Joseph W. Sarno (March 15, 1921 – April 26, 2010) was an American film director and screenwriter.

One of the most prolific and distinctive auteurs to emerge from the proto-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1960s, Joe Sarno had written and directed approximately 75 theatrically released feature films in the sexploitation, softcore and hardcore genres as well as a number of  shot-on-video features for the '80s hardcore video market.