---
name: "John Roberdeau"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-roberdeau"
fi1m_id: "john-roberdeau"
imdb_id: "nm0730535"
tmdb_id: 55870
wikidata_id: "Q11866760"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "17 August 1953"
died: "6 May 2002"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:18:19.398909+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 Roberdeau

## Identity

John Roberdeau

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-roberdeau
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-roberdeau
- **IMDb ID:** nm0730535
- **TMDB ID:** 55870
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11866760
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11866760, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730535/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55870

Producer. Born 17 August 1953 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA. Died 6 May 2002.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 17 August 1953, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA
- **Died:** 6 May 2002
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11866760, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730535/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55870

## Biography

John Roberdeau was an American film and theatre producer. In partnership with Robert Michael Geisler from the late 1970s, he worked on stage productions including the 1985 Broadway revival of *Strange Interlude*, which received a Tony Award nomination for Best Reproduction.

His film credits include executive producer on *Streamers* (1983) and *Secret Friends* (1991). Roberdeau produced Terrence Malick's *The Thin Red Line* (1998) alongside Geisler and Grant Hill; the film received seven Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture.

*Sources: imdb.com, grokipedia.com, web.archive.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Thin Red Line* (1998), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-thin-red-line.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *The Thin Red Line* (1998), Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-thin-red-line.md)
- *Secret Friends* (1991), Executive Producer
- *Streamers* (1983), Executive Producer
- *Lulu* (1978), as Alwa Schon

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1999: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Thin Red Line*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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