Harry B. Lachman (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director.[1]
Harry Lachman | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 29, 1886 La Salle, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | March 19, 1975 (aged 88) |
| Burial place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
| Occupation | Artist |
He was born in La Salle, Illinois on June 29, 1886. Lachman was educated at the University of Michigan before becoming a magazine and book illustrator, contributing 4 colour illustrations to the 1907 work John Smith, Gentleman Adventurer by Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay.[2] In 1911, he emigrated to Paris where he earned a substantial reputation as a Post-Impressionist painter and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French government.
Lachman's interest in motion pictures stemmed from his position as a set designer in Nice, leading to work on Mare Nostrum in 1925. He worked as a director in France and England before settling in Hollywood in 1933. His credits include Down Our Street, Baby Take a Bow, Dante's Inferno, Our Relations, and Dr. Renault's Secret.
In 1928 he married Jue Quon Tai.[3] Lachman returned to painting in the 1940s. He died on March 19, 1975.[1]
Filmography
edit- Weekend Wives (1928)
- Under the Greenwood Tree (1929)
- Song of Soho (1930)
- The Compulsory Husband (1930)
- The Yellow Mask (1930)
- The Love Habit (1931)
- The Outsider (1931)
- The Man at Midnight (1931)
- Mistigri (1931)
- Insult (1932)
- The Dressmaker of Luneville (1932)
- The Beautiful Sailor (1932)
- Down Our Street (1932)
- Aren't We All? (1932)
- Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933)
- Face in the Sky (1933)
- Baby Take a Bow (1934)
- George White's Scandals (1934)
- I Like It That Way (1934)
- Nothing More Than a Woman (1934)
- George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)
- Dante's Inferno (1935)
- Dressed to Thrill (1935)
- Our Relations (1936)
- Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
- The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)
- When You're in Love (1937)
- The Devil Is Driving (1937)
- It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
- No Time to Marry (1938)
- They Came by Night (1940)
- Murder Over New York (1940)
- Dead Men Tell (1941)
- Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)
- The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
- Castle in the Desert (1942)
- Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
References
edit- ^ a b "Harry Lachman, A Film Director. Former Painter Dead at 88 Decorated by French". The New York Times. March 21, 1975. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
Harry Lachman, a painter and film director, died yesterday of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 88 years old.
- ^ C.H. Forbes-Lindsay, John Smith: Gentleman Adventurer J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907.
- ^ "Director Proves Kiplings Wrong" The Newark Advocate, Newark, Ohio, 05 Nov 1932, Sat • Page 5