Paul Stanley (1922, Hartford, Connecticut - 2002) was an American television director.

Stanley worked in television from the early 1950s until the mid-1980s. His credits encompass all genres, extending to more than fifty prime time television series of the period, from Have Gun – Will Travel in 1957 to Charlie's Angels in the late 1970s, to MacGyver in 1985.

Stanley also received producer credit on a handful of TV series episodes in the 1960s and 1970s.

Television series credits (partial list)

• Appointment with Adventure (1955-1956)
• Goodyear Playhouse (1956-1957)
• Have Gun – Will Travel (1959)
• The Third Man (1959)
• Outlaws (1961)
• Dr. Kildare (1962)
• The Untouchables (1962)
• Combat! (1963)
• The Outer Limits (1964)
• Insight (1964-1980)
• Lost in Space (1965)
• Laredo (1965-1966)
• The Virginian (1965-1966)
• The Rat Patrol (1967)
• Mission: Impossible (1967-1968)
• Hawaii Five-O (1969-1977)
• Gunsmoke (1971-1972)
• Medical Center (1971-1975)
• Kojak (TV Series) (1973)
• The Streets of San Francisco (1974-1976)
• Baretta (1976-1978)
• The Six Million Dollar Man (1977)
• Charlie's Angels (1977-1979)
• The Love Boat (1978)
• Dallas (1978)
• Vega$ (1978-1979)
• Flamingo Road (1981)
• Lou Grant (1981-1982)
• Knight Rider (1982)
• The Fall Guy (1982-1983)
• The New Mike Hammer (1984)
• MacGyver (1985)
• William Tell (aka Crossbow) (1987)

Feature film credits

• Cry Tough (1959)
• Mission Impossible Versus the Mob (1968), based on the TV series Mission: Impossible
• Three Guns for Texas (1968) — one segment re-edited from the TV series Laredo
• Sole Survivor (1970)
• Cotter (1973)
• Moby Dick (1978)