Biography
Joseph Bato (also credited as Josef Bato) was a Hungarian art director and costume designer who worked in British cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Born in Budapest in 1888, he fled Nazi Germany in 1936 due to his Jewish heritage and settled in London. There he contributed to productions at London Films and other studios, including costume design on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and set design work on The Third Man (1949).
His other credits include art direction on Hue and Cry (1947), The Sound Barrier (1952), An Inspector Calls (1954) and The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954). He died in London in 1966.
