Joe Napolitano (November 22, 1948 – July 23, 2016) was an American assistant director and television director born in Brooklyn, New York. As a first assistant director he worked on The First Deadly Sin, Brian De Palma's Blow Out, Scarface, Body Double, Wise Guys and The Untouchables, as well as The Pope of Greenwich Village, Throw Momma from the Train, Parenthood and The Fisher King. From the early 1990s he directed episodic television, including Quantum Leap, The X-Files, Picket Fences, Earth 2, The Pretender, Dawson's Creek, Strong Medicine and Boston Public. He died in Los Angeles.
