Alfred Hitchcock

Directing · 4.0 popularity

Age

126

Movies

123

Born: August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980
From: Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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Biography

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.

Works

123 films

Psycho

19608.4

Rear Window

19548.3

Vertigo

19588.1

The Birds

19637.5

North by Northwest

19598.0

Rope

19487.9

Rebecca

19407.9

Dial M for Murder

19548.0

The Man Who Knew Too Much

19567.4

To Catch a Thief

19557.3

Strangers on a Train

19517.7

Notorious

19467.7

Shadow of a Doubt

19437.5

Spellbound

19457.4

The 39 Steps

19357.3

I Confess

19537.1

Family Plot

19766.8

Suspicion

19417.1

Frenzy

19727.1

Torn Curtain

19666.6

Marnie

19647.1

The Lady Vanishes

19387.4

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

20257.5

Innocent Blood

19926.2

The Trouble with Harry

19557.0

Topaz

19696.0

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

19416.0

The Wrong Man

19567.1

The Man Who Knew Too Much

19346.5

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

19277.1

Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

2008

Stage Fright

19506.8

Foreign Correspondent

19407.0

The Movie Orgy

19686.7

Saboteur

19426.9

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

20046.0

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

Young and Innocent

19376.6

Under Capricorn

19496.0

Hollywood Invasion

20116.0

Sabotage

19376.7

Sound Test for Blackmail

19296.1

The Ring

19275.9

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Blackmail

19296.5

Murder!

19306.0

Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin

20016.6

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

20217.3

Easy Virtue

19285.3

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

19966.4

Hollywood sul Tevere

2009

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

2008

Terror in the Aisles

19846.2

Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?

2018

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

19966.7

Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

19947.0

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

20067.2

Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly

1990

Shepperton Babylon

20058.5

Hitchcock and Dial M

20046.4

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

20067.3

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

19887.0

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

2009

Memory of the Camps

19854.5

Tales of the Uncanny

20207.0

Show-Business at War

19437.0

Plotting 'Family Plot'

20016.9

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

20028.0

Mondo Hollywood

19676.7

The Universal Story

19968.0

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

20237.0

Night Will Fall

20147.6

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

20236.7

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

20077.8

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

19886.7

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

19614.4

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

19997.8

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

20176.8

A Talk with Hitchcock

19647.3

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

20176.0

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

20086.8

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

20217.5

Her Name Was Grace Kelly

20216.6

The Trouble with 'Marnie'

20007.8

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

20237.2

A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years

20007.2

Hitchcock at the N.F.T.

19697.0

The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'

20006.9

The Man Who Found the Money

1960

What Is Cinema?

20136.5

The Making of 'Psycho'

20057.5

The Story of 'Frenzy'

20016.0

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock

19996.8

When Hitchcock met O'Casey

2019

Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?

20236.0

All-Time Movie Greats

1988

The Fall: Part I

2026

Hitchcock Confidential

20197.8

The Fall: Part II

2026

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'

20006.9

The Children of Alda Nuova

19628.0

The Illustrated Hitchcock

197210.0

All About 'The Birds'

20007.2

Alfred Hitchcock: The Unseen Home Movies

2026

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

20177.3

'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over

20017.3

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

20217.0

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

20017.5

Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

1955

Hitchcocked!

20066.0

Documenting John Grierson

2014

Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock

1972

Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail

20246.2

Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin

2022

Hitchcock on Grierson

2026

Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock

1966

Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

2008

Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief

200210.0

Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation

2002

Hitchcock in the News

2008

Suspense Story: Nat'l Press Club Hears Hitchcock

1963

Hitch x 4

2018

The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock

19736.8