Ivan Abramson (1869 – September 15, 1934) was a director of American silent films in the 1910s and 1920s.

[1] Abramson emigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire in the 1880s and soon became involved in the Jewish newspaper field.

In 1917, after success with pictures including One Law for Both and Enlighten Thy Daughter, he partnered with William Randolph Hearst to form the Graphic Film Corporation (GFC).

In 1923, Abramson and Sidney M. Goldin directed East and West, filmed in Austria and starring Molly Picon, and which had English and Yiddish subtitles.

[1] Abramson died on September 15, 1934, in New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, survived by his wife Liza Einhorn.