---
name: "Harry Lange"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-lange"
fi1m_id: "harry-lange"
imdb_id: "nm0486127"
tmdb_id: 1125548
wikidata_id: "Q2712912"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "7 December 1930"
died: "22 May 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-04T17:51:58.517729+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."
---

# Harry Lange

## Identity

Harry Lange

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-lange
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-lange
- **IMDb ID:** nm0486127
- **TMDB ID:** 1125548
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2712912
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lange, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2712912, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486127/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1125548

Production designer. Born 7 December 1930 in Eisenach, Weimar Republic [now Germany]. Died 22 May 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 7 December 1930, Eisenach, Weimar Republic [now Germany]
- **Died:** 22 May 2008
- **Active:** 1968–1983
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 92 (1), 1980s 80 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 83 to 70 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 4, Science Fiction 3, Action 2, Comedy 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,270m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lange, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2712912, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486127/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1125548

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*2001: A Space Odyssey*](https://film.one/film/2001-a-space-odyssey.md) (92)
- **Peacock:** [*The Dark Crystal*](https://film.one/film/the-dark-crystal.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Harry Lange (1930–2008) was a German production designer and art director. Born in Eisenach, Thuringia, he studied art in West Germany after escaping East Germany and moved to the United States in 1951. He worked as an illustrator for the US military during the Korean War and later at NASA, where he contributed to spacecraft designs with Wernher von Braun. While at NASA he met Arthur C. Clarke, who introduced him to Stanley Kubrick.

Lange served as production designer on *2001: A Space Odyssey* (1968); the design team received an Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction and won a BAFTA for Best Production Design. He settled in England and worked on numerous films, including art direction on *The Empire Strikes Back* (1980), for which he received a second Oscar nomination, set decoration on *Return of the Jedi* (1983), and production design on *The Dark Crystal* (1982), *The Great Muppet Caper* (1981) and *Monty Python's The Meaning of Life* (1983). He also contributed to *Moonraker* (1979) as space art director.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Monty Python's The Meaning of Life* (1983), Fi1m 76, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/monty-pythons-the-meaning-of-life.md)
- *Return of the Jedi* (1983), Fi1m 75, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/film/return-of-the-jedi.md)
- *The Dark Crystal* (1982), Fi1m 78, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-dark-crystal.md)
- *The Empire Strikes Back* (1980), Fi1m 92, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-empire-strikes-back.md)
- *2001: A Space Odyssey* (1968), Fi1m 92, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/2001-a-space-odyssey.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star* (1986), Production Design
- *Return of the Jedi* (1983), as Set Decoration — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/return-of-the-jedi.md)
- *Monty Python's The Meaning of Life* (1983), Production Design — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/monty-pythons-the-meaning-of-life.md)
- *The Dark Crystal* (1982), Production Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-dark-crystal.md)
- *The Great Muppet Caper* (1981), Production Design
- *The Empire Strikes Back* (1980), as Art Direction — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/the-empire-strikes-back.md)
- *Z.P.G.* (1972), as Art Direction
- *2001: A Space Odyssey* (1968), Production Design — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/2001-a-space-odyssey.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1981: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back*
- 1969: Best Production Design (nominated), for *2001: A Space Odyssey*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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