# Harry Lange

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German production designer (1930–2008)

**Harry Hans-Kurt Lange** (December 7, 1930 – May 22, 2008) was a German film [production designer](/source/Production_designer) and [art director](/source/Art_director#In_film).

Lange was born in 1930 in [Eisenach](/source/Eisenach), [Thuringia](/source/Thuringia). After [World War II](/source/World_War_II), Thuringia became part of [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union)-controlled [East Germany](/source/East_Germany); Lange went across the border to [West Germany](/source/West_Germany), where he studied art before moving to the [United States](/source/United_States) in 1951. Upon arriving in the United States, Lange worked in [advertising](/source/Advertising). During the [Korean War](/source/Korean_War), Lange worked for the U.S. military, illustrating flying manuals.[1]

Subsequently, he began working at the [Army Ballistic Missile Agency](/source/Army_Ballistic_Missile_Agency) and then headed the future projects section at [NASA](/source/NASA), working on spacecraft designs alongside [Wernher von Braun](/source/Wernher_von_Braun). Whilst at NASA, Lange met the author [Arthur C. Clarke](/source/Arthur_C._Clarke), who introduced him to the film director [Stanley Kubrick](/source/Stanley_Kubrick).[2] Kubrick offered Lange a job at his production company, using his astronautical design experience to produce authentic prop and set designs for a project Kubrick and Clarke were working on entitled *Journey to the Stars*. The project was renamed as *[2001: A Space Odyssey](/source/2001%3A_A_Space_Odyssey_(film))* (released in 1968), and the film's design team, including Lange, were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Although *2001* lost to *[Oliver!](/source/Oliver!_(film))*, Lange and his team did win the [BAFTA Award for Best Production Design](/source/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Production_Design) in that year.

Although best known for *2001*, Lange worked on a number of well-known films during his career. He was art director for the [James Bond](/source/James_Bond) film *[Moonraker](/source/Moonraker_(film))*, and an astronautical consultant on *[Superman II](/source/Superman_II)*. He worked on the three first *[Star Wars](/source/Star_Wars)* films, as an art director and set decorator for *[The Empire Strikes Back](/source/The_Empire_Strikes_Back)* (for which he was again nominated for the [Art Direction Oscar](/source/Academy_Award_for_Best_Production_Design)) and *[Return of the Jedi](/source/Return_of_the_Jedi)* respectively; he also worked on the original Star Wars, although his work was uncredited. He worked as a [production designer](/source/Production_designer) on two films for the [Jim Henson Company](/source/Jim_Henson_Company): *[The Great Muppet Caper](/source/The_Great_Muppet_Caper)* (1981) and *[The Dark Crystal](/source/The_Dark_Crystal)* (1982). He was also production designer for the last [Monty Python](/source/Monty_Python) film *[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life](/source/Monty_Python's_The_Meaning_of_Life)*.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-times_1-0)** ["Harry Lange: film production designer"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100524031920/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4250001.ece). *www.thetimes.co.uk*. July 2, 2008. Archived from [the original](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4250001.ece) on May 24, 2010. Retrieved 2023-02-19.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-bbc_2-0)** ["Turning sci-fi into fact"](https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1247163.stm). *BBC News*. 2002-01-03. Retrieved 2023-02-19.

## External links

- [Harry Lange](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486127/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

- [Obituary at the Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jul/08/obituaries.culture)

v t e BAFTA Award for Best Production Design 1964–1967 Black and White Ken Adam (1964) Ray Simm (1965) Tambi Larsen (1966) No Award (1967) Colour John Bryan (1964) Ken Adam (1965) Wilfred Shingleton (1966) John Box (1967) 1968–present Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, and Anthony Masters (1968) Donald M. Ashton (1969) Mario Garbuglia (1970) Ferdinando Scarfiotti (1971) Rolf Zehetbauer (1972) Natasha Kroll (1973) John Box (1974) John Box (1975) Geoffrey Kirkland (1976) Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini (1977) Joe Alves (1978) Michael Seymour (1979) Stuart Craig (1980) Norman Reynolds (1981) Lawrence G. Paull (1982) Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli (1983) Roy Walker (1984) Norman Garwood (1985) Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta (1986) Santo Loquasto (1987) Dean Tavoularis (1988) Dante Ferretti (1989) Richard Sylbert (1990) Bo Welch (1991) Catherine Martin (1992) Andrew McAlpine (1993) Dante Ferretti (1994) Michael Corenblith (1995) Tony Burrough (1996) Catherine Martin (1997) Dennis Gassner (1998) Rick Heinrichs (1999) Arthur Max (2000) Aline Bonetto (2001) Dennis Gassner (2002) William Sandell (2003) Dante Ferretti (2004) Stuart Craig (2005) Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland, and Jennifer Williams (2006) Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer (2007) Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo (2008) Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, and Kim Sinclair (2009) Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, and Doug Mowat (2010) Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo (2011) Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson (2012) Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn (2013) Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock (2014) Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (2015) Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock (2016) Paul D. Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, and Shane Vieau (2017) Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton (2018) Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales (2019) Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale (2020) Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos (2021) Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino (2022) Shona Heath, James Price, and Zsuzsa Mihalek (2023) Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales (2024) Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau (2025)

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