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Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Director · 1899–1980 · 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.

Directed 70

2020s

  1. 2026

    Alfred Hitchcock: The Unseen Home Movies

    Director

1930s

  1. 1939

    Joan Fontaine Wardrobe Test

    Director

  2. Joan Fontaine, "Rebecca" Screen Test

    Director

  3. Jamaica Inn

    Director

    59
  4. 1938

    The Lady Vanishes

    Director

    85
  5. 1937

    Young and Innocent

    Director

    76
  6. 1936

    Sabotage

    Director

    77

  7. Secret Agent

    Director

    69
  8. 1935

    The 39 Steps

    Director

    83
  9. 1934

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    Director

    73

  10. Waltzes from Vienna

    Director

  11. 1932

    Number Seventeen

    Director

    60
  12. 1931

    Rich and Strange

    Director

    62

  13. Mary

    Director

  14. The Skin Game

    Director

  15. 1930

    Murder!

    Director

    67

  16. Juno and the Paycock

    Director

    42

  17. Elstree Calling

    Director

1920s

  1. 1929

    Blackmail

    Director

    73

  2. The Manxman

    Director

    68

  3. Sound Test for Blackmail

    Director

  4. 1928

    Champagne

    Director

    55

  5. Easy Virtue

    Director

  6. The Farmer's Wife

    Director

    57
  7. 1927

    Downhill

    Director

    66

  8. The Ring

    Director

  9. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    Director

    80
  10. 1926

    The Mountain Eagle

    Director

  11. 1925

    The Pleasure Garden

    Director

    57
  12. 1924

    The White Shadow

    Assistant Director

  13. 1923

    Always Tell Your Wife

    Director

Acted in 44

2020s

  1. 2021

    Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft

    Movie

1990s

  1. 1997

    Obsessed with Vertigo

    Movie

  2. 1992

    Innocent Blood

    Man with Cello Case (archive footage)

    53

1920s

  1. 1929

    Blackmail

    Man on Subway (uncredited)

    73
  2. 1928

    Easy Virtue

    Man with Stick Near Tennis Court (uncredited)

  3. 1927

    The Ring

    Man-Dipping Attraction Worker (uncredited)

  4. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    Man in Newspaper Office (uncredited)

    80

Produced 22

1940s

  1. 1949

    Under Capricorn

    Producer

    60
  2. 1948

    Rope

    Producer

    81
  3. 1946

    Notorious

    Producer

    87
  4. 1945

    Watchtower Over Tomorrow

    Director of Operations

  5. 1944

    Lifeboat

    Producer

    79

Wrote 17

1990s

  1. 1993

    Lifepod

    Short Story

1940s

  1. 1944

    Lifeboat

    Idea

    79
  2. 1942

    Saboteur

    Story

    71

1920s

  1. 1929

    Blackmail

    Screenplay

    73
  2. 1928

    Champagne

    Writer

    55

  3. The Farmer's Wife

    Writer

    57
  4. 1927

    The Ring

    Writer

  5. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    Screenplay

    80
  6. 1925

    The Blackguard

    Writer

  7. 1924

    The Passionate Adventure

    Writer

  8. The White Shadow

    Screenplay

  9. 1923

    Woman to Woman

    Writer

Art department 11

1920s

  1. 1925

    The Blackguard

    Art Direction

  2. 1924

    The Passionate Adventure

    Art Direction

  3. The White Shadow

    Art Direction, Set Decoration, Production Design

  4. 1923

    Woman to Woman

    Art Direction

  5. 1922

    The Man From Home

    Art Direction

  6. The Spanish Jade

    Art Direction, Title Designer

  7. Love's Boomerang

    Title Designer

  8. Three Live Ghosts

    Art Direction

  9. 1921

    The Bonnie Brier Bush

    Title Designer

  10. The Mystery Road

    Title Designer

  11. The Princess of New York

    Title Designer

Other crew 7

2010s

  1. 2017

    German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

    Treatment

1980s

  1. 1985

    Memory of the Camps

    Treatment

  2. 1983

    Frontline

    Treatment

    80

1920s

  1. 1922

    The Man From Home

    Title Graphics

  2. Three Live Ghosts

    Title Graphics

Created 3

Edited 1

1920s

  1. 1924

    The White Shadow

    Editor

Appearances92

2020s

  1. 2026

    Alfred Hitchcock: The Unseen Home Movies

    Self

  2. Cavalcanti

    Self (archive footage)

  3. 2025

    Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    82
  4. 2024

    Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail

    Self (archive footage)

  5. 2023

    Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?

