10.0
10.0
The Illustrated Hitchcock
1972
as Self
Alfred Hitchcock
Also known as: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock...
Directing
Born:August 13, 1899
Died:April 29, 1980(aged 80)
Birthplace:Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Nationality:United Kingdom
Height:5'7" (170 cm)
Education:University of London, Tower Hamlets College, Salesian College
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CommunityBiography
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.
Notable Works
North by NorthwestThe Man Who Knew Too MuchForeign CorrespondentThe Lady VanishesThe 39 StepsSaboteurTorn CurtainPsychoVertigoThe BirdsSuspicionDial M for MurderRear WindowFrenzyShadow of a DoubtNotoriousRopeStrangers on a TrainThe Wrong ManStage FrightI ConfessLifeboatMr. & Mrs. SmithFamily PlotSpellboundThe Trouble with HarryTo Catch a ThiefMarnieThe Man Who Knew Too MuchTopaz
Filmography (131 movies)
8.4
8.4
Psycho
1960
Producer
8.3
8.3
Rear Window
1954
Director
8.1
8.1
Vertigo
1958
Director
8.0
8.0
Dial M for Murder
1954
Producer
8.0
8.0
Hitchcock Confidential
2019
as Self (archive footage)
8.0
8.0
North by Northwest
1959
Producer
7.9
7.9
Rope
1948
Director
7.9
7.9
Rebecca
1940
Director
7.7
7.7
The Universal Story
1996
as Self (archive footage)
7.7
7.7
Notorious
1946
Director
7.7
7.7
Strangers on a Train
1951
Director
7.6
7.6
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
as Self (archive footage)
7.5
7.5
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
Director
7.5
7.5
The Birds
1963
Director
7.5
7.5
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
Producer
7.4
7.4
The Lady Vanishes
1938
Director
7.4
7.4
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000
as Self (archive footage)
7.4
7.4
The Making of 'Psycho'
2005
as Self (archive footage)
7.4
7.4
Spellbound
1945
Director
7.4
7.4
Lifeboat
1944
Producer
7.3
7.3
The 39 Steps
1935
Director
7.3
7.3
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
2001
as Self (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
2017
as Self (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
To Catch a Thief
1955
Producer
7.2
7.2
All About 'The Birds'
2000
as Self (archive footage)
7.2
7.2
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
7.2
7.2
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021
as Self
7.2
7.2
The White Shadow
1924
Screenplay
7.1
7.1
The Wrong Man
1956
Producer
7.1
7.1
Suspicion
1941
Director
7.1
7.1
Marnie
1964
Director
7.1
7.1
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927
Director
7.1
7.1
Frenzy
1972
Producer
7.1
7.1
I Confess
1953
Director
7.0
7.0
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
Hitchcock at the N.F.T.
1969
as Self
7.0
7.0
The Children of Alda Nuova
1962
as self - host
7.0
7.0
Shepperton Babylon
2005
as Himself (Archive)
7.0
7.0
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over
2001
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
2021
7.0
7.0
Foreign Correspondent
1940
Director
7.0
7.0
The Trouble with Harry
1955
Director
6.9
6.9
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023
as Self (archive footage)
6.9
6.9
Saboteur
1942
Director
6.8
6.8
Family Plot
1976
Producer
6.8
6.8
Stage Fright
1950
Director
6.8
6.8
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017
as Self (archive footage)
6.7
6.7
Sabotage
1937
Director
6.7
6.7
Her Name Was Grace Kelly
2021
as Self (archive footage)
6.7
6.7
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988
as Self (archive footage)
6.7
6.7
Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
2000
as Self (archive footage)
6.6
6.6
Torn Curtain
1966
Producer
6.6
6.6
Young and Innocent
1937
Director
6.5
6.5
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
1999
as Self (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
A Talk with Hitchcock
1964
as Self
6.5
6.5
Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail
2024
as Self (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
Blackmail
1929
Director
6.5
6.5
The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
2000
as Self (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934
Director
6.5
6.5
A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years
2001
as Self (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
Woman to Woman
1923
Writer
6.4
6.4
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
1973
as Himself
6.4
6.4
What Is Cinema?
2013
as Self
6.4
6.4
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self (archive footage)
6.3
6.3
Hitchcock and Dial M
2004
as Self (archive footage)
6.2
6.2
The Paradine Case
1947
Director
6.2
6.2
Plotting 'Family Plot'
2001
as Self (archive footage)
6.2
6.2
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
Director
6.2
6.2
Sound Test for Blackmail
1929
Director
6.2
6.2
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
2001
as Self (archive footage)
6.1
6.1
Terror in the Aisles
1984
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.1
6.1
Jamaica Inn
1939
Director
6.1
6.1
The Manxman
1929
Director
6.1
6.1
Secret Agent
1936
Director
6.1
6.1
Under Capricorn
1949
Director
6.0
6.0
Topaz
1969
Director
6.0
6.0
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
2004
as Self (audio archival footage)
6.0
6.0
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?
2023
as Self (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
Murder!
1930
Director
6.0
6.0
Lord Camber's Ladies
1932
Producer
6.0
6.0
The Passionate Adventure
1924
Writer
6.0
6.0
The Blackguard
1925
Writer
6.0
6.0
The Prude's Fall
1925
Writer
5.9
5.9
The Ring
1927
Writer
5.7
5.7
Downhill
1927
Director
5.7
5.7
The Farmer's Wife
1928
Writer
5.7
5.7
Always Tell Your Wife
1923
Director
5.6
5.6
Bon Voyage
1944
Director
5.6
5.6
Mary
1931
Director
5.5
5.5
Number Seventeen
1932
Screenplay
5.4
5.4
Rich and Strange
1931
Director
5.4
5.4
The Skin Game
1931
Director
5.3
5.3
The Pleasure Garden
1925
Director
5.3
5.3
Easy Virtue
1928
Director
5.3
5.3
Aventure Malgache
1944
Director
5.3
5.3
Waltzes from Vienna
1934
Director
5.2
5.2
Champagne
1928
Director
5.1
5.1
Elstree Calling
1930
Director
5.0
5.0
The Story of 'Frenzy'
2001
as Self (archive footage)
5.0
5.0
The Fighting Generation
1944
Director
4.6
4.6
Juno and the Paycock
1930
Writer
4.2
4.2
The Mountain Eagle
1926
Director
3.7
3.7
An Elastic Affair
1930
Director
3.5
3.5
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self (uncredited)
2.0
2.0
Memory of the Camps
1985
as Self (uncredited archive footage)
Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?
2018
as Himself
Hitch x 4
2018
as Himself
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Documenting John Grierson
2014
Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock
1966
as Himself
Hitchcock on Grierson
TBA
as Self
Hitchcock in the News
2008
as Self (archive footage)
The Man Who Found the Money
1960
as self (host)
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
1994
as Himself (Archival Footage)
Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
1955
as Self - Host
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly
1990
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008
as Self (archive footage)
When Hitchcock met O'Casey
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock
1972
as Self
Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Incident at a Corner
1960
Director
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