John O'Brien (born 1962 in Tunbridge, Vermont) is an American film director, sheep farmer, Justice of the Peace and politician.

The director refers to his style of filmmaking as "community cinema"[1] and his films as "anthropological comedies"[2] as his cast consists mostly of local friends and neighbors from Tunbridge who play themselves in fictional stories.

[3] The most famous of these, Man with a Plan, starred the dairy farmer and one-time politician, Fred Tuttle.

According to O'Brien, the film, in which Tuttle runs successfully for Congress, was inspired by 1979's Being There, a movie in which Peter Sellers plays a gardener named Chance, who becomes a trusted adviser to the presidency.

In 2018, O'Brien was the successful Democratic nominee for a seat in the Vermont House of Representatives.