Alfred Hitchcock

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.

Cast

Rebecca

(Man Outside Phone Booth (uncredited))

Psycho

(Man Outside Office (uncredited))

Rear Window

(Clock-Winder in Songwriter's Apartment (uncredited))

The Movie Orgy

(Self (archive footage))

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock

(Self (archive footage))

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

(Self (archive footage))

Strangers on a Train

(Man Boarding Train Carrying a Double Bass (uncredited))

Murder!

(Man on Street (uncredited))

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

(Self (archive footage))

Tales of the Uncanny

(Self (archive footage))

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir

Dial M for Murder

(Banquet Member (uncredited))

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

(Self (archive footage))

Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

(Self (archive footage))

Marnie

(Man Leaving Hotel Room (uncredited))

Documenting John Grierson

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

(Self (archive footage))

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

(Self (archive footage))

The Making of 'Psycho'

(Self (archive footage))

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

(Self (archive footage))

The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock

(Himself)

Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?

(Self (archive footage))

Sabotage

(Man Walking Past the Cinema as the Light Is Renewed)

Stage Fright

(Man Staring at Eve on Street (uncredited))

The Illustrated Hitchcock

(Self)

The Children of Alda Nuova

(self - host)

The Birds

(Pet Store Customer (uncredited))

Blackmail

(Man on Subway (uncredited))

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

(Self (uncredited))

Hitchcock and Dial M

(Self (archive footage))

Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin

(Self (archive footage))

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))

Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock

(Self)

Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation

(Self (archive footage))

Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief

(Self (archive footage))

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

(Self (audio archival footage))

Sound Test for Blackmail

(Self (uncredited))

To Catch a Thief

(Man Sitting Next to John Robie on Bus (uncredited))

The Trouble with 'Marnie'

(Self (archive footage))

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

(Self (archive footage))

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

(Self (archive footage))

Memory of the Camps

(Self (uncredited archive footage))

Under Capricorn

(Man at Governor's Reception (uncredited))

Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?

(Himself)

Hitch x 4

(Himself)

North by Northwest

(Man Who Misses Bus (uncredited))

Shadow of a Doubt

(Man on Train Playing Cards (uncredited))

The 39 Steps

(Man Walking Past Bus (uncredited))

A Talk with Hitchcock

(Self)

Notorious

(Man Drinking Champagne at Party (uncredited))

The Man Who Knew Too Much

(Man in Marrakesh Marketplace (uncredited))

I Confess

(Man Crossing the Top of Long Staircase (uncredited))

Foreign Correspondent

(Man with Newspaper on Street (uncredited))

Mondo Hollywood

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

(Man in Newspaper Office (uncredited))

Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin

(Self (archive footage))

Easy Virtue

(Man with Stick Near Tennis Court (uncredited))

Family Plot

(Silhouette at Office of Vital Statistics (uncredited))

The Trouble with Harry

(Passer-by (uncredited))

Hitchcock at the N.F.T.

(Self)

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'

(Self (archive footage))

The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'

(Self (archive footage))

Plotting 'Family Plot'

(Self (archive footage))

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

(Self (archive footage))

All About 'The Birds'

(Self (archive footage))

'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over

(Self (archive footage))

The Story of 'Frenzy'

(Self (archive footage))

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

(Self (archive footage))

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

(Self (archive footage))

The Wrong Man

(Prologue Narrator (voice) (uncredited))

The Ring

(Man-Dipping Attraction Worker (uncredited))

The Lady Vanishes

(Man in London Railway Station (uncredited))

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

(Self (archive footage))

Show-Business at War

(Self)

The Universal Story

(Self (archive footage))

The Man Who Knew Too Much

(Man in Raincoat Passing Bus (uncredited))

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

(Self (archive footage))

Young and Innocent

(Photographer Outside Courthouse (uncredited))

Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock

(Himself)

Suspicion

(Man Mailing Letter (uncredited))

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions

(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))

Spellbound

(Man Leaving Elevator (uncredited))

A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years

(Self (archive footage))

Hitchcock Confidential

(Self (archive footage))

Frenzy

(Spectator at Opening Rally (uncredited))

What Is Cinema?

(Self)

Topaz

(Man in Wheelchair (uncredited))

Torn Curtain

(Man in Hotel Lobby with Baby (uncredited))

Saboteur

(Man in Front of New York Drugstore (uncredited))

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

(Man Passing David Smith on Street (uncredited))

Vertigo

(Man Walking Past Elster's Office (uncredited))

Rope

(Man Walking in Street After Opening Credits (uncredited))

Her Name Was Grace Kelly

(Self (archive footage))

Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

(Self)

Terror in the Aisles

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

When Hitchcock met O'Casey

(Self (archive footage))

Hitchcock on Grierson

(Self)

Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail

(Self (archive footage))

Hitchcock in the News

(Self (archive footage))

The Man Who Found the Money

(self (host))

Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

(Himself (Archival Footage))

Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

(Self - Host)

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Shepperton Babylon

(Himself (Archive))

Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators

(Self (archive footage))

Innocent Blood

(Man with Cello Case (archive footage))

Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly

Black Baby

(Self (archive footage))

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(Self - Host)

The Oscars

(Self)

The Men Who Made the Movies

(Self)

Talking Pictures

(Self (archive footage))

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(Self - Host (archive footage))

Tales from the Crypt

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

(Self - Host)

V.I.P. Schaukel

(Self)

Spécial cinéma

(Self (archive footage))

Lux Video Theatre

(Self)

Midi trente

(Self (archive footage))

The Dick Cavett Show

(Self - Guest)

What's My Line?

