Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Birthday: 1899-08-13

Deathday: 1980-04-29

Place of birth: Leytonstone, London, England, UK

Also known as: Hitch, The Master of Suspense, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, 亞弗列·希治閣, อัลเฟรด ฮิตช์ค็อก, アルフレッド・ヒッチコック, ألفريد هتشكوك, 알프레드 히치콕, אלפרד היצ'קוק, Άλφρεντ Χίτσκοκ, Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, آلفرد هیچکاک, Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, 앨프리드 히치콕, 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克, Альфред Хічкок

imdb_id: nm0000033

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

The Illustrated Hitchcock

Score: 10.0

Parasite

Score: 8.5

Psycho

Score: 8.4

Rear Window

Score: 8.4

Vertigo

Score: 8.2

Hitchcock Confidential

Score: 8.0

North by Northwest

Score: 8.0

Dial M for Murder

Score: 8.0

Rope

Score: 7.9

Rebecca

Score: 7.9

The Universal Story

Score: 7.7

Notorious

Score: 7.7

Strangers on a Train

Score: 7.7

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

Score: 7.6

The Birds

Score: 7.5

Shadow of a Doubt

Score: 7.5

Night Will Fall

Score: 7.5

The Making of 'Psycho'

Score: 7.5

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Score: 7.5

The Lady Vanishes

Score: 7.4

Spellbound

Score: 7.4

The Trouble with 'Marnie'

Score: 7.4

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

Score: 7.4

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Score: 7.3

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

Score: 7.3

The 39 Steps

Score: 7.3

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Score: 7.3

To Catch a Thief

Score: 7.3

78/52

Score: 7.2

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

Score: 7.2

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

Score: 7.2

All About 'The Birds'

Score: 7.2

Lynch/Oz

Score: 7.2

The Wrong Man

Score: 7.1

Marnie

Score: 7.1

Suspicion

Score: 7.1

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

Score: 7.1

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

Score: 7.1

Frenzy

Score: 7.1

Tales of the Uncanny

Score: 7.1

I Confess

Score: 7.1

Shepperton Babylon

Score: 7.0

Show-Business at War

Score: 7.0

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

Score: 7.0

'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over

Score: 7.0

Hitchcock at the N.F.T.

Score: 7.0

The Psycho Legacy

Score: 7.0

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

Score: 7.0

The Children of Alda Nuova

Score: 7.0

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

Score: 7.0

The Trouble with Harry

Score: 7.0

Foreign Correspondent

Score: 7.0

Saboteur

Score: 6.9

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

Score: 6.9

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

Score: 6.9

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Score: 6.8

The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style

Score: 6.8

Stage Fright

Score: 6.8

Her Name Was Grace Kelly

Score: 6.7

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'

Score: 6.7

Family Plot

Score: 6.7

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

Score: 6.7

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Score: 6.7

Sabotage

Score: 6.7

Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail

Score: 6.7

Torn Curtain

Score: 6.6

Young and Innocent

Score: 6.6

The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'

Score: 6.5

A Talk with Hitchcock

Score: 6.5

Blackmail

Score: 6.5

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock

Score: 6.5

The Movie Orgy

Score: 6.5

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Score: 6.5

What Is Cinema?

Score: 6.4

The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock

Score: 6.4

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Score: 6.4

Hitchcock: The Early Years

Score: 6.3

Hitchcock and Dial M

Score: 6.3

Terror in the Aisles

Score: 6.2

Plotting 'Family Plot'

Score: 6.2

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Score: 6.2

Sound Test for Blackmail

Score: 6.2

Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin

Score: 6.2

Under Capricorn

Score: 6.1

Topaz

Score: 6.0

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

Score: 6.0

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

Score: 6.0

Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?

Score: 6.0

Murder!

Score: 6.0

The Ring

Score: 5.9

Mondo Hollywood

Score: 5.3

Easy Virtue

Score: 5.2

The Story of 'Frenzy'

Score: 5.0

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Score: 3.3

Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

Score: 0.0

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Score: 0.0

Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

Score: 0.0

Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

Score: 0.0

The Man Who Found the Money

Score: 0.0

Hitchcock in the News

Score: 0.0

Human Interest Story

Score: 0.0

Hitchcock on Grierson

Score: 0.0

When Hitchcock met O'Casey

Score: 0.0

When Hitchcock Met O'Casey

Score: 0.0

Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock

Score: 0.0

Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin

Score: 0.0

Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?

Score: 0.0

Hitch x 4

Score: 0.0

Memory of the Camps

Score: 0.0

Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief

Score: 0.0

Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation

Score: 0.0

Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock

Score: 0.0

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

Score: 0.0

Documenting John Grierson

Score: 0.0

Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

Score: 0.0

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Star Life

Score: 10.0

Cinépanorama

Score: 8.0

Tales from the Crypt

Score: 8.0

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.2

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.2

The Oscars

Score: 6.9

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

The Dick Cavett Show

Score: 6.7

Lux Video Theatre

Score: 6.3

Samedi soir

Score: 6.0

Midi trente

Score: 6.0

V.I.P. Schaukel

Score: 6.0

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 5.8

Talking Pictures

Score: 5.0

Reflets de Cannes

Score: 2.0

Spécial cinéma

Score: 0.0

The Men Who Made the Movies

Score: 0.0