Harry Lachman

Harry B. Lachman (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director.

He was born in La Salle, Illinois upon June 29, 1886. Lachman was educated at the University of Michigan since becoming a magazine and collection illustrator, contributing 4 colour illustrations to the 1907 work John Smith, Gentleman Adventurer by Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay. In 1911, he emigrated to Paris where he earned a substantial reputation as a say impressionist painter and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French government.

Lachman's combination in occupation pictures stemmed from his tilt as a set designer in Nice, leading to pretense on Mare Nostrum in 1925. He worked as a director in France and England past 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. Lachman returned to painting in the 1940s. He died on March 19, 1975.