---
name: "Doug Kraner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/doug-kraner"
fi1m_id: "doug-kraner"
imdb_id: "nm0469759"
tmdb_id: 20214
roles: ["Production designer"]
died: "4 April 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T21:41:32.639526+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."
---

# Doug Kraner

## Identity

Doug Kraner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/doug-kraner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** doug-kraner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0469759
- **TMDB ID:** 20214
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0469759/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20214

Production designer. Died 4 April 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Died:** 4 April 2016
- **Active:** 1986–1991
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 67 (2), 1990s 54 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Romance 2, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $333m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0469759/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20214

## Biography

Doug Kraner was an American production designer and art director. He began his career as a set decorator on *My Dinner with Andre* (1981) and held an MFA in Scene Design from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

His film credits include production design on *Sleeping with the Enemy* (1991), for which he designed the beach house set, *Uncle Buck* (1989), *Baby's Day Out* (1994), *I Still Know What You Did Last Summer* (1998), *Enough* (2002) and *Godsend* (2004). He worked as art director on *Working Girl* (1988) and collaborated frequently with director John Hughes.

On television, Kraner served as production designer on series including *Gotham* (2014), for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination, *The Tomorrow People* and *Devious Maids*. He was nominated for two Primetime Emmys in total and was honoured in the Oscars in Memoriam in 2017. He died on 4 April 2016.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, variety.com, televisionacademy.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Sleeping with the Enemy* (1991), Fi1m 54, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/sleeping-with-the-enemy.md)
- *Working Girl* (1988), Fi1m 80, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/working-girl.md)
- *The Money Pit* (1986), Fi1m 54, Assistant Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-money-pit.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Gotham* (2014), series, In Memory Of
- *Area 57* (2007), Production Design
- *Godsend* (2004), Production Design
- *Enough* (2002), Production Design
- *Just Visiting* (2001), Production Design
- *I Still Know What You Did Last Summer* (1998), Production Design
- *Extreme Measures* (1996), Production Design
- *Mr. Wrong* (1996), Production Design
- *Miracle on 34th Street* (1994), Production Design
- *Baby's Day Out* (1994), Production Design
- *Mr. Wonderful* (1993), Production Design
- *Raising Cain* (1992), Production Design
- *Curly Sue* (1991), Production Design
- *Sleeping with the Enemy* (1991), Production Design — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/sleeping-with-the-enemy.md)
- *State of Grace* (1990), Production Design
- *No Place Like Home* (1989), Production Design
- *Lean On Me* (1989), Production Design
- *Working Girl* (1988), as Art Direction — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/working-girl.md)
- *Dominick and Eugene* (1988), Production Design
- *Home at Last* (1988), Production Design
- *No Mercy* (1986), as Art Direction
- *The Money Pit* (1986), Assistant Art Director — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-money-pit.md)
- *My Dinner with Andre* (1981), as Set Decoration

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