Directing · Leytonstone, London, England, UK · Born August 13, 1899
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.
MovieJaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
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MovieBecoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail
2024
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MovieHitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?
2023
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MovieMy Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023
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MovieMCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
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MovieKim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023
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MovieGrace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
2022
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MovieMythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft
2021
MovieNormandie ne partira pas ce soir
2021
MovieMorceaux de Cannes
2021
MovieI Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021
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MovieHer Name Was Grace Kelly
2021
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MovieTales of the Uncanny
2020
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MovieWhen Hitchcock met O'Casey
2019
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MovieHitchcock Confidential
2019
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MovieHitch x 4
2018
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MovieMais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?
2018
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MovieDark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
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MovieHarold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017
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MovieGerman Concentration Camps Factual Survey
2017
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MovieNight Will Fall
2014
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Documenting John Grierson
2014
MovieWhat Is Cinema?
2013
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TVTalking Pictures
2013
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MovieHollywood Invasion
2011
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MovieHollywood sul Tevere
2009
MovieOnce Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
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MoviePure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008
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MovieBreaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
2008
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MovieIn the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008
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MoviePartners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
2008
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MovieHitchcock in the News
2008
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MovieSpine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007
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MovieThe Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006
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MovieGrace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006
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MovieHitchcocked!
2006
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MovieThe Making of 'Psycho'
2005
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MovieShepperton Babylon
2005
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MovieAlfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
2004
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MovieHitchcock and Dial M
2004
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MovieAlfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation
2002
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MovieWriting And Casting To Catch A Thief
2002
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MovieHeart of the Festival
2002
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
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MovieTopaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
2001
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MoviePlotting 'Family Plot'
2001
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Movie'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over
2001
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Movie'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
2001
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MovieThe Story of 'Frenzy'
2001
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MovieDestination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
2000
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MovieThe Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000
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MovieAll About 'The Birds'
2000
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MovieThe Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
2000
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MovieA Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years
2000
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MovieMonsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
1999
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Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
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MovieShirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
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MovieThe Universal Story
1996
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MovieIngrid Bergman Remembered
1996
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Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
1994
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MovieInnocent Blood
1992
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MovieIntimate Portrait: Grace Kelly
1990
TVTales from the Crypt
1989
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MovieCary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
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MovieGregory Peck: His Own Man
1988
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All-Time Movie Greats
1988
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TVThe New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
MovieMemory of the Camps
1985
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MovieTerror in the Aisles
1984
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MovieFamily Plot
1976
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TVSpécial cinéma
1974
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TVThe Men Who Made the Movies
1973
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MovieThe Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
1973
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MovieThe Illustrated Hitchcock
1972
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MovieMasters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock
1972
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MovieFrenzy
1972
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TVMidi trente
1972
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V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
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Samedi soir
1971
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MovieHitchcock at the N.F.T.
1969
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MovieTopaz
1969
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TVThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
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MovieThe Movie Orgy
1968
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MovieMondo Hollywood
1967
MovieTorn Curtain
1966
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MovieCinema: Alfred Hitchcock
1966
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MovieMarnie
1964
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MovieA Talk with Hitchcock
1964
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MovieThe Birds
1963
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MovieSuspense Story: Nat'l Press Club Hears Hitchcock
1963
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TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
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TVThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
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MovieThe Children of Alda Nuova
1962
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MovieHollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
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MovieThe Man Who Found the Money
1960
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MoviePsycho
1960
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MovieNorth by Northwest
1959
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MovieVertigo
1958
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MovieThe Wrong Man
1956
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MovieThe Man Who Knew Too Much
1956
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TVCinépanorama
1956
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MovieThe Trouble with Harry
1955
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TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
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MovieTo Catch a Thief
1955
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MovieSanta Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
1955
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MovieRear Window
1954
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MovieDial M for Murder
1954
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TVReflets de Cannes
1954
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TVThe Oscars
1953
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MovieI Confess
1953
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TVThe Red Skelton Show
1951
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MovieStrangers on a Train
1951
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Lux Video Theatre
1950
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MovieStage Fright
1950
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TVWhat's My Line?
1950
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MovieUnder Capricorn
1949
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MovieRope
1948
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MovieNotorious
1946
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MovieSpellbound
1945
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MovieShow-Business at War
1943
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MovieShadow of a Doubt
1943
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MovieSaboteur
1942
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MovieSuspicion
1941
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MovieMr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
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MovieForeign Correspondent
1940
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MovieRebecca
1940
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MovieThe Lady Vanishes
1938
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MovieYoung and Innocent
1937
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MovieSabotage
1937
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MovieThe 39 Steps
1935
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MovieThe Man Who Knew Too Much
1934
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MovieMurder!
1930
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MovieBlackmail
1929
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MovieSound Test for Blackmail
1929
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MovieEasy Virtue
1928
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MovieThe Ring
1927
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MovieThe Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927
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MovieHitchcock on Grierson
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