I personally had the pleasure of working with Donald on my very first job in the film industry, “Grey’s Anatomy”. He rarely let anything ruffle his feathers & I not only admired his design, I was always struck by his calm & kind demeanor. He would simply say, “ok fine” when last minute changes would have had anyone want to rip their hair out. It’s with a very heavy heart that I share the news of an immense loss in the creative world. Production Designer, Husband, Father, Friend & BRILLIANT mind, Donald Lee Harris passed away yesterday surrounded by his loving family after his heroic battle with cancer came to a close.
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Here is the full text of Pecora-Sutphen’s tribute to Harris: Harris is survived by his wife, Laurie Harris, and children Travis and Vanessa. Rick and I coaxed him into staying for its entire 5 year run. “After the pilot of American Housewife, Donald said he was going to retire. Kind, smart and funny,” said Kenny Schwartz, who served as executive producer/co-showrunner on the ABC comedy alongside Rick Wiener. “Donald was an amazing production designer.
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He then joined American Housewife as production designer for its 2016 pilot and stayed through that Katy Mixon-led series through its finale. In 2016, Harris served as production designer on the short-lived 2016 Fox comedy Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life. He left that gig to work as PD on the six-episode first season of NBC comedy The Office.
Everyone who’s worked with him will miss him terribly.” “Two decades ago, he showed everyone in television how great single-camera comedies could look.
“Donald Lee Harris was one of the most creative, patient and diligent artists I’ve ever known,” Malcolm in the Middle creator Linwood Boomer said in a statement to Deadline. He would work on the series throughout its seven-season run.
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Harris continued to work mostly on TV movies through the ’90s before landing the production designer job on Fox’s Malcolm in the Middle, which helped usher in the wave of single-camera comedies on broadcast TV, in 2000. He served in that role for other 1980s pics such as Movers & Shakers and Aloha Summer and got his first production designer credits on a pair of mid-’80s TV movies and the features Can’t Buy Me Love and World Gone Wild.Īs PD, he worked mostly on telefilm and miniseries - including Babe Ruth, Billy the Kid and Love, Lies & Murder - before landing his first series gig with the 1991-92 NBC sci-fi drama Eerie, Indiana. Harris began his career in the 1970s, first in the art department for an episode of hit variety series Donny & Marie and then as an art director on films including Flesh Gordon - in which he got his only acting credit - and Swap Meet.
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