Robert Allen Ackerman was an American director.

A protégé of famed theatrical producer Joseph Papp, Ackerman received two of his five career Emmy nominations for directing and producing the 2001 miniseries Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, starring Judy Davis.

He received two more Emmy nominations two years later for directing Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, starring Anne Bancroft and Helen Mirren, and for executive producing the HBO telefilm My House in Umbria, starring Maggie Smith.

Other telefilms he directed included Mrs. Cage, David's Mother, Double Platinum, Forget Me Never, and The Reagans.

Ackerman died January 10, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. He was 77.