Alfred Hitchcock

Directing · 4.1 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

To Catch a Thief

19557.3

Dial M for Murder

19548.0

Strangers on a Train

19517.7

Shadow of a Doubt

19437.5

The Man Who Knew Too Much

19567.4

I Confess

19537.1

Notorious

19467.7

Spellbound

19457.4

The 39 Steps

19357.3

Marnie

19647.1

Family Plot

19766.8

Frenzy

19727.1

Torn Curtain

19666.6

Suspicion

19417.1

Innocent Blood

19926.2

The Wrong Man

19567.1

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

20257.5

The Lady Vanishes

19387.4

Topaz

19696.0

The Trouble with Harry

19557.0

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

19416.0

The Man Who Knew Too Much

19346.5

The Movie Orgy

19686.7

Stage Fright

19506.8

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

19277.1

Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

2008

Saboteur

19426.9

Hollywood Invasion

20116.0

Foreign Correspondent

19407.0

Under Capricorn

19496.0

Sound Test for Blackmail

19296.1

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

20046.0

Young and Innocent

19376.6

The Ring

19275.9

Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin

20016.6

Murder!

19306.0

Blackmail

19296.5

Sabotage

19376.7

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

19966.4

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

19966.7

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

20028.0

Plotting 'Family Plot'

20016.9

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

20067.3

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

20217.3

Hitchcock and Dial M

20046.4

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

19887.0

Hollywood sul Tevere

2009

Night Will Fall

20147.6

Easy Virtue

19285.3

The Universal Story

19968.0

Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?

2018

Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly

1990

Terror in the Aisles

19846.2

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

20067.2

Shepperton Babylon

20058.5

Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

19947.0

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

2008

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

20236.7

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

20237.0

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

19614.4

Mondo Hollywood

19676.7

Tales of the Uncanny

20207.0

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

20176.0

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

19886.7

Memory of the Camps

19854.5

Show-Business at War

19437.0

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

20176.8

Her Name Was Grace Kelly

20216.6

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'

20006.9

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

20077.8

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock

19996.8

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

2009

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

20237.2

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

20217.5

The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'

20006.9

'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over

20017.3

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

19997.8

All-Time Movie Greats

1988

A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years

20007.2

The Trouble with 'Marnie'

20007.8

The Story of 'Frenzy'

20016.0

Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?

20236.0

What Is Cinema?

20136.5

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

20086.8

A Talk with Hitchcock

19647.3

Hitchcock Confidential

20197.8

Hitchcock at the N.F.T.

19697.0

Alfred Hitchcock: The Unseen Home Movies

2026

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

20177.3

The Fall: Part I

2026

The Making of 'Psycho'

20057.5

Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock

1972

The Man Who Found the Money

1960

The Children of Alda Nuova

19628.0

All About 'The Birds'

20007.2

Documenting John Grierson

2014

Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

1955

Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

2008

When Hitchcock met O'Casey

2019

The Fall: Part II

2026

Hitchcocked!

20066.0

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

20017.5

Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail

20246.2

Hitchcock in the News

2008

Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief

200210.0

Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin

2022

The Illustrated Hitchcock

197210.0

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

20217.0

Suspense Story: Nat'l Press Club Hears Hitchcock

1963

Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation

2002

Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock

1966

The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock

19736.8

Hitchcock on Grierson

2026

Hitch x 4

2018