Lem Dobbs (born Anton Lemuel Kitaj; 24 December 1958) is a British-American screenwriter, best known for the films Dark City (1998) and The Limey (1999).
The pen name "Dobbs" was taken from the character played by Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
In 1979, Dobbs wrote Edward Ford, an original screenplay that remains unproduced.
He described his on-location experience as a matter of "helping to solve logistical problems on a daily basis, making constant adjustments" and later claimed it was his only attempt at "classic script doctoring.
Dobbs has spoken on DVD and blu-ray commentary tracks for his films Dark City and The Limey, and (as a film historian) for the unrelated In the French Style (1963), Von Ryan's Express (1965), The Sand Pebbles (1966), The Chase (1966), 10 Rillington Place (1971) and Double Indemnity (1945), the last due to his personal friendship with the director Billy Wilder.