John Nicolleta, who is best known for his directing and producing in the television series Miami Vice, worked in several films such as Born to Win, Crazy Joe and Sweet Revenge and as a production manager on the film Saturday Night Fever.
He is best known for his directing and producing work on the 1980s television series Miami Vice. Nicolella began his career working as an assistant director on the Ivan Passer-directed film Born to Win (1971). Other films soon followed, the Paul Newman-directed film The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972), Crazy Joe (1974) starring Peter Boyle, Sweet Revenge (1976) starring Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston and Time Square (1980). He was also as a production manager on the films Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Curse of the Pink Panther (1983). 
