Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock 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.
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Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?
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2023
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
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2023
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
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2023
Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
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2022
Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
2021
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
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2021
Her Name Was Grace Kelly
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2021
Tales of the Uncanny
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2020
When Hitchcock Met O'Casey
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2019
When Hitchcock met O'Casey
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2019
Hitch x 4
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2018
Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?
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2018
78/52
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2017
Hitchcock/Truffaut
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2015
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
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2015
Night Will Fall
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2014
Documenting John Grierson
2014
The Psycho Legacy
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2010
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
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2009
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
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2009
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
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2008
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
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2008
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
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2006
The Making of 'Psycho'
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2005
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
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2004
Hitchcock and Dial M
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2004
Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation
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2002
Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief
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2002
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
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2001
Plotting 'Family Plot'
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2001
Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
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2000
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
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2000
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
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1999
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
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1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
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1996
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
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1988
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
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1988
Memory of the Camps
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1985
Family Plot
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1976
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
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1973
The Illustrated Hitchcock
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1972
Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock
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1972
Hitchcock at the N.F.T.
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1969
The Movie Orgy
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1968
Mondo Hollywood
1967
Marnie
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1964
A Talk with Hitchcock
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1964
The Birds
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1963
The Children of Alda Nuova
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1962
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
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1961
Psycho
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1960
North by Northwest
Man Who Misses Bus (uncredited)
1959
The Man Who Knew Too Much
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1956
The Trouble with Harry
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1955
To Catch a Thief
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1955
Rear Window
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1954
Dial M for Murder
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1954
I Confess
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1953
Strangers on a Train
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1951
Stage Fright
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1950
Under Capricorn
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1949
Notorious
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1946
Shadow of a Doubt
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1943
Foreign Correspondent
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1940
Rebecca
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1940
Sabotage
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1937
The 39 Steps
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1935
Murder!
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1930
Blackmail
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1929
Sound Test for Blackmail
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1929
Easy Virtue
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1928
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
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1927
Hitchcock on Grierson
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Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail
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Hitchcock Confidential
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2019
Parasite
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2019
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
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2017
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
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2017
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
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2017
What Is Cinema?
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2013
Talking Pictures
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2013
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
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2008
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
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2008
Hitchcock in the News
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2008
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
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2006
Shepperton Babylon
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2005
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
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2002
'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over
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2001
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
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2001
The Story of 'Frenzy'
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2001
All About 'The Birds'
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2000
The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
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2000
Hitchcock: The Early Years
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1999
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
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1999
The Universal Story
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1996
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
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1994
Tales from the Crypt
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1989
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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1985
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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1985
Terror in the Aisles
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1984
Spécial cinéma
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1974
The Men Who Made the Movies
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1973
Frenzy
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1972
Midi trente
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1972
V.I.P. Schaukel
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1971
Samedi soir
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1971
Topaz
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1969
The Dick Cavett Show
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1968
Torn Curtain
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1966
Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock
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1966
The Merv Griffin Show
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1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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1962
The Man Who Found the Money
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1960
Human Interest Story
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1959
Vertigo
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1958
The Wrong Man
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1956
Cinépanorama
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1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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1955
Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
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1955
Reflets de Cannes
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1954
The Oscars
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1953
Lux Video Theatre
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1950
What's My Line?
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1950
Rope
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1948
Spellbound
Man Leaving Elevator (uncredited)
1945
Show-Business at War
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1943
Saboteur
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1942
Suspicion
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1941
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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1941
The Lady Vanishes
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1938
Young and Innocent
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1937
The Man Who Knew Too Much
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1934
The Ring
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1927