
Alfred Hitchcock
Born August 13, 1899 · Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in cinema history. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", Hitchcock became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, cameo appearances in most of his films, and hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65). His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins. However, despite five nominations, he never won the Best Director award. Hitchcock initially trained as a technical clerk and copywriter before entering the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer. The British–German silent film The Pleasure Garden (1925) was his directorial debut. His first successful film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, and Blackmail (1929) was the first British "talkie". His thrillers The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938) are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century. By 1939, he had international recognition and producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood. A string of successful films followed, including Rebecca(1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Notorious (1946). Rebecca won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Hitchcock nominated as Best Director. He also received Oscar nominations for Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960). Hitchcock's other notable films include Rope (1948), Strangers on a Train (1951), Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964) and Frenzy (1972), all of which were also financially successful and are highly regarded by film historians. Hitchcock made several films with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including four with Cary Grant, four with James Stewart, three with Ingrid Bergman and three consecutively with Grace Kelly. Hitchcock became an American citizen in 1955. In 2012, Hitchcock's psychological thriller Vertigo, starring Stewart, displaced Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its worldwide poll of hundreds of film critics. As of 2021, nine of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his favourite, Shadow of a Doubt (1943). He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979, and was knighted in December of that year, four months before his death on 29 April 1980.
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Rebecca

The Lady Vanishes

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

Notorious

I Confess

Torn Curtain

The Trouble with Harry

Stage Fright

The Wrong Man

The 39 Steps

Suspicion

Marnie

Spellbound

Frenzy

Family Plot

Topaz

Saboteur

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Under Capricorn

Foreign Correspondent

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

The Movie Orgy

Blackmail

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Young and Innocent

Terror in the Aisles

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

Sabotage

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Tales of the Uncanny

Murder!

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

Morceaux de Cannes

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

Show-Business at War

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

Night Will Fall

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'

Memory of the Camps

Heart of the Festival

The Making of 'Psycho'

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic

Hitchcock and Dial M

All About 'The Birds'

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over

The Universal Story

Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly

The Man Who Found the Money

What Is Cinema?

Her Name Was Grace Kelly

Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin

The Ring

The Trouble with 'Marnie'

The Children of Alda Nuova

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

The Story of 'Frenzy'

Shepperton Babylon

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Plotting 'Family Plot'

Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail

A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years

Obsessed with Vertigo

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock

Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

Mondo Hollywood

A Talk with Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock: The Unseen Home Movies

When Hitchcock met O'Casey

Hitchcock Confidential

Hitchcock at the N.F.T.

Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation

Easy Virtue

Hitchcocked!

Hollywood sul Tevere

Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin

The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

Sound Test for Blackmail

Suspense Story: Nat'l Press Club Hears Hitchcock

Tippi Hedren's Screen Test for The Birds

Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?

Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?

Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock in the News

Hitch x 4

The Illustrated Hitchcock

Hitchcock on Grierson




























