Harry Lachman

A former magazine illustrator, 'Harry Lachman' (qv) traveled to Paris in 1911 to begin an art career, and soon became recognized as a first-rate post-Impressionist painter. Decorated for his contributions to art by the French government, Lachman afterwards became a set designer at a film studio in Nice. In 1925 American director 'Rex Ingram' (qv) hired him as an assistant director on _Mare Nostrum (1926)_ (qv) and soon thereafter Lachman gave up his painting career and traveled to England to began a career as a film director. He returned to France and made several films, then journeyed to the U.S. in 1933 and settled in Hollywood. Mainly given B-pictures, his best films were a Laurel and Hardy comedy, _Our Relations (1936)_ (qv), and _Dante's Inferno (1935)_ (qv), where his painter's eye was evident in the intense ten-minute hell sequence. Lachman ended his career with a Charlie Chan movie in the 1940s, and returned to painting. His artworks can be seen in such museums as Spain's Prado and the Luxembourg Museum.::frankfob2@yahoo.com