Andrew Lysander Stone (July 16, 1902 – June 9, 1999) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Julie in 1957 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

Though few of his films achieved mainstream success, Stone was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his 1956 thriller Julie.

Stone's stories frequently featured characters called Cole, Pringle and Pope, usually in law enforcement and interchangeably played by the same actors—Jack Kruschen, Barney Phillips and John Gallaudet.

[4] At 20th Century Fox he earned acclaim for directing the 1943 film Stormy Weather, starring Lena Horne.

United Artists were pleased enough to offer him a deal to make four more films over eighteen months:[6] Bedside Manner (1945), The Bachelor's Daughters (1946), and Fun on a Weekend (1947).

[3] Stone signed a two-picture deal at MGM for whom he made Julie (1956), a thriller with Doris Day and Louis Jourdan, and Cry Terror!

[7]) Julie was a hit so MGM signed them to make four more movies: The Decks Ran Red (1959), The Last Voyage (1960), Ring of Fire (1961), and The Password Is Courage (1962) with Dirk Bogarde.

[8][9] He did Never Put It in Writing (1964) with Pat Boone for Allied Artists, filmed in England and Ireland.

The second was meant to be a history of aviation written by Ernest Gann, The Winning of the Sky, but it was never made.