The Actor Who Disappeared (Italian: L'attore scomparso) is a 1941 Italian comedy mystery crime film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Vivi Gioi, María Mercader and Giulio Donadio.

A young actor, frustrated by the negligible roles he keeps being cast in, plans a hoax.

The play he is appearing in, involves his character being shot dead while hiding in a cupboard by an outraged husband.

However, when the door is opened he has completely vanished forcing the management to return the audience's money.

However, one of the spectators, a police officer had received an anonymous letter claiming that a murder was to take place at that theatre that night and begins an investigation.