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.
Movies (113)
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail
2024
Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?
2023
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023
Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
2022
Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft
2021
Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
2021
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021
Her Name Was Grace Kelly
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
When Hitchcock met O'Casey
2019
Hitchcock Confidential
2019
Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?
2018
Hitch x 4
2018
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
2017
Night Will Fall
2014
What Is Cinema?
2013
Hollywood Invasion
2011
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
2008
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
2008
Hitchcock in the News
2008
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
The Making of 'Psycho'
2005
Shepperton Babylon
2005
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
2004
Hitchcock and Dial M
2004
Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation
2002
Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief
2002
Heart of the Festival
2002
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
2001
Plotting 'Family Plot'
2001
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
2001
'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over
2001
The Story of 'Frenzy'
2001
Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
2000
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000
All About 'The Birds'
2000
The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
2000
A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years
2000
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
1999
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
The Universal Story
1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
Innocent Blood
1992
Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly
1990
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988
Memory of the Camps
1985
Terror in the Aisles
1984
Family Plot
1976
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
1973
The Illustrated Hitchcock
1972
Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock
1972
Frenzy
1972
Hitchcock at the N.F.T.
1969
Topaz
1969
The Movie Orgy
1968
Mondo Hollywood
1967
Torn Curtain
1966
Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock
1966
Marnie
1964
A Talk with Hitchcock
1964
The Birds
1963
Suspense Story: Nat'l Press Club Hears Hitchcock
1963
The Children of Alda Nuova
1962
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
The Man Who Found the Money
1960
Psycho
1960
North by Northwest
1959
Vertigo
1958
The Wrong Man
1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
The Trouble with Harry
1955
To Catch a Thief
1955
Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
1955
Rear Window
1954
Dial M for Murder
1954
I Confess
1953
Strangers on a Train
1951
Stage Fright
1950
Under Capricorn
1949
Rope
1948
Notorious
1946
Spellbound
1945
Show-Business at War
1943
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
Saboteur
1942
Suspicion
1941
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
Foreign Correspondent
1940
Rebecca
1940
The Lady Vanishes
1938
Young and Innocent
1937
Sabotage
1937
The 39 Steps
1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934
Murder!
1930
Blackmail
1929
Sound Test for Blackmail
1929
Easy Virtue
1928
The Ring
1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927
Hitchcock on Grierson
TV Shows (15)
Talking Pictures
2013
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Spécial cinéma
1974
The Men Who Made the Movies
1973
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Cinépanorama
1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Reflets de Cannes
1954
The Oscars
1953
The Red Skelton Show
1951
What's My Line?
1950