Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock was born on the 13th August 1899; he died on the 29th April 1980. He was well known for his thriller movies and is known to be the best director of thriller at present. He created unique movies that are well known and popular. In 1920, Hitchcock applied for a job as a title designer when he discovered that Lasky was opening a studio. He then got his first chance to direct the movie ‘Always tell your wife’. Impressed by his work, they gave him another movie to direct called ‘Number 13’. But unfortunately before the movie was finished the studio closed down but he was hired by Michael Balcon to work as an assistant director of a company. However he did so much more, he worked as a writer, title designer and art director.
But in 1925 he produced a film call ‘The pleasure Garden’ as a British/German Production. In 1926, he made his first major movie called ‘The lodger’. And in the same year he got married and then later had one child.
In 1940, David O. Selznick, who was an American Producer, got in touch with Hitchcock and Hitchcock and his family moved to America so that Hitchcock could direct Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
In 1970, he was rewarded the AFI lifetime achievement award, this was when he quoted his most famous quote; "I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen and their names are Alma Reville."
By this time he was starting to have health problems; he started to have kidney failure and had angina. In the same year he knighted and made him Sir Alfred Hitchcock. He then died peacefully in his sleep from renal failure. 600 people attended his funeral, as he was such an inspiration and was such a legend.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Aventure malgache (1944)
The Fighting Generation (1944) (uncredited)
Lifeboat (1944)
Bon Voyage (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945) (uncredited)
Notorious (1946)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Rope (1948)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Rear Window (1954)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Wrong Man (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)