---
name: "Donald Lee Harris"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/donald-lee-harris"
fi1m_id: "donald-lee-harris"
imdb_id: "nm0364640"
tmdb_id: 33562
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "13 August 1944"
died: "1 November 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:05:44.531618+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Donald Lee Harris

## Identity

Donald Lee Harris

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/donald-lee-harris
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** donald-lee-harris
- **IMDb ID:** nm0364640
- **TMDB ID:** 33562
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364640/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33562

Production designer. Born 13 August 1944 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Died 1 November 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 13 August 1944, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- **Died:** 1 November 2022
- **Also known as:** Donald Light-Harris
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364640/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33562

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Office*](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) (77)

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## Biography

Donald Lee Harris was an American production designer and art director. He began his career in the 1970s in the art department and later worked as an art director on feature films including *Flesh Gordon* (1974) and *Can't Buy Me Love* (1987). He received early production designer credits on television movies and series such as *Eerie, Indiana* (1991–1992, credited as Donald Light-Harris).

Harris served as production designer on the Fox sitcom *Malcolm in the Middle* (2000–2005) for 60 episodes. He designed the sets for the first season of the NBC series *The Office* (2005). From 2006 to 2015 he worked on more than 200 episodes of the ABC drama *Grey's Anatomy*, and from 2016 to 2021 he designed 103 episodes of the ABC comedy *American Housewife*.

Harris died on 1 November 2022 in Los Angeles, aged 78.

*Sources: imdb.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Office* (2005), Fi1m 77, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Office* (2005), series, Production Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)
- *The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer* (1999), Production Design
- *Invasion* (1997), series, Production Design
- *Sleeping with the Devil* (1997), Production Design
- *Murder Live!* (1997), Production Design
- *Crowned and Dangerous* (1997), Production Design
- *Mary & Tim* (1996), Production Design
- *For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal* (1996), Production Design
- *A Friend's Betrayal* (1996), Production Design
- *The West Side Waltz* (1995), Production Design
- *Blue River* (1995), Production Design
- *Fast Company* (1995), Production Design
- *Next Door* (1994), as Set Decoration
- *The Enemy Within* (1994), Production Design
- *Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice* (1994), Production Design
- *In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness* (1994), Production Design
- *Between Love and Hate* (1993), Production Design
- *Overexposed* (1992), Production Design
- *Breaking the Rules* (1992), Production Designer
- *Eerie, Indiana* (1991), series, Production Design
- *White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd* (1991), Production Design
- *Switched at Birth* (1991), series, Production Design
- *Love, Lies and Murder* (1991), series, Production Design
- *A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder* (1990), Production Design
- *Shattered Dreams* (1990), Production Design
- *Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal* (1989), Production Design
- *Aloha Summer* (1988), as Art Direction
- *Can't Buy Me Love* (1987), Production Design
- *Hostage Flight* (1985), as Art Direction
- *Movers & Shakers* (1985), as Art Direction
- *Two Kinds of Love* (1983), as Art Direction
- *One Shoe Makes it Murder* (1982), as Art Direction
- *The Tempest* (1982), Production Design
- *Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen* (1981), Assistant Art Director
- *Swap Meet* (1979), as Art Direction
- *Flesh Gordon* (1974), as Art Direction

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