Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
Author of Hitchcock: A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock
About the Author
Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899 in London, England. He graduated from St. Ignatius College, where he studied engineering, and took art courses at the University of London. He worked briefly as a technical calculator for a cable company, but soon decided to focus on art, becoming an show more advertising layout draftsman for a London department store. In 1920, he got a job writing and illustrating title cards for silent pictures. He rose quickly, to script writer, art director and assistant director. By 1925, he had become a director, making a melodrama called The Pleasure Garden. In 1929, he directed Blackmail, Britain's first widely successful talking feature. The other movies he directed in England included The Lodger (U.S. title, The Case of Jonathan Drew), The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, and The Lady Vanishes. He was approached by producer David O. Selznick about directing in the United States, and he accepted so he could take advantage of the better-equipped American studios. His first American film, Rebecca, won the Academy Award for best picture. The other movies he directed in the United States included Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Frenzy, and Family Plot. In 1979, he was awarded the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. In 1980, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died from liver failure and heart problems on April 29, 1980 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock's Witch's Brew: Eleven Eerie Stories About Magic, Witchcraft, and the Supernatural (1965) — Editor — 170 copies
Alfred Hitchock Presents: Dates with Death - Tales from A Month of Mystery (1969) — Editor — 36 copies
Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense [10 films] — Director — 18 copies
Ultimate Hitchcock Collection 12 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection: Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho and The Birds (2020) — Director — 12 copies
The Hitchcock Collection (9 Movie Pack) — Director — 12 copies
Alfred Hitchcock: Montage of Mysteries (The 39 Steps, Young and Innocent, Rich and Strange) (2012) 11 copies
Collector’s Edition: Alfred Hitchcock Thrillers: The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934 film] Secret Agent [1936 film] The… (2003) — Director — 11 copies
Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps [1935 film] [and] The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934 film] — Director — 10 copies
Nachts wenn das Licht ausgeht. Eine Sammlung der schönsten Grusel- und Mordgeschichten. (1975) 9 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Collector's Edition: The 39 Steps / The Lady Vanishes / The Man Who Knew Too Much / Sabotage — Director — 7 copies
No Apto Para Cardíacos / Alfred Hitchcock's Death Reach (V. "Summary") (V. Comentarios) (1994) 6 copies
Angstige avonturen 6 copies
Great Cinema Classics - The Lady Vanishes / I Cover the Waterfront / Algiers/ The Scarlet Letter / Missouri Traveler /… (2011) — Director; Director — 6 copies
Duistere dromen 6 copies
Alfred Hitchcock The Masterpiece Collection - Frenzy / Family Plot / AFI Salute to Alfred Hitchcock plus other extras… — Director — 6 copies
Murder [and] Sabotage (Double Movie Video) — Director — 6 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Collection: 3 Films: Dial M for Murder / North By Northwest / Strangers on a Train — Director — 6 copies
Il cerchio nella polvere 6 copies
Nieuwe verhalen die Hitchcock koos — Editor — 6 copies
The Hitchcock Collection 5 copies
Hitchcocks bästa 5 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Vol 2: Revenge, Breakdown, Wet Saturday, Mr. Blanchard's Secret (2000) 5 copies
Hitchcocktail 5 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Vol. 4: Arthur, Crystal Trench, Horseplayer, Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, Bang! You're… (2001) 5 copies
