Sunday, 6 September 2020

Alfred Hitchcock | Hollywood Director Hitchcock

Hitchcock


Full Name: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Born: 13 August 1899, Leytonstone, Essex, England
Died: 29 April 1980 (aged 80), Los Angeles, California, USA
Parents: William Edgar Hitchcock & Emma Jane Whelan
Wife: Alma Reville (m. 1926)
Children: Pat Hitchcock
Education: London County Council School of Engineering and Navigation
Occupancy: Film Director / Producer / Screenwriter
First Film: The Pleasure Garden (1925)
Nationality: British / American (from 1955)

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock Movies List

Silent Films (1922–1929)
  • 1922 - Number 13 (Unfinished / Lost film)
  • 1925 - The Pleasure Garden (German title: Irrgarten der Leidenschaft)
  • 1926 - The Mountain Eagle (Lost film | German title: Der Bergadler)
  • 1927 - The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (American title: The Case of Jonathan Drew)
  • 1927 - Downhill (American title: When Boys Leave Home)
  • 1927 - Easy Virtue
  • 1927 - The Ring
  • 1928 - The Farmer's Wife
  • 1928 - Champagne
  • 1929 - The Manxman

Early British Sound Films (1929–1933)
  • 1929 - Blackmail (First British talkie | Released in both silent and sound versions)
  • 1930 - An Elastic Affair (Short film | Lost film)
  • 1930 - Elstree Calling (Sketches and interpolated items)
  • 1930 - Juno and the Paycock
  • 1930 - Murder!
  • 1931 - The Skin Game
  • 1931 - Mary (German-language version of Murder!)
  • 1931 - Rich and Strange (American title: East of Shanghai)
  • 1932 - Number Seventeen
  • 1932 - Lord Camber's Ladies (Producer only)
  • 1934 - Waltzes from Vienna (American title: Strauss' Great Waltz)

Gaumont-British Era (1934–1938)
  • 1934 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • 1935 - The 39 Steps
  • 1936 - Secret Agent
  • 1936 - Sabotage (American title: The Woman Alone)
  • 1937 - Young and Innocent (American title: The Girl Was Young)
  • 1938 - The Lady Vanishes

Late British & Early Hollywood (1939–1945)
  • 1939 - Jamaica Inn
  • 1940 - Rebecca (Won Academy Award for Best Picture)
  • 1940 - Foreign Correspondent
  • 1941 - Mr. & Mrs. Smith
  • 1941 - Suspicion
  • 1942 - Saboteur
  • 1943 - Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock's personal favourite)
  • 1944 - Lifeboat
  • 1944 - Bon Voyage (French-language propaganda short | Released 1993)
  • 1944 - Aventure Malgache (French-language propaganda short | Released 1993)
  • 1945 - Spellbound
  • 1945 - German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (Treatment advisor | Released 2014)

Post-War Hollywood (1946–1953)
  • 1946 - Notorious
  • 1947 - The Paradine Case
  • 1948 - Rope (First Technicolor film | Appears as one continuous shot)
  • 1949 - Under Capricorn
  • 1950 - Stage Fright
  • 1951 - Strangers on a Train
  • 1953 - I Confess

Golden Era Films (1954–1960)
  • 1954 - Dial M for Murder (Filmed in 3D)
  • 1954 - Rear Window
  • 1955 - To Catch a Thief
  • 1955 - The Trouble with Harry
  • 1956 - The Man Who Knew Too Much (Remake of his 1934 film)
  • 1956 - The Wrong Man
  • 1958 - Vertigo (Voted Greatest Film Ever Made - Sight & Sound 2012)
  • 1959 - North by Northwest
  • 1960 - Psycho (Biggest commercial success of his career)

Final Films (1963–1976)
  • 1963 - The Birds
  • 1964 - Marnie
  • 1966 - Torn Curtain
  • 1969 - Topaz
  • 1972 - Frenzy
  • 1976 - Family Plot (Last film)

Television Work
  • 1955–1962 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Host | Directed 17 episodes)
  • 1957 - Suspicion – Episode: "Four O'Clock" (Director & Producer)
  • 1960 - Startime – Episode: "Incident at a Corner" (Director & Producer)
  • 1962 - Alcoa Premiere – Episode: "The Jail" (Executive Producer)
  • 1962–1965 - The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (Host | Directed "I Saw The Whole Thing")

Early Career – Title Designer / Art Director (1920–1925)
  • 1920 - Appearances (Title designer | Lost film)
  • 1921 - The Great Day (Title designer | Lost film)
  • 1921 - The Call of Youth (Title designer | Lost film)
  • 1921 - Dangerous Lies (Title designer | Lost film)
  • 1922 - Three Live Ghosts (Art director & title designer)
  • 1922 - Love's Boomerang (Title designer | Lost film)
  • 1922 - Tell Your Children (Art director & title designer | Lost film)
  • 1923 - Always Tell Your Wife (Co-director uncredited | Short film)
  • 1923 - Woman to Woman (Assistant director, screenplay co-writer & art director)
  • 1923 - The White Shadow (Assistant director, screenplay co-writer & art director)
  • 1924 - The Passionate Adventure (Assistant director, screenplay co-writer & art director)
  • 1925 - The Blackguard (Assistant director, screenplay writer & art director)
  • 1925 - The Prude's Fall (Assistant director, screenplay writer & art director)
  • 1930 - Elstree Calling (Sketches & other interpolated items)

Awards & Honours
  • 1938 - New York Film Critics Circle Award - Best Director (The Lady Vanishes) - WON
  • 1940 - Academy Award - Best Director Nomination (Rebecca)
  • 1944 - Academy Award - Best Director Nomination (Lifeboat)
  • 1945 - Academy Award - Best Director Nomination (Spellbound)
  • 1954 - Academy Award - Best Director Nomination (Rear Window)
  • 1960 - Academy Award - Best Director Nomination (Psycho)
  • 1967 - Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award - WON
  • 1971 - BAFTA Fellowship (First ever recipient) - WON
  • 1972 - Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award - WON
  • 1979 - AFI Life Achievement Award - WON
  • 1979 - Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award - WON
  • 1980 - Knighthood (Knight Bachelor) - WON
  • Hollywood Walk of Fame - 2 Stars (Film & Television)
  • Total: 46 Academy Award nominations across all his films including 6 wins

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