
Directing
Community Rating
6.7
TMDB estimate
Born
August 13, 1899
Died
April 29, 1980 (age 80)
Born in
Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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.

Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail
Self (archive footage)
2024

Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?
Self (archive footage)
2023

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage)
2023

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2023

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Self (archive footage)
2023

Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
Self (archive footage)
2022

Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft
2021

Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
2021

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage)
2021

Her Name Was Grace Kelly
Self (archive footage)
2021

Tales of the Uncanny
Self (archive footage)
2020

When Hitchcock met O'Casey
Self (archive footage)
2019

Hitchcock Confidential
Self (archive footage)
2019

Hitch x 4
Himself
2018

Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?
Himself
2018

Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Self (archive footage)
2017

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
Self (archive footage)
2017

Night Will Fall
Self (archive photos)
2014

Family Plot
Director
1976

Frenzy
Director
1972

Topaz
Director
1969

Torn Curtain
Director
1966

Marnie
Director
1964

The Birds
Director
1963

Psycho
Director
1960

North by Northwest
Director
1959

Vertigo
Director
1958

The Wrong Man
Director
1956

The Man Who Knew Too Much
Director
1956

The Trouble with Harry
Director
1955

To Catch a Thief
Director
1955

Rear Window
Director
1954

Dial M for Murder
Director
1954

I Confess
Director
1953

Strangers on a Train
Director
1951

Stage Fright
Director
1950

Under Capricorn
Director
1949

Rope
Director
1948