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Ernest Maas (January 22, 1892 - July 21, 1986) was a Silent-era screenwriter.

Maas first began working on silent films in 1920, when he created the scenario for Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. After settling in Hollywood, he would continue to make live in Los Angeles his whole life.

It was not until 1926 when Maas would write the entire script, beginning to end, for a movie, The Country Beyond. In 1927 he worked on the successful movie The Way of All Flesh, but he went uncredited.

In Hollywood, Maas married fellow screenwriter Frederica Sagor, a famous silent-era writer and Hollywood personality. The two wrote the original story that eventually became the 1947 film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim. Having no interest in adapting to "talking pictures," Maas never made or contributed to a film again. The couple lived together until his death in Los Angeles at the age of 94.