Erich Johannes Bruno Ponto (14 December 1884 – 14 February 1957) was a German film and stage actor.

After his family had moved to Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, he attended the gymnasium secondary school in Altona and upon his Abitur exam began a study of pharmacy at the University of Munich, where he went to lectures delivered by physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, whose discovery of X-rays or Röntgen rays, had earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

[1] Ponto gave his debut on stage at the Stadttheater Passau in 1908, followed by engagements in Nordhausen, Reichenberg (Liberec), and Düsseldorf.

After World War II he appeared in Carol Reed's British thriller The Third Man (1949), playing a sinister physician in a supporting role.

In 1955 Ponto won the German Film Award as the "Best male actor in a Supporting role" for Himmel ohne Sterne (1955).