---
name: "Lester Cohen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lester-cohen"
fi1m_id: "lester-cohen"
imdb_id: "nm0169555"
tmdb_id: 13228
wikidata_id: "Q25251115"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-23T21:14:53.217827+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."
---

# Lester Cohen

## Identity

Lester Cohen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lester-cohen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lester-cohen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0169555
- **TMDB ID:** 13228
- **Wikidata ID:** Q25251115
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25251115, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169555/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13228

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1988–present
- **Also known as:**  Lester W. Cohen
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 90 (1), 2010s 70 (1), 2020s 62 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 69 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Crime 2, Drama 2, Mystery 2, Documentary 1, Horror 1, War & Politics 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $139m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25251115, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169555/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13228

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Looming Tower*](https://film.one/tv/the-looming-tower.md) (70)
- **Apple TV:** [*Smile 2*](https://film.one/film/smile-2.md) (64)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Undoing*](https://film.one/tv/the-undoing.md) (61)

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

## Biography

Lester Cohen is a production designer. He began his career in the mid-1980s designing independent features in New York, with early credits including *True Love* and *Juice* (1992). His feature work includes *Cop Land* (1997), *Smile* (2022) and *Smile 2* (2024).

Cohen has also designed for television, including *The Night Of* (2016), *The Undoing* (2020) and *The Changeling* (2023). He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program for *The Undoing*.

*Sources: imdb.com, tisch.nyu.edu, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Smile 2* (2024), Fi1m 64, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/smile-2.md)
- *The Undoing* (2020), Fi1m 61, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-undoing.md)
- *The Looming Tower* (2018), Fi1m 70, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-looming-tower.md)
- *The Thin Blue Line* (1988), Fi1m 90, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-thin-blue-line.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *Smile 2* (2024), Production Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/smile-2.md)
- *Smile* (2022), Production Design
- *Things Heard & Seen* (2021), Production Design
- *The Undoing* (2020), series, Production Design — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-undoing.md)
- *The Jesus Rolls* (2019), Production Design
- *Tales of the City* (2019), series, Production Design
- *The Looming Tower* (2018), series, Production Design — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-looming-tower.md)
- *Sneaky Pete* (2015), series, Production Design
- *Fading Gigolo* (2013), Production Design
- *White Collar* (2009), series, Production Design
- *The Flock* (2007), Production Design
- *Ice Princess* (2005), Production Design
- *The Assassination of Richard Nixon* (2004), Production Design
- *House of D* (2004), Production Design
- *Knockaround Guys* (2001), Production Design
- *Forces of Nature* (1999), as Port Authority Spokesman · Production Design
- *Cop Land* (1997), Production Design
- *Harriet the Spy* (1996), Production Design
- *Tales of Erotica* (1996), Production Design
- *Georgia* (1995), Production Design
- *New Jersey Drive* (1995), Production Design
- *The Inkwell* (1994), Production Design
- *The Night We Never Met* (1993), Production Design
- *Jersey Girl* (1992), Production Design
- *Juice* (1992), Production Design
- *The Ambulance* (1990), Production Design
- *Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella* (1990), Production Design
- *True Love* (1989), Production Design
- *The Laser Man* (1988), Production Design
- *The Thin Blue Line* (1988), as Art Direction — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/the-thin-blue-line.md)
- *Anna* (1987), Production Design
- *Salvation!* (1987), Production Design
- *Alabaster* (1983), as Art Direction

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