Andrew Mazzei
British art director (1887–1975) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Andrew Mazzei (1887–1975) was a French-born British art director who designed the sets for more than sixty films during his career. Mazzei began his career in the late 1920s during the silent era including on the futuristic High Treason. By the 1930s he was working for Gainsborough Pictures, designing backdrops for the critically acclaimed train-set thriller Rome Express in 1932.
Andrew Mazzei | |
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Born | 2 August 1887 |
Died | 6 August 1975 |
Other names | André Jean Louis Mazzei |
Occupation | Art director |
Years active | 1926 - 1952 (film) |
His 1940s work includes Gainsborough Melodramas such as Madonna of the Seven Moons and The Magic Bow as well as the Film Noirs The Upturned Glass and They Made Me a Fugitive. In 1947 he was employed on the Technicolor film The Man Within.[1] Most of his final films during the early 1950s were lower budget crime thrillers.