Eigenaardige excecuties 5 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection — Director — 5 copies
Curieuze condoleances 5 copies
The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection (Saboteur / Shadow of a Doubt / The Trouble with Harry / Marnie / Family Plot) — Director — 5 copies
15 Hitchcock Films — Director — 5 copies
Alfred Hitchcock: Box Set — Director — 4 copies
Een aangename dodenrit 4 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 6 4 copies
Macabere mededelingen 4 copies
Alfred Hitchcock : Masterpiece Collection [15 Discs] — Director — 4 copies
The Criterion Collection: Classic Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much / The 39 Steps / The Lady Vanishes / Foreign… — Director — 4 copies
The Alfred Hitchcock Collection: The Best of Hitchcock, Vol. 2: Vertigo / The Birds / The Trouble with Harry / Frenzy /… (2013) — Director — 4 copies
Gruwelijk gezelschap 4 copies
Der var engang et mord 4 copies
Alfred Hitchcock esitab : lugusid, mida ema mulle kunagi ei jutustanud : [valik põnevusjutte 4 copies
Le formiche guerriere 4 copies
The Alfred Hitchcock Collection Vol. 1 (Psycho / Vertigo / Alfred Hitchcock Presents Vol. 1) (1999) 4 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Collection: 13 Films — Director — 4 copies
Een vreselijke vriendschap — Editor — 4 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Collection 3 copies
Psycho / The Birds (Double Feature) 3 copies
The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much — Director — 3 copies
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years of the Master of Suspense (The Ring / The Manxman / Murder! / The Skin Game / Rich… (2012) 3 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Vol 3: Poison, The Perfect Crime, Dip in the Pool, One More Mile to Go (2000) 3 copies
Flere chok 3 copies
Alfred Hitchcock. Meine Lieblingsmorde 6. [Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Stay awake by.] (1999) 3 copies
partita con la morte 3 copies
A Hearse of a Different Color 3 copies
Alfred Hitchcock presenta: cuentos que mi madre nunca me contó: Los relatos favoritos del maestro del suspense… (2020) 3 copies
Alfred Hitchcock: 14 Films 3 copies
An Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Sampler 3 copies
Juego Sucio 3 copies
Racconti per le ore piccole 3 copies
Ontspannen ontzetting 3 copies
Alfred Hitchcock, The Masterpiece Collection, Disc 9-12: The Birds / Marnie / Torn Curtain / Topaz — Director — 3 copies
Psycho / Rear Window / The Birds — Director — 2 copies
The ring ; Champagne 2 copies
The Farmer's Wife / The Manxman — Director — 2 copies
Blackmail [1929 film] / Murder! [1930 film] — Director — 2 copies
Rich and Strange / The Skin Game — Director — 2 copies
Wrong Men & Notorious Women: Five Hitchcock Thrillers, 1935-1946 (The 39 Steps / The Lady Vanishes / Rebecca /… (2003) — Director — 2 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 7 2 copies
Hitchcock Collection: Frenzy 2 copies
Truffaut, Hitchcock 2 copies
Hitchcocks bästa : TV-thrillers och chocknoveller i urval [ur Hitchcock's Mystery magazine]. Saml. 2 2 copies
Hitchcocks bästa : TV-thrillers och chocknoveller i urval [ur Hitchcock's Mystery magazine]. Saml. 4 2 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Collection (Sabotage / Man Who Knew Too Much / 39 Steps / Lady Vanishes / Young and Innocent / Number… — Director — 2 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: S1-5 2 copies
Histórias Que Nunca Esqueci 2 copies
Mai uccidere per amore 2 copies
Silence, on tue ! 2 copies
Hitchcock - The British Years 2 copies
Sei piccole bare 2 copies
Un assassino nelle tenebre 2 copies
Il giorno della paura 2 copies
Carrossel do crime 2 copies
Hayalet 2 copies
Great Pirate Movies: Captain Kidd / Long John Silver / Jamaica Inn — Director — 2 copies
The Early Hitchcock Collection 2 copies
Der alte Trödlerladen 2 copies
10 Movie Mystery Pack — Director — 2 copies
Een spelletje met de dood 2 copies
