E. Maurice "Buddy" Adler (June 22, 1909 – July 22, 1960) was an Academy Award-winning American film producer and a former production head for 20th Century Fox studios.

Born in New York City, New York, in 1940, he married actress Anita Louise Fremault (1915-1970) with whom he had two children.

In 1954, his production of From Here to Eternity won the Academy Award for Best Picture and in 1956, his Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing was nominated for best picture. Adler is also remembered for producing the 1956 film Bus Stop, starring Marilyn Monroe.

Adler was the recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1957. The following year he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. Buddy Adler died of lung cancer at the age of fifty-one in Los Angeles and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

While known mostly for his activities as a film producer, Maurice Buddy Adler attended both Columbia and Pennsylvania universities and wrote fiction short stories for magazines prior to becoming involved in the film industry. In 1936 he joined MGM Pictures as a writer for the regular series of short subjects that were popular at the time. He married actress Anita Louise in 1940 and served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War II, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After the war he returned to MGM as a producer for a year and then moved to Columbia Pictures as a producer from 1949 to 1953. There he earned an Academy Award as producer of the Best Picture of the Year for 1953, From Here to Eternity (1953). He left Columbia Pictures shortly thereafter and joined 20th Century-Fox, where in 1956 he succeeded Darryl F. Zanuck as Head of Production. He remained there until his death in 1960. He was the producer at Fox on a number of very successful films, many of which still enjoy a following today. Among those are Bus Stop (1956), Hatful of Rain, A (1957), South Pacific (1958), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Left Hand of God, The (1955) and Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The (1958). Sadly both he and his wife died young, he at 51 from lung cancer and Miss Louise at 55 as the result of a stroke.