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Hitch, The Master of Suspense, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, 亞弗列·希治閣, อัลเฟรด ฮิตช์ค็อก, アルフレッド・ヒッチコック, ألفريد هتشكوك, 알프레드 히치콕, אלפרד היצ'קוק, Άλφρεντ Χίτσκοκ, Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, آلفرد هیچکاک, Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, 앨프리드 히치콕, 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克, Альфред Хічкок
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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980), was an English director and producer. Labeled as the "Master of Suspense", he became known for thrillers, often combined with a dark sense of humor. After a successful career in his native country, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939. Over a career spanning more than half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a distinctive and recognizable directorial style. He pioneered the use of a camera made to move in a way that mimics a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. He framed shots to maximize anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing. His stories frequently feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside icy blonde female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder, and crime, although many of the mysteries function as decoys —or MacGuffins— meant only to serve thematic elements in the film and the extremely complex psychological examinations of the characters. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and feature strong sexual undertones. Through his cameo appearances in his own films, interviews, film trailers, and the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965), he became a cultural icon. Hitchcock is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In 2002, Hitchcock was ranked 2nd behind Orson Welles in the critics' top ten poll in the list of The Greatest Directors of All Time compiled by the Sight & Sound magazine. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States. Hitchcock's critically most acclaimed film is the psychological thriller film Vertigo (1958). Although being a mild failure upon its release, it has risen in popularity over the decades. In 2012 it even replaced Orson Welles' Citizen Kane as the greatest film ever made in the Sight & Sound critics' poll. Regarding visual style, Vertigo is often declared as Hitchcock's most perfect film. The use of color symbolism, meticulously composed shots, and the famous "Vertigo effect" (dolly zoom) continue to be studied and admired. Hitchcock's most commercially successful and most famous film is Psycho (1960), which had a significant impact on the horror genre, especially the slasher film. Hitchcock was able to prove his skills with the mystery thriller film Rear Window (1954), to create suspense within a confined setting - primarily the protagonist's apartment. In this film, voyeurism, one of Hitchcock's favorite subjects, is an essential aspect. Many of Hitchcock's spy films, most notably North by Northwest (1959) and Notorious (1946), had a major impact on the Mission: Impossible and James Bond series.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1899-08-13
- event Death Date 1980-04-29
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 30.8
- info Birth Place Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Alfred Hitchcock
7.9
Rebecca
1940-03-23
8.5
Psycho
1960-06-22
8.4
Rear Window
1954-08-01
6.3
The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01
6.5
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
1999-08-05
6.7
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996-04-06
7.7
Strangers on a Train
1951-06-27
6
Murder!
1930-07-31
7.3
78/52
2017-10-13
6.9
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023-03-05
7.1
Tales of the Uncanny
2020-10-31
6
Normandie ne partira pas ce soir
2021-09-01
8.1
Dial M for Murder
1954-05-29
0
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008-10-07
0
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
2008-10-07
7.2
Marnie
1964-07-17
7.2
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015-08-27
0
Documenting John Grierson
2014-02-28
0
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009-06-29
6.2
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996-05-19
7.4
The Making of 'Psycho'
2005-10-26
6.8
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
2023-07-21
6.4
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
1973-01-01
6
Hitchcock’s Pro-Nazi Film
2023-09-08
6.7
Sabotage
1937-01-08
6.8
Stage Fright
1950-02-23
10
The Illustrated Hitchcock
1972-07-15
7
The Children of Alda Nuova
1962-06-05
7.6
The Birds
1963-03-28
6.5
Blackmail
1929-07-28
3.3
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961-12-31
6.6
Hitchcock and Dial M
2004-10-31
6.2
Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Critic/Historian Leonard Maltin
2001-03-06
7.6
Night Will Fall
2014-06-07
7.4
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006-10-06
0
Masters Of Cinema - Alfred Hitchcock
1972-07-15
0
Alfred Hitchcock And To Catch A Thief: An Appreciation
2002-11-05
0
Writing And Casting To Catch A Thief
2002-11-05
6
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
2004-11-24
6.3
Sound Test for Blackmail
1929-01-01
7.3
To Catch a Thief
1955-08-03
7.3
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015-09-04
7.4
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000-05-30
7
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988-06-05
6.7
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1988-03-08
0
Memory of the Camps
1985-05-07
6
Under Capricorn
1949-09-08
0
Hitch x 4
2018-01-01
0
Mais qui a tué Alfred Hitchcock?