    Self (archive footage)

  6. My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

    Self (archive footage)

    74

  7. MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  8. Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

    Self (archive footage)

  9. 2022

    Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin

    Self (archive footage)

  10. 2021

    Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

    Self (archive footage)

  11. Morceaux de Cannes

    Self (archive footage)

  12. I Am Alfred Hitchcock

    Self (archive footage)

    73

  13. Her Name Was Grace Kelly

    Self (archive footage)

  14. 2020

    Tales of the Uncanny

    Self (archive footage)

2010s

  1. 2019

    When Hitchcock met O'Casey

    Self (archive footage)

  2. Hitchcock Confidential

    Self (archive footage)

  3. 2018

    Hitch x 4

    Himself

  4. Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?

    Himself

  5. 2017

    Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  6. Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

    Self (archive footage)

  7. German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

    Self (archive footage)

  8. 2015

    Hitchcock/Truffaut

    Self

  9. 2014

    Night Will Fall

    Self (archive photos)

    85
  10. 2013

    What Is Cinema?

    Self

  11. Talking Pictures

    Self (archive footage) · 1 episode

2000s

  1. 2009

    Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2008

    Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

    Self (archive footage)

  4. In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Hitchcock in the News

    Self (archive footage)

  7. 2007

    Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

    Self (archive)

    82
  8. 2006

    The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  9. Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  10. Hitchcocked!

    Self (archive)

  11. 2005

    The Making of 'Psycho'

    Self (archive footage)

  12. Shepperton Babylon

    Himself (Archive)

  13. 2004

    Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

    Self (audio archival footage)

  14. Hitchcock and Dial M

    Self (archive footage)

  15. 2002

    Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation

    Self (archive footage)

  16. Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief

    Self (archive footage)

  17. Heart of the Festival

    Self (archive footage)

  18. 2001

    Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin

    Self (archive footage)

  19. Plotting 'Family Plot'

    Self (archive footage)

  20. 'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over

    Self (archive footage)

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

    Self (archive footage)

  22. The Story of 'Frenzy'

    Self (archive footage)

  23. 2000

    Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'

    Self (archive footage)

  24. The Trouble with 'Marnie'

    Self (archive footage)

  25. All About 'The Birds'

    Self (archive footage)

  26. The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'

    Self (archive footage)

  27. A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years

    Self (archive footage)

1990s

  1. 1999

    Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 1996

    Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

    Self (archive footage)

  3. The Universal Story

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Ingrid Bergman Remembered

    Self (archive footage)

  5. 1994

    Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

    Self (archive footage)

  6. 1990

    Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly

    Self (archive)

1980s

  1. 1989

    Tales from the Crypt

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1 episode

    80
  2. 1988

    Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Gregory Peck: His Own Man

    Self (archive footage)

  4. 1985

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Self - Host (archive footage)

    76

  5. Memory of the Camps

    Self (uncredited archive footage)

  6. 1984

    Terror in the Aisles

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1970s

  1. 1974

    Spécial cinéma

    Self (archive footage) · 1 episode

  2. 1973

    The Men Who Made the Movies

    Self · 1 episode

  3. The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock

    Himself

  4. 1972

    The Illustrated Hitchcock

    Self

  5. Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock

    Self

  6. Midi trente

    Self (archive footage) · 1 episode

1960s

  1. 1969

    Hitchcock at the N.F.T.

    Self

  2. 1968

    The Dick Cavett Show

    Self - Guest · 1 episode

    79

  3. The Movie Orgy

    Self (archive footage)

  4. 1966

    Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock

    Himself

  5. 1964

    A Talk with Hitchcock

    Self

  6. 1963

    Suspense Story: Nat'l Press Club Hears Hitchcock

    Self

  7. 1962

    The Merv Griffin Show

    Self · 1 episode

    67

  8. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

    Self - Host · 93 episodes

    83

  9. The Children of Alda Nuova

    self - host

  10. 1961

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Self (uncredited)

  11. 1960

    The Man Who Found the Money

    self (host)

1940s

  1. 1943

    Show-Business at War

    Self

1920s

  1. 1929

    Sound Test for Blackmail

    Self (uncredited)

No release date

  1. Hitchcock on Grierson

    Self

Thanked in the credits1

2010s

  1. 2018

    Dangling by a String

    Thanks