Alfred Hitchcock - Early life

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a British-born film director and producer, closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. He began directing in the United Kingdom before working mostly in the United States from 1939 onwards, becoming an American citizen in 1956. He directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades, from the silent film era, through the invention of talkies, to the color era. Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular directors of all time, famous for his expert and often unriva ...

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• Alfred Hitchcock - Biography
• Alfred Hitchcock - Early life
• Alfred Hitchcock - Pre-war British career
• Alfred Hitchcock - Hollywood
• Alfred Hitchcock - Peak years and decline
• Alfred Hitchcock - Themes and devices
• Alfred Hitchcock - His character and its effects on his films
• Alfred Hitchcock - His style of working
• Alfred Hitchcock - Awards
• Alfred Hitchcock - Quotations
• Alfred Hitchcock - Other notes
• Alfred Hitchcock - Filmography
• Alfred Hitchcock - Silent films
• Alfred Hitchcock - Sound films
• Alfred Hitchcock - Television episodes
• Alfred Hitchcock - Frequent collaborators

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Alfred Hitchcock - Early life. Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899, in Leytonstone, London, the second son and youngest of the three children of William Hitchcock, a greengrocer, and his wife, Emma Jane Hitchcock (nee Whelan). His family was mostly Irish Catholic. Hitchcock was sent to Catholic boarding schools in London. He has said his childhood was very lonely and sheltered. At 14, Hitchcock lost his father and left the Jesuit-run St Ignatius' College, his school at the time, to study at the School for Engineering and Navigation. After graduating, he became a draftsman ...

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Hitchcock's films sometimes feature male characters struggling in their relationships with their mothers. In North by Northwest (1959), Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant's character) is an innocent man ridiculed by his mother for insisting that shadowy, murderous men are after him (in this case, they are). In The Birds (1963), the Rod Taylor character, an innocent man, finds his world under attack by vicious birds, and struggles to free himself of a clinging mother. The killer in Frenzy (1972) has a loathing of women but idoli ...

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Hitchcock once commented, "The writer and I plan out the entire script down to the smallest detail, and when we're finished all that's left to do is to shoot the film. Actually, it's only when one enters the studio that one enters the area of compromise. Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest." Hitchcock was often critical of his actors and actresses as well, dismissing, for example, Kim Novak's performance in Vertigo, and once famously remarking that actors were to be ...

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Hitchcock the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, in 1967. However, despite six earlier nominations, he never won an Oscar in a contested category. His unsuccessful Oscar nominations were: for Best Director: Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window, and Psycho; and as a producer, for Best Picture: Suspicion (1941). However Rebecca, which Hitchcock did direct, won the 1940 Best Picture Oscar for its producer David O. Selznick. Three other films Hitchcock directed were ...

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(all dates are for release) Alfred Hitchcock - Silent films. No. 13 (Unfinished, also known as Mrs. Peabody) (1922) Always Tell Your Wife (Uncredited) (1923) The Pleasure Garden (1925) The Mountain Eagle (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) Downhill (1927) Easy Virtue (1928), based on a Noel Coward play The Ring (1927), an original story by Hitchcock. The Farmer's ...

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From 1955 to 1965, Hitchcock was the host and producer of a long-running television series entitled Alfred Hitchcock Presents. While his films had made Hitchcock's name strongly associated with suspense, the TV series made Hitchcock a celebrity himself. His irony-tinged voice, image, and mannerisms became instantly recognizable and were often the subject of parody. He directed a few episodes of the TV series himself and he upset a number of movie production companies when he insisted on using his TV production crew to produce his moti ...

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Hitchcock preferred the use of suspense over surprise in his films. In surprise, the director assaults the viewer with frightening things. In suspense, the director tells or shows things to the audience which the characters in the film do not know, and then artfully builds tension around what will happen when the characters finally learn the truth. Further blurring the moral distinction between the innocent and the guilty, occasionally making this indictment clear, Hitchcock also makes voyeurs of his "respectable" audience. In Rear ...

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Hitchcock was in his mid-twenties, and a professional film director, before he'd ever drunk alcohol or been on a date. His films sometimes feature male characters struggling in their relationships with their mothers. In North by Northwest (1959), Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant's character) is an innocent man ridiculed by his mother for insisting that shadowy, murderous men are after him (in this case, they are). In The Birds (1963), the Rod Taylor character, an innocent man, finds his world under attack by vicious birds, and strug ...

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Hitchcock had trouble giving proper credit to the screenwriters who did so much to make his visions come to life on the screen. Gifted writers worked with him, including Raymond Chandler and John Michael Hayes, but rarely felt they had been treated as equals. Hitchcock once commented, "The writer and I plan out the entire script down to the smallest detail, and when we're finished all that's left to do is to shoot the film. Actually, it's only when one enters the studio that one enters the area of compromise. Really, the novelist has ...

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Hitchcock the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, in 1967. However, despite 6 earlier nominations, he never won an Oscar in a contested category. His unsuccessful Oscar nominations were: for Best Director: Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window, and Psycho; and as a producer, for Best Picture: Suspicion (1941). However Rebecca, which Hitchcock did direct, won the 1940 Best Picture Oscar for its producer David O. Selznick. Three other films Hitchcock directed were ...

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