Gajanan Jagirdar (2 April 1907 – 13 August 1988) was a veteran Indian film director, screenwriter and actor. He worked in Hindi Cinema, also called Bollywood, as well as Marathi cinema. The period of 1942 to 1947, saw his rise as a film director with Prabhat Films. He became a well-known pedagogue applying the acting theories of Stanislavsky to the prevailing local conditions. At the 1962 National Film Awards his film Vaijayanta was awarded the Second Best Marathi Feature Film.