2018-01-01
8
North by Northwest
1959-07-08
7.5
Shadow of a Doubt
1943-01-15
7.4
The 39 Steps
1935-06-06
6.5
A Talk with Hitchcock
1964-02-21
7.8
Notorious
1946-08-21
7.5
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956-05-16
7.1
I Confess
1953-02-13
7
Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16
6.8
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
2009-11-03
5.3
Mondo Hollywood
1967-06-30
7
The Psycho Legacy
2010-10-19
7.2
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927-02-14
0
Grace Kelly – Hollywoods tragische Prinzessin
2022-09-17
5.2
Easy Virtue
1928-03-05
6.8
Family Plot
1976-04-09
7
The Trouble with Harry
1955-10-03
7
Hitchcock at the N.F.T.
1969-12-30
6.7
Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
2000-09-10
6.2
Plotting 'Family Plot'
2001-03-06
6.4
The Making of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'
2000-04-01
7.1
All About 'The Birds'
2000-05-28
7
'The Trouble with Harry' Isn't Over
2001-03-06
7.3
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
2001-03-06
4.7
The Story of 'Frenzy'
2001-03-06
7.6
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999-01-23
7
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008-10-07
7.2
The Wrong Man
1956-12-22
5.8
The Ring
1927-10-01
7.5
The Lady Vanishes
1938-10-07
7.3
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
2017-01-06
7
Show-Business at War
1943-05-21
7.7
The Universal Story
1996-04-21
6.8
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
2017-02-01
6.5
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934-12-01
6.6
Young and Innocent
1937-11-01
0
Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock
1966-05-20
7.1
Suspicion
1941-11-14
6
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017-08-06
7.4
Spellbound
1945-11-08
6.3
Hitchcock: The Early Years
1999-10-07
7.8
Hitchcock Confidential
2019-06-24
7.1
Frenzy
1972-05-25
6.2
What Is Cinema?
2013-09-06
6.1
Topaz
1969-12-17
8.2
Vertigo
1958-05-28
6.2
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941-01-31
6.6
Torn Curtain
1966-07-15
8
Rope
1948-03-11
6.9
Saboteur
1942-04-24
6.7
Her Name Was Grace Kelly
2021-03-20
7.2
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006-09-16
6.9
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021-05-02
6.2
Terror in the Aisles
1984-10-26
0
When Hitchcock Met O'Casey
2019-02-21
0
When Hitchcock met O'Casey
2019-02-21
7.3
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985-09-29
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
7
The Oscars
1953-03-19
0
The Men Who Made the Movies
1973-11-04
4
Talking Pictures
2013-01-05
7.3
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985-09-29
8
Tales from the Crypt
1989-06-10
7.8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-09-20
6
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971-05-09
0
Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25
5.5
Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02
6
Midi trente
1972-03-06
10
Star Life
1990-08-04
6.6
The Dick Cavett Show
1968-06-06
6.6
What's My Line?
1950-02-02
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
6
Samedi soir
1971-01-09
8
Cinépanorama
1956-02-04
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8
North by Northwest
1959-07-08
8
Rebecca
1940-03-23
8
Notorious
1946-08-21
8
North by Northwest
1959-07-08
8
The 39 Steps
1935-06-06
8
Notorious
1946-08-21
8
To Catch a Thief
1955-08-03
8
To Catch a Thief
1955-08-03
8
Vertigo
1958-05-28
8
Marnie
1964-07-17
8
Blackmail
1929-07-28
8
Dial M for Murder
1954-05-29
8
Marnie
1964-07-17
8
Blackmail
1929-07-28
8
Dial M for Murder
1954-05-29
8
Psycho
1960-06-22
8
Psycho
1960-06-22
8
Frenzy
1972-05-25
8
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956-05-16
8
The Birds
1963-03-28
8
Rear Window
1954-08-01
8
The Birds
1963-03-28
8
Frenzy
1972-05-25
8
Rear Window
1954-08-01
8
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956-05-16
8
Rope
1948-03-11
8
Rope
1948-03-11
8
Topaz
1969-12-17
8
Strangers on a Train
1951-06-27
8
Strangers on a Train
1951-06-27
8
Under Capricorn
1949-09-08
8
Secret Agent
1936-05-31
8
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927-02-14
8
Young and Innocent
1937-11-01
8
Under Capricorn
1949-09-08
8
Spellbound
1945-11-08
8
Stage Fright
1950-02-23
8
Stage Fright
1950-02-23
8
The Lady Vanishes
1938-10-07
8
I Confess
1953-02-13
8
I Confess
1953-02-13
8
The Trouble with Harry
1955-10-03
8
The Trouble with Harry
1955-10-03
8
The Manxman
1929-01-21
8
Torn Curtain
1966-07-15
8
Torn Curtain
1966-07-15
8
Shadow of a Doubt
1943-01-15
8
Family Plot
1976-04-09
8
Family Plot
1976-04-09
8
The Wrong Man
1956-12-22
8
Suspicion
1941-11-14
8
The Paradine Case
1947-12-31
8
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934-12-01
8
Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16
8
Murder!
