Producer Born: August 25, 1939 in Luton, England Biography:Born in England, John Badham became a naturalized American citizen at the age of seven. He received a BA and MFA at Yale University, which he attended before and after his military service. He worked his way up the professional ladder at Universal Studios; his first directorial assignments included the trailers (or coming-attraction reels) of the studio's features. In the early 1970s, Badham gained a good reputation as an able director of made-for-TV movies. It was his handling of the 1974 docudrama "The Gun" that won Badham his first theatrical-feature assignment, the 1975 baseball flick "The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings" (Badham was a last-minute choice when Steven Spielberg suddenly priced himself out of the film's budget thanks to "Jaws"). Badham's first bona-fide--and indeed, one of the biggest moneymakers of the 1970s--was the disco-driven "Saturday Night Fever" (1977). The... Full Biography
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