Kill the Umpire is a 1950 baseball comedy film starring William Bendix and Una Merkel, directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Frank Tashlin.

During a period of unemployment, needing a job to support his loyal wife Betty and two daughters, Johnson is forced by his father-in-law to matriculate in an umpire school.

Johnson initially tries to get himself expelled by school director Jimmy O'Brien, but after being called upon to umpire a children's game, he eventually comes to dedicate himself to his new job.

Johnson must disguise himself as a woman, and engage in several madcap subterfuges, to get to an important game on time, but his reputation is restored when the injured catcher recovers and praises him for his honesty as an umpire.

The film's climax is a manic chase scene, scripted by animator and future Jerry Lewis director Frank Tashlin.