Harry Lachman

Biography

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 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. 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 1938 he married Jue Quon Tai. Lachman returned to painting in the 1940s. He died on March 19, 1975.

Directed

1. Our Relations (1936) — Director
2. Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936) — Director
3. Baby Take a Bow (1934) — Director
4. Castle in the Desert (1942) — Director
5. Murder Over New York (1940) — Director
6. Dead Men Tell (1941) — Director
7. Dr. Renault's Secret (1942) — Director
8. Charlie Chan in Rio (1941) — Director
9. It Happened in Hollywood (1937) — Director
10. Dante's Inferno (1935) — Director
11. The Beautiful Sailor (1932) — Director
12. When You're in Love (1937) — Director
13. George White's Scandals (1934) — Director
14. The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) — Director
15. The Man Who Lived Twice (1936) — Director
16. Face in the Sky (1933) — Director
17. Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933) — Director
18. They Came by Night (1940) — Director
19. The Devil Is Driving (1937) — Director
20. No Time to Marry (1938) — Director
21. Week-End Wives (1929) — Director
22. I Like it That Way (1934) — Director
23. Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 10: Fauny Business (1927) — Director
24. Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 9: Cold Feats (1927) — Director
25. Under the Greenwood Tree (1929) — Director
26. Insult (1932) — Director
27. Aren't We All? (1932) — Director
28. The Love Habit (1931) — Director
29. Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 1: Spooky Islands (1927) — Director
30. Song of Soho (1930) — Director
31. The Compulsory Husband (1929) — Director
32. The Yellow Mask (1930) — Director
33. The Outsider (1931) — Director
34. Nothing More Than a Woman (1934) — Director
35. The Midnight Gentleman (1931) — Director
36. The Dressmaker of Luneville (1932) — Director
37. Mistigri (1931) — Director
38. Dressed to Thrill (1935) — Director
39. Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 2: A Nasty Jar (1927) — Director
40. Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 6 (1927) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Treasures from Trash (1946) — Himself