Biography
Michael Lamont (1948–2007) was a British art director and production designer. He worked in the art department on numerous major films, beginning as a draughtsman on The Shining (1980) and serving as assistant art director on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Lamont received production designer credit, shared with his brother Peter Lamont, on the comedy Top Secret! (1984). He later worked as art director on films including Aliens (1986), Licence to Kill (1989), The Fifth Element (1997), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Casino Royale (2006). He won an Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Award for contemporary film on the latter.
He was married to Yvonne Barbour and was the father of Simon Lamont.
