Alfred Joseph Hitchcock Biography (1899-1980)
- Nationality
- English
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- film writer, director
- Birth Details
- August 13, 1899
- London, England
- Death Details
- April 29, 1980
- Los Angeles, California, United States
Famous Works
- First Film Work
- Junior technician, Famous Players Lasky British Studios, 1920; scenario writer, production manager, art director, Gainsborough Studios, Islington, England, 1923.
- Principal Film Work
- Director: The Pleasure Garden, 1925; The Mountain Eagle, 1926, The Lodger, 1926; Downhill, 1927; Easy Virtue, 1927;The Ring, 1927; The Farmer's Wife, 1928; Champagne,1928; The Manxman, 1928; Blackmail, 1929; Elstree Calling (co-director), 1930; Juno and the Paycock, 1930; Murder, 1930; The Skin Game, 1931; Rich and Strange, 1932; Number Seventeen, 1932; Waltzes from Vienna, 1933; The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1934; The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1935; The Secret Agent, 1936; Sabotage, 1936; Young and Innocent, 1937; The Lady Vanishes, 1937; Jamaica Inn, 1939; Rebecca, 1940; Foreign Correspondent, 1940; Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 1941; Suspicion, 1941;Saboteur, 1942; Shadow of a Doubt, 1943; Lifeboat, 1943; Bon Voyage, 1944; Adventure Malgache, 1944; Spellbound, 1945; Notorious, 1946; The Paradine Case, 1947; Rope,1948; Under Capricorn, 1949; Stage Fright, 1950; Strangers on a Train, 1951; I Confess, 1952; Dial M for Murder, 1954;Rear Window, 1954; To Catch a Thief, 1955; The Man Who KnewToo Much, 1955; The Trouble with Harry, 1956; The Wrong Man, 1957; Vertigo, 1958; North by Northwest, 1959; Psycho,1960; The Birds, 1963; Marnie, 1964; Torn Curtain, 1966; Topaz, 1969; Frenzy, 1971; Family Plot, 1976.
- Principal Television Work
- presented series: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1955-61; Alfred Hitchcock Hour, 1961-65.
- Books
- My Favorite in Suspense, 1959; Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery, 1962; Stories My Mother Never Told Me, 1963.