Gérard Bourgeois (born August 18, 1874, in Geneva, Switzerland (from French parents), and died December 15, 1944, in Paris, France) was a leading French film director during the silent era.

After ten years in the theater, Gérard Bourgeois became artistic director of Lux-films.

He directed many of the popular Nick Winter comedy mysteries starring Georges Vinter in the early 1910s including 1911's "Nick Winter et le vol de la Joconde" about an attempt theft of the Mona LisaNick Winter and the Theft of the Mona Lisa (1911) A Silent Film Review.

His other notable films include "Hamlet" (1910), "L'Aventurier" (1915), 1921 : "Un drame sous Napoléon (1921), "Faust" (1922) and "L'Homme sans nerfs" (1924).

At the beginning of World War I, he joined as a foreign volunteer with his son in the French army.