Biography
Mayo, also credited as Antoine Mayo or Antoine Malliarakis, was a Greek-French costume designer, production designer and painter. Born in Port Said, Egypt, to a Greek engineer father and French mother, he moved to France as a child and studied architecture in Paris before turning to painting and stage design in avant-garde circles.
Recommended by writer Jacques Prévert, he entered film in 1944 as costume designer on Children of Paradise (1945). He went on to design costumes or production for numerous French classics, including Gates of the Night (1946), Casque d'Or (1952), Thérèse Raquin (1953), Land of the Pharaohs (1955) and The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960). He served as production designer on Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959). His film career spanned roughly two decades before he concentrated on painting.
