Alfred Hitchcock (I) (1899–1980)

Director | Producer | Actor

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (...

Born: August 13, 1899
Died: April 29, 1980 (age 80)

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A Guide to the Distinct Style of Alfred Hitchcock

Through films like Psycho, Vertigo, and The Birds, legendary director Alfred Hitchcock has horrified audiences and inspired filmmakers with his innovative cinematic techniques.

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Filmography

Known For

Psycho Director (1960)
Vertigo Director (1958)
North by Northwest Director (1959)
Known For

The Lady Vanishes Director (1938)
Director

Memory of the Camps (2014)
Frontline (1985)
Family Plot (1976)
Frenzy (1972)
Topaz (1969)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Marnie (1964)
The Birds (1963)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1961)
Psycho (1960)
Startime (1960)
North by Northwest (1959)
Vertigo (1958)
Suspicion (1957)
The Wrong Man (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
To Catch a Thief (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)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Notorious (1946)
Spellbound (1945)
Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945)
The Fighting Generation (1944)
Bon Voyage (1944)
Aventure malgache (1944)
Lifeboat (1944)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Saboteur (1942)
Suspicion (1941)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
The House Across the Bay (1940)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Young and Innocent (1937)
Sabotage (1936)
Secret Agent (1936)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Sanders of the River (1935)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Strauss' Great Waltz (1934)
Number 17 (1932)
East of Shanghai (1931)
Mary (1931)
The Skin Game (1931)
Murder! (1930)
Juno and the Paycock (1930)
An Elastic Affair (1930)
Elstree Calling (1930)
Sound Test for Blackmail (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
The Manxman (1929)
Champagne (1928)
Easy Virtue (1928)
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
When Boys Leave Home (1927)
The Ring (1927)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
The Mountain Eagle (1926)
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
Always Tell Your Wife (1923)
Director

Number 13 (1922)
Actor

Family Plot Silhouette at Office of Vital Statistics (1976)
Frenzy Spectator at Opening Rally (1972)
Topaz Man in Wheelchair at Airport (1969)
Torn Curtain Man in Hotel Lobby with Baby (1966)
Marnie Man Leaving Hotel Room (1964)
The Birds Man Walking Dogs Out of Pet Shop (1963)
Psycho Man Outside Real Estate Office (1960)
North by Northwest Man Who Misses Bus (1959)
Vertigo Man Walking Past Elster's Office (1958)
The Wrong Man Prologue Narrator (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much Man in Marrakesh Marketplace (1956)
The Trouble with Harry Man Walking Past Sam's Outdoor Exhibition (1955)
To Catch a Thief Man Sitting Next to John Robie on Bus (1955)
Lux Video Theatre Lux Video Theatre Guest (1954)
Rear Window Songwriter's Clock-Winder (1954)
I Confess Man Crossing the Top of Long Staircase (1953)
Strangers on a Train Man Boarding Train Carrying a Double Bass (1951)
Stage Fright Man Staring at Eve on Street (1950)
Under Capricorn Man at Governor's Reception (1949)
Rope Man Walking in Street After Opening Credits (1948)
The Paradine Case Man Carrying Cello Case (1947)
Notorious Man Drinking Champagne at Party (1946)
Spellbound Man Leaving Elevator (1945)
Shadow of a Doubt Man on Train Playing Cards (1943)
Saboteur Man in Front of New York Drugstore (1942)
Suspicion Man Mailing Letter (1941)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith Man Passing David Smith on Street (1941)
Foreign Correspondent Man with Newspaper on Street (1940)
Rebecca Man Outside Phone Booth (1940)
The Lady Vanishes Man at Victoria Station (1938)
Young and Innocent Photographer Outside Courthouse (1937)
Sabotage Man Walking Past The Cinema as the Light is Renewed (1936)
The 39 Steps Passerby Near the Bus (1935)
The Man Who Knew Too Much Man in the Raincoat Passing The Bus (1934)
Murder! Man on Street (1930)
Blackmail Man on Subway (1929)
Easy Virtue Man with Stick Near Tennis Court (1928)
The Ring Man-Dipping Attraction Worker (1927)
Actor

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog Extra in Newspaper Office (1927)
Producer

Family Plot (1976)
Frenzy (1972)
Topaz (1969)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Marnie (1964)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964)
The Birds (1963)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962)
Alcoa Premiere (1962)
Psycho (1960)
North by Northwest (1959)
Suspicion (1957-1958)
Vertigo (1958)
The Wrong Man (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
To Catch a Thief (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)
Lifeboat (1944)
Lord Camber's Ladies (1932)
Producer

Number 13 (1922)
Writer

Memory of the Camps (2014)
Effetto notte (2010)
Gas (2006)
Don't Give Me the Finger (2005)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1993)
Lifepod (1993)
Notorious (1946)
Lifeboat (1944)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Saboteur (1942)
Round the Film Studios (1937)
Number 17 (1932)
East of Shanghai (1931)
The Skin Game (1931)
Murder! (1930)
Juno and the Paycock (1930)
Blackmail (1929)
Champagne (1928)
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
The Ring (1927)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Dangerous Virtue (1925)
The Blackguard (1925)
The Passionate Adventure (1924)
White Shadows (1924)
Writer

Woman to Woman (1923)
Soundtrack

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1993)
To Want to Fly (1991)
The Magic of David Copperfield VII: Familiares (1985)
The Magic of David Copperfield (1978)
Soundtrack

