Name Harry Lachman Role Artist | Spouse Quon Tai (m. 1938–1975) | |
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Died March 19, 1975, Beverly Hills, California, United States Movies Dante's Inferno, Our Relations, Baby Take a Bow, Dr Renault's Secret, Charlie Chan at the Circus Similar People Sidney Toler, Alan Dinehart, Shepperd Strudwick, Daphne Pollard, Victor Sen Yung |
Harry B. Lachman (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director.
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Biography
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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.
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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.
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In 1938 he married Jue Quon Tai. Lachman returned to painting in the 1940s. He died on March 19, 1975.
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