(Self - Mystery Guest)

Samedi soir

(Self)

Cinépanorama

(Self)

Reflets de Cannes

(Self)

The Merv Griffin Show

(Self)
Crew

North by Northwest

(Director)

North by Northwest

(Producer)

Rebecca

(Director)

The 39 Steps

(Director)

Notorious

(Director)

Notorious

(Producer)

To Catch a Thief

(Director)

To Catch a Thief

(Producer)

Vertigo

(Producer)

Marnie

(Director)

Marnie

(Producer)

Dial M for Murder

(Director)

Dial M for Murder

(Producer)

Psycho

(Director)

Psycho

(Producer)

Blackmail

(Screenplay)

Blackmail

(Director)

Rear Window

(Director)

The Birds

(Director)

The Birds

(Producer)

Frenzy

(Director)

Frenzy

(Producer)

The Man Who Knew Too Much

(Director)

The Man Who Knew Too Much

(Producer)

Rope

(Director)

Rope

(Producer)

Topaz

(Director)

Strangers on a Train

(Director)

Strangers on a Train

(Producer)

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

(Director)

Secret Agent

(Director)

Young and Innocent

(Director)

Spellbound

(Director)

Under Capricorn

(Director)

Under Capricorn

(Producer)

Stage Fright

(Director)

Stage Fright

(Producer)

The Lady Vanishes

(Director)

I Confess

(Director)

I Confess

(Producer)

The Trouble with Harry

(Director)

The Trouble with Harry

(Producer)

The Manxman

(Director)

Torn Curtain

(Director)

Torn Curtain

(Producer)

Shadow of a Doubt

(Director)

Family Plot

(Director)

Family Plot

(Producer)

The Wrong Man

(Director)

Suspicion

(Director)

The Paradine Case

(Director)

The Man Who Knew Too Much

(Director)

Foreign Correspondent

(Director)

Murder!

(Director)

Jamaica Inn

(Director)

Saboteur

(Director)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

(Director)

Sabotage

(Director)

Lifeboat

(Director)

The Farmer's Wife

(Director)

Rich and Strange

(Director)

Rich and Strange

(Adaptation)

Champagne

(Director)

Champagne

(Writer)

Easy Virtue

(Director)

The Ring

(Director)

The Ring

(Writer)

Number Seventeen

(Director)

Number Seventeen

(Screenplay)

The Pleasure Garden

(Director)

Juno and the Paycock

(Director)

Juno and the Paycock

(Writer)

Aventure Malgache

(Director)

Bon Voyage

(Director)

The Skin Game

(Director)

Downhill

(Director)

Waltzes from Vienna

(Director)

Elstree Calling

(Director)

Mary

(Director)

The Mountain Eagle

(Director)

The White Shadow

(Art Direction)

The White Shadow

(Screenplay)

The White Shadow

(Editor)

The Passionate Adventure

(Writer)

Woman to Woman

(Writer)

The Spanish Jade

(Art Direction)

The Man From Home

(Art Direction)

The Man From Home

(Title Graphics)

Three Live Ghosts

(Art Direction)

Three Live Ghosts

(Title Graphics)

Notorious

(Additional Writing)

Psycho

(In Memory Of)

The Passionate Adventure

(Art Direction)

The Farmer's Wife

(Writer)

The Skin Game

(Adaptation)

Always Tell Your Wife

(Director)

The Blackguard

(Writer)

The Blackguard

(Art Direction)

The Fighting Generation

(Director)

Memory of the Camps

(Treatment)

Lifeboat

(Idea)

Lifeboat

(Producer)

The Prude's Fall

(Writer)

The Bonnie Brier Bush

(Title Designer)

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

(Treatment)

Woman to Woman

(Art Direction)

The Call of Youth

(Title Designer)

The Great Day

(Title Designer)

The Princess of New York

(Title Designer)

Tell Your Children

(Title Designer)

The Spanish Jade

(Title Designer)

Vertigo

(Original Film Writer)

Murder!

(Adaptation)

Sound Test for Blackmail

(Director)

Lord Camber's Ladies

(Producer)

Saboteur

(Story)

Saavi

(Adaptation)

An Elastic Affair

(Director)

Lifepod

(Short Story)

The Wrong Man

(Producer)

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

(Screenplay)

Vertigo

(Director)

The White Shadow

(Set Decoration)

Watchtower Over Tomorrow

(Director of Operations)

Incident at a Corner

(Director)

Dangling by a String

(Thanks)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(Producer)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(Director)

Robert Montgomery Presents

(Director)

Suspicion

(Director)

Suspicion

(Producer)

Alcoa Premiere

(Producer)

Startime

(Director)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

(Director)

Frontline

(Treatment)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(Creator)

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(Creator)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

(Creator)