Harry B. Lachman (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director. 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. Lachman returned to painting in the 1940s. He died on March 19, 1975.
Filmography
- 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)