Alfred Hitchcock
1899-08-13 ( 125 years old ) in Leytonstone, London, England, UK

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alfred Hitchcock, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail 2024-10-18
Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film? 2023-09-08
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock 2023-07-21
Lynch/Oz 2023-05-15
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel 2023-03-05
Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin 2022-09-17
Normandie ne partira pas ce soir 2021-09-01
I Am Alfred Hitchcock 2021-05-02
Her Name Was Grace Kelly 2021-03-20
Tales of the Uncanny 2020-10-31
When Hitchcock Met O'Casey 2019-09-27
When Hitchcock met O'Casey 2019-09-27
Hitchcock Confidential 2019-06-24
Parasite 2019-05-30
Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock? 2018-01-01
Hitch x 4 2018-01-01
78/52 2017-10-13
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions 2017-08-06
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story 2017-02-01
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey 2017-01-06
Hitchcock/Truffaut 2015-09-05
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words 2015-08-27
Night Will Fall 2014-06-07
Documenting John Grierson 2014-02-28
What Is Cinema? 2013-09-06
The Psycho Legacy 2010-10-19
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style 2009-11-03
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' 2009-06-29
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock 2008-10-07
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock 2008-10-07
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy 2008-10-07
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators 2008-10-07
Hitchcock in the News 2008-01-01
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema 2006-10-06
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess 2006-09-16
The Making of 'Psycho' 2005-10-26
Shepperton Babylon 2005-08-11
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years 2004-11-24
Hitchcock and Dial M 2004-10-31
Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation 2002-11-05
Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief 2002-11-05
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film 2002-04-02
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin 2001-03-06
Plotting 'Family Plot' 2001-03-06
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic 2001-03-06
'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over 2001-03-06
The Story of 'Frenzy' 2001-03-06
Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' 2000-09-10
The Trouble with 'Marnie' 2000-05-30
All About 'The Birds' 2000-05-28
The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' 2000-04-01
Hitchcock: The Early Years 1999-10-07
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock 1999-08-05
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood 1999-01-23
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels 1996-05-19
The Universal Story 1996-04-21
Ingrid Bergman Remembered 1996-04-06
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great 1994-07-01
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man 1988-06-05
Gregory Peck: His Own Man 1988-03-08
Memory of the Camps 1985-05-07
Terror in the Aisles 1984-10-26
Family Plot 1976-04-09
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock 1973-01-01
The Illustrated Hitchcock 1972-07-15
Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock 1972-07-15
Frenzy 1972-05-25
Hitchcock at the N.F.T. 1969-12-30
Topaz 1969-12-17
The Movie Orgy 1968-01-01
Mondo Hollywood 1967-06-30
Torn Curtain 1966-07-15
Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock 1966-05-20
Marnie 1964-07-17
A Talk with Hitchcock 1964-02-21
The Birds 1963-03-28
The Children of Alda Nuova 1962-06-05
Hollywood: The Selznick Years 1961-12-31
The Man Who Found the Money 1960-12-27
Psycho 1960-06-22
North by Northwest 1959-07-08
Human Interest Story 1959-05-24
Vertigo 1958-05-28
The Wrong Man 1956-12-22
The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956-05-16
The Trouble with Harry 1955-10-03
To Catch a Thief 1955-08-03
Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid 1955-01-01
Rear Window 1954-08-01
Dial M for Murder 1954-05-29
I Confess 1953-02-13
Strangers on a Train 1951-06-27
Stage Fright 1950-02-23
Under Capricorn 1949-09-08
Rope 1948-03-11
Notorious 1946-08-21
Spellbound 1945-11-08
Show-Business at War 1943-05-21
Shadow of a Doubt 1943-01-15
Saboteur 1942-04-24
Suspicion 1941-11-14
Mr. & Mrs. Smith 1941-01-31
Foreign Correspondent 1940-08-16
Rebecca 1940-03-23
The Lady Vanishes 1938-10-07
Young and Innocent 1937-11-01
Sabotage 1937-01-08
The 39 Steps 1935-06-06
The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934-12-01
Murder! 1930-07-31
Blackmail 1929-07-11
Sound Test for Blackmail 1929-01-01
Easy Virtue 1928-04-01
The Ring 1927-09-28
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927-02-14
Hitchcock on Grierson

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