Summary: Hitchcock was born the second son and youngest of three children of William Hitchcock 1862-1914, a greengrocer and poulterer, and Emma Jane Hitchcock 1863-1942.
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Description: Director, Producer, UK
Known For: Known for many films such as – “Psycho” with Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins
Location: United Kingdom
Date Born: 13th August 1899
Location Born: Leytonstone, United Kingdom
Date Died: 2nd April 1980
Location Died: Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Cause Of Death: Kidney Failure
Memorial: Hitchcock died in Los Angeles, California home at the age of 80. Hitchcock’s body was cremated and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific.
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Web Site: http://www.hitchcock.nl/
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Alfred Hitchcock KBE
A highly influential British,American filmmaker and producer, who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres.
After a very substantial career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood and, in 1956, became an American citizen, also retaining his British citizenship.
Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films, in a career spanning six decades, from the silent era, through the invention of sound films, and far into the color era.
Hitchcock became famous for his expert and largely unrivalled control of pace and suspense, and his films draw heavily on both fear and fantasy.
Hitchcock began his directing career in the United Kingdom in 1922.
Rebecca was the only one of Hitchcock’s films to win the Academy Award for Best Picture though the award did not go to Hitchcock, although four other films were also nominated.
In 1967 he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement.
Films include
‘Notorious’ – 1946 – ‘To Catch A Thief’ – 1955 – ‘The Birds’ – 1963
‘Psycho’ – 1960.
Many of Hitchcock’s films contain cameo appearances by Hitchcock himself: the director would be seen for a brief moment boarding a bus, crossing in front of a building, standing in an apartment across the courtyard, or appearing in a photograph.
He is also remebered for his television show “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” from 1955 to 1965 which he hosted.
Hitchcock died from renal failure in his Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California home at the age of 80.
Films include.
1925 The Pleasure Garden
1927 The Mountain Eagle
1927 The Lodger
1927 Downhill
1927 Easy Virtue
1927 The Ring
1928 Champagne
1928 The Farmer’s Wife
1929 The Manxman
1929 Blackmail
1930 Juno and the Paycock
1930 Murder!
1931 The Skin Game
1932 Number Seventeen
1932 Rich and Strange
1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 Waltzes From Vienna
1935 The 39 Steps
1936 Sabotage
1936 Secret Agent
1937 Young and Innocent
1938 The Lady Vanishes
1939 Jamaica Inn
1940 Foreign Correspondent
1940 Rebecca
1941 Mr. and Mrs. Smith
1941 Suspicion
1942 Saboteur
1943 Shadow of a Doubt
1944 Lifeboat
1945 Spellbound
1946 Notorious
1948 The Paradine Case
1948 Rope
1949 Under Capricorn
1950 Stage Fright
1951 Strangers on a Train
1953 I Confess
1954 Dial “M” for Murder
1954 Rear Window
1955 To Catch a Thief
1955 The Trouble with Harry
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much – remake
1956 The Wrong Man
1958 Vertigo
1959 North by Northwest
1960 Psycho
The Grand Old Man
1963 The Birds
1964 Marnie
1966 Torn Curtain
1969 Topaz
1972 Frenzy
1976 Family Plot
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