
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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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Spellbound

I Confess

Marnie

Frenzy

Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

Suspicion

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

Shadow of a Doubt

Innocent Blood

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

Topaz

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

The 39 Steps

Saboteur

The Trouble with Harry

Foreign Correspondent

Family Plot

Hollywood Invasion

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Lady Vanishes

Young and Innocent

Torn Curtain

The Movie Orgy

The Wrong Man

Under Capricorn

Sabotage

Stage Fright

Murder!

Heart of the Festival

Plotting 'Family Plot'

Blackmail

Sound Test for Blackmail

Hollywood sul Tevere

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

Morceaux de Cannes

Terror in the Aisles

Night Will Fall

The Universal Story

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin

Tales of the Uncanny

Her Name Was Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

Shepperton Babylon

Memory of the Camps

The Ring

Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly

Show-Business at War

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Hitchcock and Dial M

What Is Cinema?

All About 'The Birds'

The Man Who Found the Money

The Trouble with 'Marnie'

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

The Illustrated Hitchcock

'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over

A Talk with Hitchcock

Easy Virtue

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

Mondo Hollywood

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

When Hitchcock met O'Casey

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

The Making of 'Psycho'

The Story of 'Frenzy'

Suspense Story: Nat'l Press Club Hears Hitchcock

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

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

Alfred Hitchcock: The Unseen Home Movies

A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years

The Children of Alda Nuova

Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock

Hitchcock Confidential

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail

Hitchcock at the N.F.T.

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

Hitchcocked!

Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin

The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'

Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation

The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock

Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

Hitchcock on Grierson

Hitchcock in the News

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