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Known For:
Directing
Birthday:
August 13, 1899
Place of Birth:
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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Alfred Hitchcock
Biography
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock 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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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film? | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Lynch/Oz | (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2022 | Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Normandie ne partira pas ce soir | |
| 2021 | Her Name Was Grace Kelly | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | I Am Alfred Hitchcock | Self |
| 2020 | Tales of the Uncanny | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Hitchcock Confidential | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | When Hitchcock Met O'Casey | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | When Hitchcock met O'Casey | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Parasite | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock? | Himself |
| 2018 | Hitch x 4 | Himself |
| 2017 | 78/52 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | German Concentration Camps Factual Survey | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Hitchcock/Truffaut | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2014 | Documenting John Grierson | |
| 2014 | Night Will Fall | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | What Is Cinema? | Self |
| 2010 | The Psycho Legacy | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Hitchcock in the News | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators | Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | The Pervert's Guide to Cinema | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) |
| 2005 | The Making of 'Psycho' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Shepperton Babylon | Himself (Archive) |
| 2004 | Hitchcock and Dial M | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years | Self (audio archival footage) |
| 2002 | Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film | Self (uncredited archive footage: 1960 Psycho trailer) |
| 2001 | Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Plotting 'Family Plot' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | 'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | The Story of 'Frenzy' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2000 | The Trouble with 'Marnie' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2000 | Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2000 | The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2000 | All About 'The Birds' | Self (archive footage) |
| 1999 | Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock | Self (archive footage) |
| 1999 | Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood | Self (archive footage) |
| 1999 | Hitchcock: The Early Years | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | The Universal Story | Self (archive footage) |
| 1994 | Hitchcock: Alfred the Great | Himself (Archival Footage) |
| 1988 | Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | Gregory Peck: His Own Man | Self (archive footage) |
| 1985 | Memory of the Camps | Self (uncredited archive footage) |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1976 | Family Plot | Silhouette at Office of Vital Statistics (uncredited) |
| 1973 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock | Himself |
| 1972 | The Illustrated Hitchcock | Self |
| 1972 | Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock | Self |
| 1972 | Frenzy | Spectator at Opening Rally (uncredited) |
| 1969 | Hitchcock at the N.F.T. | Self |
| 1969 | Topaz | Man in Wheelchair (uncredited) |
| 1968 | The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) |
| 1967 | Mondo Hollywood | |
| 1966 | Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock | Himself |
| 1966 | Torn Curtain | Man in Hotel Lobby with Baby (uncredited) |
| 1964 | Marnie | Man Leaving Hotel Room (uncredited) |
| 1964 | A Talk with Hitchcock | Self |
| 1963 | The Birds | Pet Store Customer (uncredited) |
| 1962 | The Children of Alda Nuova | self - host |
| 1961 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Self (uncredited) |
| 1960 | Psycho | Man Outside Office (uncredited) |
| 1960 | The Man Who Found the Money | self (host) |
| 1959 | North by Northwest | Man Who Misses Bus (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Human Interest Story | host (self) |
| 1958 | Vertigo | Man Walking Past Elster's Office (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Lamb to the Slaughter | Self - Host |
| 1956 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Man in Marrakesh Marketplace (uncredited) |
| 1956 | The Wrong Man | Prologue Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1955 | To Catch a Thief | Man Sitting Next to John Robie on Bus (uncredited) |
| 1955 | The Trouble with Harry | Passer-by (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid | Self - Host |
| 1954 | Rear Window | Clock-Winder in Songwriter's Apartment (uncredited) |
| 1954 | Dial M for Murder | Banquet Member (uncredited) |
| 1953 | I Confess | Man Crossing the Top of Long Staircase (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Strangers on a Train | Man Boarding Train Carrying a Double Bass (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Stage Fright | Man Staring at Eve on Street (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Under Capricorn | Man at Governor's Reception (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Rope | Man Walking in Street After Opening Credits (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Notorious | Man Drinking Champagne at Party (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Spellbound | Man Leaving Elevator (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Shadow of a Doubt | Man on Train Playing Cards (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Show-Business at War | Self |
| 1942 | Saboteur | Man in Front of New York Drugstore (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Suspicion | Man Mailing Letter (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Man Passing David Smith on Street (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Rebecca | Man Outside Phone Booth (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Foreign Correspondent | Man with Newspaper on Street (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Lady Vanishes | Man in London Railway Station (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Sabotage | Man Walking Past the Cinema as the Light Is Renewed |
| 1937 | Young and Innocent | Photographer Outside Courthouse (uncredited) |
| 1935 | The 39 Steps | Man Walking Past Bus (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Man in Raincoat Passing Bus (uncredited) |
| 1930 | Murder! | Man on Street (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Blackmail | Man on Subway (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Sound Test for Blackmail | Self (uncredited) |
| 1928 | Easy Virtue | Man with Stick Near Tennis Court (uncredited) |
| 1927 | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | Man in Newspaper Office (uncredited) |
| 1927 | The Ring | Man-Dipping Attraction Worker (uncredited) |
| Hitchcock on Grierson | Self |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Talking Pictures | Self (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Star Life | Self (archive footage) |
| 1989 | Tales from the Crypt | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1985 | The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents | |
| 1985 | The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Self - Host (archive footage) |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self (archive footage) |
| 1973 | The Men Who Made the Movies | Self |
| 1972 | Midi trente | Self (archive footage) |
| 1971 | V.I.P. Schaukel | Self |
| 1971 | Samedi soir | Self |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Self - Host |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Self - Host |
| 1954 | Reflets de Cannes | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Self |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Mystery Guest |