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Complete First Season — Director — 2 copies
Alfred Hitchcock. Meine Lieblingsmorde 2. [Alfred Hitchcock Presents a Month of Crime.] (1977) 2 copies
Fear (Anthology 12) 2 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Collection [8 Movies] — Director — 1 copy
This Days Evil 1 copy
The Mystery 1 copy
El Poder de la 8imagen 1 copy
La rivista di Alfred Hitchcock n.5 — Editor — 1 copy
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock: 12 Classic Full Length Movies — Director — 1 copy
Hitchcock's Finest — Director — 1 copy
Noc Doc Qua Thu Dien Tu 1 copy
The skin game 1 copy
Murder and Other Mishaps 1 copy
Avventura Malgascia 1 copy
Three Wives Too Many 1 copy
L'omicidio fa buon sangue 1 copy
Suspense sobrenatural 1 copy
The Fighting Generation 1 copy
Moje najmilšie strašidlá 1 copy
Hitchcock Classic Collection: 9 Movies — Director — 1 copy
La rivista di Alfred Hitchcock n.6 — Editor — 1 copy
Blackmail / Sabotage 1 copy
BHAYANKAR RAHASYA GALPA 1 copy
Yamyam 1 copy
Vampir 1 copy
Hortlak 1 copy
Revenge 1 copy
Rikkauden huuma 1 copy
Coffret Hitchcock 20 films 1 copy
The Master's Choice book two 1 copy
Bang, You're Dead 1 copy
Death Scene 1 copy
Lambs To The Slaughter 1 copy
Mr. Blanchard's Secret 1 copy
Poison 1 copy
The Art of Alfred Hitchcok 1 copy
Stories not for the Nervious 1 copy
Viver e Saber Viver 1 copy
Double Feature: The Birds [and] Psycho — Director — 1 copy
10 Great Movies: Hitchcock [DVD] — Director — 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock-The Legend Begins: Man Who Knew Too Much, The — Director — 1 copy
Histórias para Ler no Escuro 1 copy
Vreselijke vriendschap 1 copy
los mas famosos detectives 1 copy
Der unsichtbare Dritte 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock Collection (Rebecca, The Lady Vanishes, Notorious, The 39 Steps, Sabotage, Secret Agent) — Director — 1 copy
Champagne / Murder! — Director — 1 copy
The Margaret Lockwood Collection - The Lady Vanishes | Love Story — Director — 1 copy
Forbudt for br̜n 1 copy
La finestra sul cortile 1 copy
Unmade Movies: The Collection: Seven BBC Radio 4 Adaptations of Unproduced Screenplays (2024) 1 copy
HI Imaghi del brivido 1 copy
3 Films: Drama — Director — 1 copy
The Woman in Green / Young & Innocent / The Man Who Knew Too Much — Director — 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' 1 copy
Falai no Mal 1 copy
CRIMENES SELECTOS 1 copy
PASION POR EL CRIMEN 1 copy
LAS PALABRAS DE LA VICTIMA 1 copy
SESION DE CALAVERAS 1 copy
The Cheney Vase 1 copy
Die drei ??? und der Superwal /Die drei ??? und das Gold der Wikinger /Die drei ??? und der Phantomsee (Ullstein… (1994) 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcocks Kriminalmagazin - Neue Kriminalstories mit Pfiff und Pointe - Band 69 (1974) 1 copy
Music To Be Murdered By 1 copy
MISTERIO DEL RELOJ CHILLON 1 copy
A Talk With Hitchcock [DVD] 1 copy
Assassinos à solta 1 copy
HISTORIAS PARA MORIRSE 1 copy
A Morte Pode Ser Bela 1 copy
The Ring / Champagne 1 copy
The Filth and the Fury 1 copy
Hold Your Breath 1 copy
Matrimonio original 1 copy
Sospecha 1 copy
Jamaica Inn / Easy Virtue 1 copy
Trouble With Harry 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Revenge [1955 TV episode] — Director — 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock's Mysteries 1 copy
Incidente en la esquina 1 copy
Un chapuzon en el mar 1 copy
Unexplained Mysteries 1 copy
33 storie del brivido 1 copy
Downhill [and] The Man Who Knew Too Much — Director — 1 copy
Murder! / The Lodger — Director — 1 copy
Sabotage [and] Young and Innocent (Double Feature Video) — Director — 1 copy
Rear Window/ Chinatown/ Robert Motherwell: The New York School — Director — 1 copy
Rebecca / Spellbound / Family Plot — Director — 1 copy
The Man Who Knew Too Much [and] Vertigo — Director — 1 copy
Meine Schreckensstunden 1 copy
Gruselkabinett 1 copy
Ruchlose Vergnugen 1 copy
Ve Papağan Fıstık Dedi 1 copy
Fjorten godnathistorier 1 copy
