Carl Metcalfe Fick (September 23, 1918 – February 23, 1990) was an American documentary film director and author. He was best known for the Cannes award-winning short docudrama A Day in the Death of Donny B (1969), as well as his novels The Danziger Transcript (1971) and A Disturbance in Paris (1982). He also co-authored and ghost wrote From Mexico with Death (1977) with Jose Luis Guzman.