---
name: "Joe Hardesty"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joe-hardesty"
fi1m_id: "joe-hardesty"
imdb_id: "nm4028674"
tmdb_id: 1516870
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:06:04.354905+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joe Hardesty

## Identity

Joe Hardesty

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joe-hardesty
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joe-hardesty
- **IMDb ID:** nm4028674
- **TMDB ID:** 1516870
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4028674/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1516870

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 producing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 31 (1), 2020s 59 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4028674/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1516870

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Let's Kill Ward's Wife*](https://film.one/film/lets-kill-wards-wife.md) (31)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Joe Hardesty is a producer and occasional actor. He produced the 2014 black comedy film *Let's Kill Ward's Wife*, in which he also appeared as Jimmy.

Hardesty has worked as co-executive producer or executive producer on television series including *American Vandal* (2017–2018), *No Activity* (2017–2021) and *Dead to Me* (2019–2022). His film producing credits include *Ride the Eagle* (2021) and *Self Reliance* (2023).

He is an Emmy nominee.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, metacritic.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Let's Kill Ward's Wife* (2014), Fi1m 31, as Jimmy — [page](https://film.one/film/lets-kill-wards-wife.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Dink* (2026), Fi1m 59, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-dink.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Dink* (2026), Executive Producer — Fi1m 59, [page](https://film.one/film/the-dink.md)
- *Self Reliance* (2024), Producer
- *Players* (2022), series, Co-Executive Producer
- *Ride the Eagle* (2021), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *Dead to Me* (2019), series, Co-Executive Producer, Producer
- *No Activity* (2017), series, as Police Photographer
- *American Vandal* (2017), series, as American Fandal Rizzo · Co-Executive Producer
- *Ferrell Takes the Field* (2015), Co-Executive Producer
- *Backup Boyfriend* (2015), as Adam
- *Let's Kill Ward's Wife* (2014), as Jimmy · Producer — Fi1m 31, [page](https://film.one/film/lets-kill-wards-wife.md)
- *A Better You* (2014), as Ed
- *CollegeHumor Shorts* (2007), series, as Thug #2 · Set Designer, Production Coordinator

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