The Magic of ABC (1977)
Archive footage

The Movies (2019)
Dans l'Ombre d'Hitchcock, Alma et Hitch (2019)
Icons (2019)
Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal (2018)
Cannes 1968, révolution au palais (2018)
Defunctland (2018)
Blow up (2014-2018)
¿Dónde estabas entonces? (2017)
Unknown Movies (2017)
National Endowment for the Arts: United States of Arts (2017)
78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (2017)
Stupefying! (2016)
La otra sala: Clásicos (2016)
Extra (2015)
Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2015)
Mikhail Bondarev: Hren' velikogo cheloveka (2015)
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2015)
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
Talking Pictures (2014-2015)
Die Ringstraße - Trilogie eines Boulevards (2015)
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014)
Night Will Fall (2014)
I Love Hitchcock (2014)
Top 40 Ultimate Action Movies (2014)
Missing Reel (2014)
Memory of the Camps (2014)
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013)
Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Suspense (2013)
The Psychology of Scary Movies (2013)
What Is Cinema? (2013)
Stars of the Silver Screen (2013)
Perspectives (2013)
Planeta Globalizado (2013)
The One Show (2013)
100 Years of Universal - The Lot (2012)
Amateur Night (2011)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)
Special Collector's Edition (2011)
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010)
The Psycho Legacy (2010)
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock (2009)
Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer (2009)
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style (2009)
A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009)
Dans le labyrinthe de Marienbad (2009)
Hollywood on the Tiber (2009)
Legenden (2009)
Il était une fois... (2009)
Alfred Hitchcock in East London (2009)
ITV News London (2009)
Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock (2009)
Made at Elstree: 80 Years of Making Movies, 20 Movie Memories (2008)
American Masters (1998-2008)
Mike Douglas: Moments & Memories (2008)
Hoge bomen: Pioniers (2007)
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007)
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2007)
Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (2007)
Who Is Norman Lloyd? (2007)
British Film Forever (2007)
Personnel et confidentiel (2007)
Rick Stein in du Maurier Country (2007)
Hitchcocked! (2006)
Billy Wilder Speaks (2006)
Silent Britain (2006)
Un écran nommé désir (2006)
Multilingual Murder: A Conversation Between Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut (2006)
Filmmakers in Action (2005)
Shepperton Babylon (2005)
Fantástico 30 Anos - Grandes Reportagens (2004)
The Hitchcocks on Hitch (2004)
Personal History: Foreign Hitchcock (2004)
Hitchcock and Dial M (2004)
Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque (2004)
Words in Progress (2004)
101 Biggest Celebrity Oops (2004)
The 100 Greatest Scary Moments (2003)
Living Famously (2003)
Sendung ohne Namen (2002)
Alfred Hitchcok and To Catch a Thief: An Appreciation (2002)
Writing and Casting 'To Catch a Thief' (2002)
Making of 'To Catch a Thief' (2002)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002)
Who Is Alan Smithee? (2002)
Biography (1998-2001)
Legends (2001)
Cinéma, de notre temps (2001)
Great Romances of the 20th Century (2001)
The Story of 'Frenzy' (2001)
'Topaz': An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin (2001)
Plotting 'Family Plot' (2001)
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic (2000)
The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' (2000)
Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' (2000)
All About 'The Birds' (2000)
Inside 'Dr. No' (2000)
The Trouble with Marnie (2000)
The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999)
Hitchcock: The Early Years (1999)
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius (1999)
E! True Hollywood Story (1999)
Reputations (1999)
The Best of Hollywood (1998)
François Chalais, la vie comme un roman (1997)
The Making of 'Psycho' (1997)
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death (1996)
The Universal Story (1996)
Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (1996)
Family Portraits (1995)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
Citizen Langlois (1995)
Tales from the Crypt (1995)
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great (1994)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1993)
François Truffaut: Portraits volés (1993)
Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies (1990)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985-1989)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon (1988)
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (1988)
Gregory Peck: His Own Man (1988)
Omnibus (1986)
Frontline (1985)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Ingrid (1984)
Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen (1981)
The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981)
Midi Trente (1972)
Television Land (1971)
Archive footage

Mondo Hollywood (1967)
Sympathy for the Devil: Revisiting Psycho II
Miscellaneous Crew

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Lifeboat (1944)
Tell Your Children (1922)
The Man from Home (1922)
The Spanish Jade (1922)
Love's Boomerang (1922)
Three Live Ghosts (1922)
The Call of Youth (1921)
The Bonnie Brier Bush (1921)
Dangerous Lies (1921)
The Mystery Road (1921)
The Princess of New York (1921)
Miscellaneous Crew

Appearances (1921)
The Great Day (1920)
Art Director

Dangerous Virtue (1925)
The Blackguard (1925)
The Passionate Adventure (1924)
White Shadows (1924)
Woman to Woman (1923)
Tell Your Children (1922)
The Man from Home (1922)
Art Director

The Spanish Jade (1922)
Three Live Ghosts (1922)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Dangerous Virtue (1925)
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

The Blackguard (1925)
The Passionate Adventure (1924)
White Shadows (1924)
Woman to Woman (1923)
Editor

Target for Tonight (1941)
Men of the Lightship (1941)
Editor

White Shadows (1924)
Set Decorator

White Shadows (1924)
Production Designer

White Shadows (1924)

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Awards

Nominated for 5 Oscars.

Another 29 wins & 34 nominations.

Did You Know

Trivia

In a recent USC class on Hitchcock (fall 2000), guest speaker Patricia Hitchcock revealed that two guilty pleasures of Hitch's were Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and Benji (1974).

Quotes

[His entire acceptance speech for the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award] Thank you.

Trademark

[Bathrooms] Often a plot device, a hiding place or a place where lovemaking is prepared for. Hitchcock also frequently used the letters "BM", which stand for "Bowel Movement".