Earl Metcalfe (March 11, 1889 – January 26, 1928) was an American actor.

Born in 1889, Metcalfe appeared in the films The Fortune Hunter, While New York Sleeps, What Women Will Do, White Eagle, While Justice Waits, The Great Night, Look Your Best, Skid Proof, Fair Week, The Silent Accuser, Silk Stocking Sal, The Man Without a Country, The Ship of Souls, Partners Again, With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail, The Midnight Sun, The Call of the Klondike, The Midnight Message, The Mystery Club, Atta Boy, Love's Blindness, Remember, The Notorious Lady, and The Devil's Saddle, among others.

[2] Metcalfe died during a flight in a biplane in 1928 over Glendale or Burbank California.

Various sources have Metcalfe falling from the airplane or jumping from it, indicating a suicide.

The plane is reported to have been looping-the-loop or in a barrel roll, two different aerial maneuvers.