Joe Martin (c. 1912 – after 1931) was a silent-era American film performer that appeared in approximately 20 one- and two-reel comedy shorts for Universal, several serials, the melodrama Black Orchid and its remake Trifling Women, the Irving Thalberg-produced Merry-Go-Round, the Max Linder feature comedy Seven Years Bad Luck, and two Tarzan movies. Joe Martin was marketed during his lifetime as a monkey, a "near-human ape," a chimpanzee, a gorilla, and a racist caricature of a man, but he was an orangutan.