Original Old-Time Radio Adaptations of the Movies Directed by Alfred Hitchcock: I Confess, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Rebecca (2002) 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock. Meine Lieblingsmorde 5. [Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Stay awake by.] 1 copy
The Lady Vanishes / Sabotage 1 copy
Double Feature: The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934 film] [and] Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon [1942 film] — Director — 1 copy
Ultima autopsia 1 copy
Parlando del diavolo 1 copy
Diavolo in agguato 1 copy
Notorious / Rope / Rear Window / North by Northwest / To Catch a Thief — Director — 1 copy
Cary Grant Classics: North By Northwest [and] The Philadelphia Story — Director — 1 copy
Kriminalstories 1 copy
Words of Prey 1 copy
Nuevas Historias Para Leer a Plena Luz / Stories To Be Read With The Lights On (V. "Summary") (1985) 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock. Meine Lieblingsmorde 4. [Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Stay awake by.] 1 copy
Hitchcocks bästa under 10 år 1 copy
Così giocano gli assassini 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock ja kolme etsivää. 22 : 3 etsivää ja tanssiva paholainen / Alfred Hitchcockin… 1 copy
Cuentos para la madrugada 1 copy
Drom Soft Kaere Laeser 1 copy
Xeque-Mate 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock Prasentiert: Geschichten, bei denen es sogar mir graust (Heyne Krimi, Kriminalgeschichten) (1967) 1 copy
Przedstawia 1 copy
Misteri Naga Batuk 1 copy
Strašidlá najstrašnejšie 1 copy
Jännityskertomuksia 1 copy
African Queen, Rebecca, Suspicion — Director — 1 copy
Participe el terror 1 copy
Number 17 / Young and Innocent — Director — 1 copy
Cuentos para la madrugada 1 copy
Murder! / Secret Agent 1 copy
Hitchcock esittää 1 copy
Complotto Di Famiglia 1 copy
Jaque y...mate 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock Collection: Number 17, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Lodger — Director — 1 copy
The Man Who Knew Too Much / Dementia 13 — Director — 1 copy
Histórias Mal-Assombradas 1 copy
El misteri de la mòmia 1 copy
UNA STRANA EREDITA' 1 copy
Secret Agent / Man Who Knew Too Much / The Lady Vanishes — Director — 1 copy
The Alfred Hitchcock Collection (Murder, Number 17, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Sabotage, Secret Agent) — Director — 1 copy
Country Girl / Dial M for Murder / Tamarind Seed — Director — 1 copy
Movie Classics: Alfred Hitchcock: Collector’s Edition: Sabotage, The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Murder!,… — Director — 1 copy
Hitchcocks bästa : TV-thrillers och chocknoveller i urval [ur Hitchcock's Mystery magazine].Saml. 7 1 copy
La Taverne de la Jamaique 1 copy
UNA FLOR EN LA TUMBA 1 copy
Adventure Malgache 1 copy
The Alfred Hitchcock Collection: Sabotage, Blackmail, Number 17, The 39 Steps, Young & Innocent, The Man Who Knew Too… — Director — 1 copy
Kadınlar - Komşunun Karısı 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (20 Episodes) - 5-DVD Box Set ( The Perfect Crime / The Case of Mr. Pelham / Mr. Blanchard's… (2017) 1 copy
The Alfred Hitchcock Collection: Blackmail, The Lady Vanishes, Rich and Strange — Director — 1 copy
The Alfred Hitchcock Collection: Sabotage, The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much — Director — 1 copy
Knuder på dødens reb 1 copy
Special Edition: Alfred Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes, Secret Agent, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps — Director — 1 copy
Histórias do Além-túmulo 1 copy
Falso culpable 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock: 4 Tales of the Macabre - Secret Agent / The Lady Vanishes / The Man Who Knew Too Much / Sabotage — Director — 1 copy
Double Feature: Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much [and] The Lady Vanishes — Director — 1 copy
The Case of Mr. Pelham 1 copy
Escape the Golden Cicada — Author — 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much / Sabotage / The 39 Steps / The Secret Agent — Director — 1 copy
