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Alfred Hitchcock

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  • 1899 - 1980

Biography

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen while remaining a British subject. Over a career spanning more than half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a distinctive and recognizable directorial style. He pioneered the use of a camera made to move in a way that mimics a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. He framed shots to maximize anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing. His stories frequently feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder, and crime, although many of the mysteries function as decoys or "MacGuffins" meant only to serve thematic elements in the film and the extremely complex psychological examinations of the characters. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and feature strong sexual undertones. Through his cameo appearances in his own films, interviews, film trailers, and the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he became a cultural icon. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. Often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph, which said: "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else." The magazine MovieMaker has described him as the most influential filmmaker of all-time, and he is widely regarded as one of cinema's most significant artists.

Birthday: 1899-08-13

Born At: Leytonstone - London - England

Casted In:

North by Northwest
213
Rebecca
223
Notorious
303
To Catch a Thief
381
Marnie
506
Dial M for Murder
521
Psycho
539
Blackmail
543
The Man Who Knew Too Much
574
Under Capricorn
4175
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
4297
Family Plot
5854
The Trouble with Harry
11219
Shadow of a Doubt
21734
Foreign Correspondent
25670
I Confess
30159
Murder!
31930
Billy Wilder Speaks
67280
The Making of 'Psycho'
88870
The Psycho Legacy
89994
All About 'The Birds'
132738
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
155988
Show-Business at War
186702
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
188735
The Illustrated Hitchcock
210499
What is Cinema?
219292
Hitchcock: The Early Years
226483
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
254642
'Torn Curtain' Rising
279190
Night Will Fall
290802
A Talk with Hitchcock
318677
Sound Test for Blackmail
319841
Film Violence: A Necessary Evil
336078
The Trouble with Marnie
339775
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
423031

Crewed In:

North by Northwest
213
Rebecca
223
The 39 Steps
260
Notorious
303
To Catch a Thief
381
Vertigo
426
Marnie
506
Dial M for Murder
521
Psycho
539
Blackmail
543
Rear Window
567
The Birds
571
Frenzy
573
The Man Who Knew Too Much
574
Strangers on a Train
845
The Lady Vanishes
940
Rope
1580
Stage Fright
1978
Topaz
2370
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
2760
Secret Agent
2761
Young and Innocent
2762
Spellbound
4174
Under Capricorn
4175
Torn Curtain
5780
Family Plot
5854
The Man Who Knew Too Much
8208
The Trouble with Harry
11219
Suspicion
11462
Sabotage
12684
Lifeboat
13321
Number Seventeen
15007
The Manxman
20213
Shadow of a Doubt
21734
The Wrong Man
22527
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
24197
Foreign Correspondent
25670
I Confess
30159
The Paradine Case
31667
Murder!
31930
Jamaica Inn
31995
Saboteur
31997
The Farmer's Wife
35832
Rich and Strange
36049
Champagne
36054
Easy Virtue
36055
The Ring
36056
Juno and the Paycock
47695
Aventure Malgache
48133
Bon Voyage
48140
The Skin Game
52748
Downhill
52782
Waltzes from Vienna
52907
The Pleasure Garden
64398
Elstree Calling
75793
Mary
97867
The Mountain Eagle
106439
The White Shadow
143534
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
254642
The Passionate Adventure
277352
Woman to Woman
293691
Sound Test for Blackmail
319841
Lord Camber's Ladies
320957
The Man from Home
353132
Three Live Ghosts
353141
Revenge
370543
Always Tell Your Wife
387698
Die Prinzessin und der Geiger
399711
The Prude's Fall
437432
Mrs. Peabody
442196
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