
Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Acting (103 movies)

Rebecca
1940

Psycho
1960

Rear Window
1954

The Movie Orgy
1968

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
1999

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996

Strangers on a Train
1951

Murder!
1930

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023

Tales of the Uncanny
2020

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
2021

Dial M for Murder
1954

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008

Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
2008

Marnie
1964

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996

The Making of 'Psycho'
2005

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023

The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
1973

Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?
2023

Stage Fright
1950

Sabotage
1937

The Illustrated Hitchcock
1972

The Children of Alda Nuova
1962

The Birds
1963

Blackmail
1929

Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961

Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
2001

Hitchcock and Dial M
2004

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006

Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock
1972

Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation
2002

Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief
2002

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
2004

Sound Test for Blackmail
1929

To Catch a Thief
1955

The Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988

Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988

Memory of the Camps
1985

Under Capricorn
1949

Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?
2018

Hitch x 4
2018

North by Northwest
1959

Shadow of a Doubt
1943

The 39 Steps
1935

A Talk with Hitchcock
1964

Notorious
1946

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956

I Confess
1953

Foreign Correspondent
1940

Mondo Hollywood
1967

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927

Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
2022

Easy Virtue
1928

Family Plot
1976

The Trouble with Harry
1955

Hitchcock at the N.F.T.
1969

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
2000

All About 'The Birds'
2000

Plotting 'Family Plot'
2001

The Story of 'Frenzy'
2001

The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
2000

'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
2001

'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over
2001

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008

The Wrong Man
1956

The Ring
1927

The Lady Vanishes
1938

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
2017

Show-Business at War
1943

The Universal Story
1996

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934

Young and Innocent
1937

Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock
1966

Suspicion
1941

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017

Spellbound
1945

A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years
2001

Hitchcock Confidential
2019

Frenzy
1972

What Is Cinema?
2013

Topaz
1969

Torn Curtain
1966

Saboteur
1942

Rope
1948

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941

Vertigo
1958

Her Name Was Grace Kelly
2021

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006

I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021

Terror in the Aisles
1984

When Hitchcock met O'Casey
2019

Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail
2024

Hitchcock in the News
2008

The Man Who Found the Money
1960

Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
1955

Shepperton Babylon
2005
Directing (62 movies)

North by Northwest
1959

Rebecca
1940

The 39 Steps
1935

To Catch a Thief
1955

Notorious
1946

Marnie
1964

Psycho
1960

Dial M for Murder
1954

Blackmail
1929

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956

Rear Window
1954

The Birds
1963

Frenzy
1972

Rope
1948

Topaz
1969

Strangers on a Train
1951

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927

Secret Agent
1936

Young and Innocent
1937

Under Capricorn
1949

Spellbound
1945

Stage Fright
1950

The Lady Vanishes
1938

I Confess
1953

The Trouble with Harry
1955

The Manxman
1929

Torn Curtain
1966

Shadow of a Doubt
1943

Family Plot
1976

Suspicion
1941

The Wrong Man
1956

The Paradine Case
1947

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934

Foreign Correspondent
1940

Murder!
1930

Saboteur
1942

Jamaica Inn
1939

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941

Sabotage
1937

Lifeboat
1944

The Farmer's Wife
1928

Rich and Strange
1931

Champagne
1928

The Ring
1927

Easy Virtue
1928

Number Seventeen
1932

The Pleasure Garden
1925

Juno and the Paycock
1930

Aventure Malgache
1944

Bon Voyage
1944

Downhill
1927

The Skin Game
1931

Waltzes from Vienna
1934

Elstree Calling
1930

Mary
1931

The Mountain Eagle
1926

Always Tell Your Wife
1923

The Fighting Generation
1944

Sound Test for Blackmail
1929
An Elastic Affair
1930

Vertigo
1958
Incident at a Corner
1960
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Woman to Woman | 1923 | Writer |
| The White Shadow | 1924 | Screenplay |
| The Passionate Adventure | 1924 | Writer |
| The Blackguard | 1925 | Writer |
| The Prude's Fall | 1925 | Writer |
| The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | 1927 | Screenplay |
| The Ring | 1927 | Writer |
| The Farmer's Wife | 1928 | Writer |
| Champagne | 1928 | Writer |
| Blackmail | 1929 | Screenplay |
| Juno and the Paycock | 1930 | Writer |
| Number Seventeen | 1932 | Screenplay |
| Lord Camber's Ladies | 1932 | Producer |
| Lifeboat | 1944 | Producer |
| Notorious | 1946 | Producer |
| Rope | 1948 | Producer |
| Under Capricorn | 1949 | Producer |
| Stage Fright | 1950 | Producer |
| Strangers on a Train | 1951 | Producer |
| I Confess | 1953 | Producer |
| Dial M for Murder | 1954 | Producer |
| Rear Window | 1954 | Producer |
| To Catch a Thief | 1955 | Producer |
| The Trouble with Harry | 1955 | Producer |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1956 | Producer |
| The Wrong Man | 1956 | Producer |
| Vertigo | 1958 | Producer |
| North by Northwest | 1959 | Producer |
| Psycho | 1960 | Producer |
| The Birds | 1963 | Producer |
| Marnie | 1964 | Producer |
| Torn Curtain | 1966 | Producer |
| Frenzy | 1972 | Producer |
| Family Plot | 1976 | Producer |