Eugene Lee(1939-2023)

Production Designer
Art Department
Costume Designer

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Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

Eugene Lee was born on 9 March 1939 in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA. He was a production designer and costume designer, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), Man on the Moon (1999) and Schmigadoon! (2021). He was married to Brooke E. Lutz and Franne Lee. He died on 6 February 2023 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

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Won 6 Primetime Emmys
- 13 wins & 26 nominations total

Known for

Saturday Night Live

8.0

TV Series

Production Designer

Man on the Moon

7.4

Additional Crew(Saturday Night Live)

1999

Schmigadoon!

7.4

TV Series

Producer

On Golden Pond

6.6

TV Movie

Production Designer

2001

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Production Designer

Saturday Night Live
8.0
TV Series
- Production Designer
- 1975–2023
A Saturday Night Live Mother's Day
6.1
TV Special
- Production Designer
- 2020
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
7.1
TV Series
- Production Designer
- 2014–2018
SNL Presents: Halloween
7.6
TV Movie
- Production Designer
- 2017
Maya & Marty
6.6
TV Series
- Production Designer
- 2016
Goodnight, Sweet Prince
7.6
TV Special
- Production Designer
- 2016
Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special
8.1
TV Special
- Production Designer
- 2015
SNL Sports Spectacular
5.7
TV Movie
- Production Designer
- 2014
Saturday Night Live: Best of This Season
4.6
TV Special
- Production Designer
- 2014
A Master Builder
6.0
- Production Designer
- 2013
Saturday Night Live: Halloween
6.8
TV Special
- Production Designer
- 2013
Call It Fiction
Short
- Production Designer
- 2006
Night of Too Many Stars
5.2
TV Special
- Production Designer
- 2003
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Halftime Special
5.6
TV Special
- Production Designer
- 2003
On Golden Pond
6.6
TV Movie
- Production Designer
- 2001

Art Department

Costume Designer

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Vanya on 42nd Street: The Criterion Collection Blu-Ray

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Official sites
- Discogs
- Library Archives
Alternative names
- Eugene 'Bud' Lee
Born
- March 9, 1939
- Beloit, Wisconsin, USA
Died
- February 6, 2023
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA(short illness)
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Other works
(6/05) Stage: Designed set for "Wicked" musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, CA.

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Trivia
Has won Broadway's Tony Award as Best Scenic Designer three times: in 1974, with collaborator/wife Franne Lee, for "Candide;" in 1979 for "Sweeney Todd;" and in 2004 for "Wicked." He was also nominated in the same category in 1998 for "Ragtime."