Eugène Lourié (Russian: Евгений Лурье; 8 April 1903 – 26 May 1991) was a Russian-born French film director, art director, production designer, set designer and screenwriter who was known for his collaborations with Jean Renoir and for his 1950s science fiction movies.
Allmovie contributor Sandra Brennan has written that he was "among the best art directors in French cinema.
[4] In the 1930s, he worked as a production designer for such directors as Jean Renoir, Max Ophüls, and René Clair.
"[5] Eight years later, he received an Academy Award nomination for his visual effects on Krakatoa, East of Java.
[4] Lourié makes a silent cameo appearance in Krakatoa, East of Java, portraying a lighthouse keeper on the coast of Java in 1883 who observes Krakatoa's final, cataclysmic explosion and enters the lighthouse to send news of it by telegraph.