Albert Band (born Alfredo Antonini;[1] May 7, 1924 – June 14, 2002) was a French-born American film director and film producer.

[5] He escaped from Paris to the United States with his family prior to the occupation of France during World War II.

Interested in film, he became an apprentice at Warner Bros.[6] where he developed contacts eventually becoming an assistant director on John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle,[7] then adapting the story The Red Badge of Courage for Huston's film of the same name.

[8] He made his debut as a producer and director in The Young Guns (1956), combining the two then-popular genres of Westerns and juvenile delinquent films.

In the late 1950s, he moved to Europe, producing a variety of films, beginning in Sweden with Face of Fire (1959), based on another of Stephen Crane's stories, The Monster.