1930-07-31
8
Jamaica Inn
1939-05-11
8
Saboteur
1942-04-24
8
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941-01-31
8
Sabotage
1937-01-08
8
Lifeboat
1944-01-28
8
The Farmer's Wife
1928-03-02
8
The Ring
1927-10-01
8
Rich and Strange
1931-12-10
8
Champagne
1928-08-19
8
Easy Virtue
1928-03-05
8
Rich and Strange
1931-12-10
8
Champagne
1928-08-19
8
The Ring
1927-10-01
8
Number Seventeen
1932-07-18
8
Number Seventeen
1932-07-18
8
The Pleasure Garden
1927-01-14
8
Juno and the Paycock
1929-12-30
8
Juno and the Paycock
1929-12-30
8
Madagascar Landing
1944-01-01
8
Bon Voyage
1944-01-01
8
The Skin Game
1931-02-26
8
Downhill
1927-10-24
8
Waltzes from Vienna
1934-03-15
8
Elstree Calling
1930-02-06
8
Mary
1931-03-02
8
The Mountain Eagle
1926-11-01
8
The White Shadow
1924-05-05
8
The White Shadow
1924-05-05
8
The White Shadow
1924-05-05
8
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945-03-29
8
The Passionate Adventure
1924-07-01
8
Woman to Woman
1923-01-02
8
The Spanish Jade
1922-04-10
8
Three Live Ghosts
1922-01-01
8
The Man From Home
1922-04-30
8
The Man From Home
1922-04-30
8
Three Live Ghosts
1922-01-01
8
Notorious
1946-08-21
8
Psycho
1998-12-04
8
The Passionate Adventure
1924-07-01
8
The Farmer's Wife
1928-03-02
8
The Skin Game
1931-02-26
8
Always Tell Your Wife
1923-02-10
8
The Blackguard
1925-09-04
8
The Blackguard
1925-09-04
8
The Blackguard
1925-09-04
8
The Fighting Generation
1944-10-01
8
Memory of the Camps
1985-05-07
8
Lifeboat
1944-01-28
8
Lifeboat
1944-01-28
8
The Prude's Fall
1925-11-23
8
The Prude's Fall
1925-11-23
8
Number 13
1922-01-10
8
Number 13
1922-01-10
8
The Bonnie Brier Bush
1921-11-27
8
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
2017-01-06
8
Woman to Woman
1923-01-02
8
The Princess of New York
1921-06-01
8
The Call of Youth
8
The Great Day
1920-11-01
8
Tell Your Children
1922-09-01
8
The Spanish Jade
1922-04-10
8
Vertigo
8
Murder!
1930-07-31
8
Sound Test for Blackmail
1929-01-01
8
Lord Camber's Ladies
1932-10-27
8
The Passionate Adventure
1924-07-01
8
The White Shadow
1924-05-05
8
Woman to Woman
1923-01-02
8
Saboteur
1942-04-24
8
Saavi
1985-10-10
8
The House Across the Bay
1940-03-01
8
An Elastic Affair
1930-01-19
8
Lifepod
1993-06-28
8
The Wrong Man
1956-12-22
8
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927-02-14
8
Vertigo
1958-05-28
8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
8
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30
8
Suspicion
1957-09-30
8
Suspicion
1957-09-30
8
Alcoa Premiere
1961-10-10
8
Startime
1959-10-06
8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-09-20
8
Frontline
1983-01-17
8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
8
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985-09-29
8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-09-20