Harry Lachman

{{Short description|American artist}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|6|29}}

| birth_place = La Salle, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|3|19|1886|6|29}}

| death_place = Beverly Hills, California, U.S.

| burial_place = Hollywood Forever Cemetery

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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.C.H. Forbes-Lindsay, John Smith: Gentleman Adventurer J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907. 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."Director Proves Kiplings Wrong" The Newark Advocate, Newark, Ohio, 05 Nov 1932, Sat • Page 5 Lachman returned to painting in the 1940s. He died on March 19, 1975.{{cite news |title=Harry Lachman, A Film Director. Former Painter Dead at 88 Decorated by French |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/21/archives/harry-lachman-a-film-director-former-painter-dead-at-88-decorated.html |quote=Harry Lachman, a painter and film director, died yesterday of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 88 years old. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 21, 1975 |access-date=2013-12-30 }}