Alfred Hitchcock
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-08-13
Place of Birth
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Also Known For
Rebecca
Mar 23, 1940
Psycho
Jun 22, 1960
Rear Window
Aug 01, 1954
The Movie Orgy
Jan 01, 1968
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
Aug 05, 1999
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Apr 06, 1996
Strangers on a Train
Jun 27, 1951
Murder!
Jul 31, 1930
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Mar 05, 2023
Tales of the Uncanny
Oct 31, 2020
Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
Sep 01, 2021
Dial M for Murder
May 29, 1954
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Oct 07, 2008
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
Oct 07, 2008
Marnie
Jul 17, 1964
Documenting John Grierson
Feb 28, 2014
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Jun 29, 2009
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
May 19, 1996
The Making of 'Psycho'
Oct 26, 2005
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Jul 21, 2023
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
Jan 01, 1973
Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?
Sep 08, 2023
Sabotage
Jan 08, 1937
Stage Fright
Feb 23, 1950
The Illustrated Hitchcock
Jul 15, 1972
The Children of Alda Nuova
Jun 05, 1962
The Birds
Mar 28, 1963
Blackmail
Jul 11, 1929
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Dec 31, 1961
Hitchcock and Dial M
Oct 31, 2004
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
Mar 06, 2001
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Oct 06, 2006
Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock
Jul 15, 1972
Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation
Nov 05, 2002
Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief
Nov 05, 2002
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
Nov 24, 2004
Sound Test for Blackmail
Jan 01, 1929
To Catch a Thief
Aug 03, 1955
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
May 30, 2000
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Jun 05, 1988
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Mar 08, 1988
Memory of the Camps
May 07, 1985
Under Capricorn
Sep 08, 1949
Hitch x 4
Jan 01, 2018
Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?
Jan 01, 2018
North by Northwest
Aug 06, 1959
Shadow of a Doubt
Jan 15, 1943
The 39 Steps
Jun 06, 1935
A Talk with Hitchcock
Feb 21, 1964
Notorious
Aug 21, 1946
The Man Who Knew Too Much
May 16, 1956
I Confess
Feb 13, 1953
Foreign Correspondent
Aug 16, 1940
Mondo Hollywood
Jun 30, 1967
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Feb 14, 1927
Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
Sep 17, 2022
Easy Virtue
Apr 01, 1928
Family Plot
Apr 09, 1976
The Trouble with Harry
Oct 03, 1955
Hitchcock at the N.F.T.
Dec 30, 1969
Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
Sep 10, 2000
Plotting 'Family Plot'
Mar 06, 2001
The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
Apr 01, 2000
All About 'The Birds'
May 28, 2000
'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over
Mar 06, 2001
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
Mar 06, 2001
The Story of 'Frenzy'
Mar 06, 2001
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Jan 23, 1999
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Oct 07, 2008
The Wrong Man
Dec 22, 1956
The Ring
Sep 28, 1927
The Lady Vanishes
Oct 07, 1938
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
Jan 06, 2017
Show-Business at War
May 21, 1943
The Universal Story
Apr 21, 1996
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Feb 01, 2017
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Dec 01, 1934
Young and Innocent
Nov 01, 1937
Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock
May 20, 1966
Suspicion
Nov 14, 1941
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Aug 06, 2017
Spellbound
Nov 08, 1945
A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years
Jan 15, 2001
Hitchcock Confidential
Jun 24, 2019
Frenzy
May 25, 1972
What Is Cinema?
Sep 06, 2013
Topaz
Dec 17, 1969
Vertigo
May 28, 1958
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Jan 31, 1941
Torn Curtain
Jul 15, 1966
Rope
Mar 11, 1948
Saboteur
Apr 24, 1942
Her Name Was Grace Kelly
Mar 20, 2021
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Sep 16, 2006
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
May 02, 2021
Terror in the Aisles
Oct 26, 1984
When Hitchcock met O'Casey
Sep 27, 2019
Hitchcock on Grierson
Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail
Oct 18, 2024
Hitchcock in the News
Jan 01, 2008
The Man Who Found the Money
Dec 27, 1960
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
Jul 01, 1994
Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
Jan 01, 1955
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Apr 02, 2002
Shepperton Babylon
Aug 11, 2005
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Oct 07, 2008
Innocent Blood
Sep 25, 1992
Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly
Jun 05, 1990
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sep 29, 1985
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Oct 02, 1955
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
The Men Who Made the Movies
Nov 04, 1973
Talking Pictures
Jan 05, 2013
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sep 29, 1985
Tales from the Crypt
Jun 10, 1989
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Sep 20, 1962
V.I.P. Schaukel
May 09, 1971
Spécial cinéma
Sep 25, 1974
Lux Video Theatre
Oct 02, 1950
Midi trente
Mar 06, 1972
The Dick Cavett Show
Jun 06, 1968
What's My Line?
Feb 02, 1950
Samedi soir
Jan 09, 1971
Cinépanorama
Feb 04, 1956
Reflets de Cannes
Mar 25, 1954
