Dan Lanigan is an American film and television producer, writer, director, actor and film historian. He owns a production company, Cinema Relics, and is most notably the host of Disney's Prop Culture.
Lanigan began his television career as a creator of Race to the Scene, a 2013 reality series hosted by Dolph Lundgren that features teams of contestants who race to historic movie locations by performing stunts from blockbuster movies like Pulp Fiction and Terminator.ÃÂ He also served as Executive Producer on the TV series West Texas Investors Club and Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return.
In 2020, Lanigan hosted the Disney+ series Prop Culture. In the docuseries, Dan explores and showcases costumes, set designs, music, and props from various Disney films, and meets with stars like Rick Moranis, Christopher Lloyd, and the cast of .
Lanigan co-directed and produced the 2020 mockumentary feature film . He also executive-produced the 2023 horror film Slotherhouse, which aired on Hulu and released in Regal Cinemas in the United States.
Lanigan has been collecting movie props and costumes for over 25 years. He first became interested in film props when he saw screen-used movie artifacts on display at Disney's MGM Studios. Dan has collected over 6,000 artifacts in his Cinema Relics archive and is dedicated to preserving film history.
In 2025, Lanigan began a YouTube series called Cinema Relics: Investigations where he and his team share pieces from the collection and investigate the history of these iconic props.