Ernst Laemmle (1900–1950) was a German screenwriter and film director. He was the nephew of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle and like many of his relatives he was brought over to America to work for the studio. Ernst directed a number of short western films during the silent era. He also directed films for Universal's German subsidiary.

During the 1930s he worked as Universal's foreign dialogue supervisor.^[1] He was the brother of director Edward Laemmle who was also employed by Universal.