Breakdown 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock - Les Années Selznick [Édition Coffret Ultra Collector - Blu-ray Livre] (2017) 1 copy
Io ti salverò 1 copy
The Lady Vanishes / Rich and Strange — Director — 1 copy
2 Feature Films: Mr. Moto's Last Warning [and] The Man Who Knew Too Much — Director — 1 copy
The Hitchcock Collection (Vertigo, The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family Plot) 1 copy
Jännityskertouksia no 8 1 copy
Jännityskertomuksia 4 1 copy
Jännityskertomuksia 3 1 copy
Associated Works
Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators in The Secret of the Haunted Mirror (1975) — Introduction — 400 copies
Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Shrinking House (1972) — Introduction — 395 copies
McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Contributor — 102 copies
Historias Para Leer Con Sangre Fria / Tales To Make Your Blood Run Cold (V. "Summary") (1983) 8 copies
Die drei ??? - CD: Hitchcock, Alfred, Bd.16 : Die drei Fragezeichen und der Zauberspiegel (1980) 6 copies
A Place in the Sun / Roman Holiday / To Catch a Thief) — Director — 5 copies
Die drei Fragezeichen. Geisterstunde. ( Ab 12 J.). Der grüne Geist / Der Teufelsberg / Die Geisterinsel (1994) 4 copies
The James Stewart Hollywood Legend Collection (Vertigo / Rear Window / Harvey / Winchester '73 / Destry Rides Again) (2004) — Director — 3 copies
Hollywood Icons 4 Film Collection: James Stewart — Director — 2 copies
78/52, la escena que cambió el cine — Contributor — 2 copies
Grace Kelly Collection (Mogambo · Dial M for Murder · The Country Girl · The Bridges at Toko-Ri · To Catch a Thief… (2014) — Director — 2 copies
Behave Yourself! / Easy Virtue / The Admiral Was a Lady — Director — 1 copy
The Filmgoer's Companion. Revised and expanded edition with a foreword by Alfred Hitchcock. — Foreword — 1 copy
The Lady Vanishes / Gaslight / Arsenic and Old Lace — Director — 1 copy
The Man Who Knew Too Much / The Stranger / Beat the Devil — Director, some editions — 1 copy
Il delitto secondo Hitchcock — Introduction, some editions — 1 copy
VHS 4: Oliver/To Catch a Thief/My Favorite Wife — Director — 1 copy
The Grace Kelly Collection: To Catch a Thief / The Country Girl / The Bridges at Toko-Ri — Director — 1 copy
VHS 3: Some Like It Hot/Ghostbusters/Vertigo — Director — 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcocks Kriminalmagazin. Band 86. Neun Kriminalstories mit Pfiff und Pointe. (1977) 1 copy
Die drei Fragezeichen und der Fluch des Rubins. Die drei Fragezeichen und die Silbermine. (1970) 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcocks Kriminalmagazin - Neue Kriminalstories mit Pfiff und Pointe - Band 46 (1970) 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville — Associated Name — 1 copy
Book of Horror Stories-7 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Hitchcock, Alfred Joseph
- Other names
- HITCHCOCK, Alfred Joseph
HITCHCOCK, Alfred - Birthdate
- 1899-08-13
- Date of death
- 1980-04-29
- Burial location
- Cremated (ashes scattered at sea)
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Leytonstone, London, England, UK
- Place of death
- Bel Air, California, USA
- Cause of death
- kidney failure
- Places of residence
- Leytonstone, London, England
London, England, UK
Scotts Valley, California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Education
- Salesian College
London County Council School of Engineering and Navigation, Poplar, London
St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill, London, England, UK - Occupations
- filmmaker
film producer
screenwriter
title designer (silent films)
film director - Relationships
- Reville, Alma (wife)
- Awards and honors
- MWA Grand Master (1973)
Academy Award
Order of the British Empire (Knight Commander, 1980)
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- Works
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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- Favorited
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