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Alfred Hitchcock

 
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Mostly Credited As: Alfred Hitchcock
Birth Name: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Date Of Birth: August 13, 1899 (Age 80)
Country Of Birth: United Kingdom
Birth Place: Leytonstone, London, England
Date Of Death: April 29, 1980
Cause Of Death: renal failure
Height: 5' 7" (1.7 m)

Family:
Father: William Hitchcock
Mother: Emma Hitchcock
Spouse: Alma Lucy Reville
Daughter: Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell

Education:
1908 - St Ignatius College London, England.

Alfred Hitchcock was the son William Hitchcock and his wife Emma. His interest in films began when he started work as an estimator for the Henley Telegraph and Cable Company. During that time, he frequently went to the cinema and read US trade journals.

Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant technician who deftly blended sex, suspense and humor. He began his film making career in 1919 illustrating title cards for silent films at Paramount's Famous Players-Lasky studio in London. It was there, that he learned about scripting, editing and art direction, and rose to assistant director in 1922. In 1923, he directed his first movie when the director of Always Tell Your Wife (1923) fell ill. Impressed by his work, the studio chiefs gave him his first directing assignment on Number 13 or Mrs. Peabody (1922)
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Alfred Hitchcock TV Appearances
  
Main cast 
Show: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)(1985)As: Host
Show: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour(1962)As: Host
Show: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)(1955)As: Host
Episode Cast Credits 
Show: The Men Who Made the Movies (1973) 
  • Alfred Hitchcock 01x02: (1973) As Himself 
Show: The Academy Awards (1929) 
  • The 40th Annual Academy Awards 40x01: (Apr/10/1968) As Himself - Thalberg Award Recipient 
  • The 18th Annual Academy Awards 18x01: (Mar/07/1946) As Best Director Nominee 
  • The 17th Annual Academy Awards 17x01: (Mar/15/1945) As Best Director Nominee 
  • The 13th Annual Academy Awards 13x01: (Feb/27/1941) As Best Director Nominee 
Show: What's My Line? (US) (1950) 
  • EPISODE #224 06x02: (Sep/12/1954) As Mystery Guest #2 
 
Alfred Hitchcock Crew Credits
  
Show Crew  
Show: Alcoa Premiere (1961)• Executive Producer
Show: Suspicion (1957)• Executive Producer
Show: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (1955)• Executive Producer
Show: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)• Producer
• Executive Producer
Episode Crew  
Show: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) (Credited in 1 episodes from this show) 
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Director (1 Credits)
• I Saw the Whole Thing 01x04 Oct/11/1962 As: Director
Show: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (1955) (Credited in 17 episodes from this show) 
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• Bang, You're Dead 07x02 Oct/17/1961 As: Director
• The Horse Player 06x22 Mar/14/1961 As: Director
• Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat 06x01 Sep/27/1960 As: Director
• The Crystal Trench 05x02 Oct/04/1959 As: Director
• Arthur 05x01 Sep/27/1959 As: Director
Show: Suspicion (1957) (Credited in 1 episodes from this show) 
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• Four O'Clock 01x01 Sep/30/1957 As: Director
Show: Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theatre (1950) (Credited in 1 episodes from this show) 
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• A Case of Identity 05x20 Jan/11/1954 As: Director
Overview  
Alfred Hitchcock worked in 20 episodes from 4 different TV shows
as Director: 20 episodes
 
Alfred Hitchcock Trivia
  
His height was 5' 7" (1.70 m).
 
He was born only one day before his wife, Alma Reville.
 
He has a daughter, Patricia Hitchcock with his wife, Alma Reville.
 
He couldn't stand to even look at his wife, Alma Reville, while she was pregnant.
 
His daughter, Patricia Hitchcock is an actress.
 
His daughter, Patricia Hitchcock, acted in a few of his films; Stage Fight (1950), Strangers On A Train (1951) and Psycho (1960).
 
His favorite movie was Der Müde Tod (1921) by Fritz Lang.
 
He thought of Luis Bunuel as the best director.
 
He has a cameo in most of his films.
 
He often used the "wrong man" or "mistaken identity" theme in his movies.
 
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Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
  
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theater admission and the babysitter were worth it.
 
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
 
Actors are cattle.
 
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
 
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
 
Dialog should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
 
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
 
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
 
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
 
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
 
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