---
name: "John Amodeo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-amodeo"
fi1m_id: "john-amodeo"
imdb_id: "nm0025127"
tmdb_id: 1212907
wikidata_id: "Q6218909"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "1 January 1901"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:40:58.312749+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."
---

# John Amodeo

## Identity

John Amodeo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-amodeo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-amodeo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0025127
- **TMDB ID:** 1212907
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6218909
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Amodeo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6218909, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025127/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212907

Producer and director. Born 1 January 1901 in Long Island, New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1901, Long Island, New York
- **Active:** 1998–2003
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 producing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (1), 2000s 87 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Amodeo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6218909, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0025127/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212907

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Arrested Development*](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md) (87)

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

## Biography

John Amodeo is an American television producer, line producer, unit production manager and former editor. He began his career as an editor, working on programmes for Johnny Carson, before joining the Directors Guild of America as an associate director and later moving into production executive roles.

Amodeo produced series including *Sports Night* (1998–2000), *Titus* (2000–2002), on which he also directed and oversaw the shift to high-definition videotape production, *Arrested Development* (2004–2006) and *Samantha Who?* (2007–2009). He later served as executive producer on *Last Man Standing* (2011–2021) and *Shifting Gears* (2025–). He received Primetime Emmy nominations for *Arrested Development* and Producers Guild of America awards for his work on the series.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *Arrested Development* (2003), Fi1m 87, Director, Supervising Producer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md)

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

- *Sports Night* (1998), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/sports-night.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Last Man Standing* (2011), series, Producer
- *Friends with Benefits* (2011), series, Producer
- *Samantha Who?* (2007), series, Producer, Supervising Producer
- *Arrested Development* (2003), series, Director, Producer, Supervising Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md)
- *Luis* (2003), series, Producer
- *The Pitts* (2003), series, Co-Executive Producer
- *Titus* (2000), series, Director
- *Sports Night* (1998), series, Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/sports-night.md)
- *On Our Own* (1994), series, Producer
- *Teech* (1991), series, Producer, Co-Producer
- *A Fine Romance* (1989), series, Writer

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