Biography
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.
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. Most of his final films during the early 1950s were lower budget crime thrillers.
Filmography
all 40
Movies 40
Director 2
Hindle Wakes (1952)
The Big Frame (1952)
The Frightened Man (1952)
The Last Page (1952)
The Small Voice (1948)
This Was a Woman (1948)
Daughter of Darkness (1948)
Dancing with Crime (1947)
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
The Upturned Glass (1947)
The Magic Bow (1946)
I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1942)
Front Line Kids (1942)
The Missing Million (1942)
Dusty Ermine (1936)
The Luck of the Irish (1935)
Ten Minute Alibi (1935)
Turn of the Tide (1935)
In Town Tonight (1935)
Night of the Garter (1933)
The Blarney Stone (1933)
Rome Express (1932)
Hindle Wakes (1931)
The Happy Ending (1931)
Down River (1931)
No Lady (1931)
Bracelets (1931)
Bed and Breakfast (1930)
Thread o' Scarlet (1930)
Greek Street (1930)
The Night Porter (1930)
High Treason (1929)
Quinneys (1927)
The Flag Lieutenant (1927)
The Arcadians (1927)
Hindle Wakes (1927)
The Glad Eye (1927)
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Birthday1887-08-02
Deathday1975-08-06 (88 years old)
Birth PlaceLe Havre, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
CitizenshipsFrance
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