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Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, England on August 13, 1899. He was the youngest of three children born to William and Emma Jane Hitchcock.

After attending a technical school at 15, Hitchcock spent the first years of his career as a draftsman, advertising designer, and writer. An interest in photography led to him working in London's film industry, first as a title card designer for silent movies and, just five years later, as a director.

In 1926, Hitchcock married his assistant director, Alma Reville, and in 1928 they had a daughter, Patricia.

Hitchcock quickly gained notoriety as a director who delivered suspense, twist endings, and dark subject matter. His own personality and gallows humor were embedded in popular culture through interviews, film trailers, and cameo appearances in his own films. He was popular with audiences at home and abroad, and in 1939 the Hitchcock family moved to Hollywood. In the three decades that followed he would cement his legacy by directing and producing his most successful and enduring works. His television anthology, Alfred Hit

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Alfred Hitchcock

Biography

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was a British film director and producer, often referred to as "The Master of Suspense" due to his mastery of the suspense thriller genre.

In a career spanning six decades he directed over fifty feature films, many of which are now regarded as classics, including The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Notorious (1946), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963).

He began working in the British film industry at the start of the 1920s as a title designer before progressing to become a director. He directed 23 films during the first phase of his career in England, including Blackmail (1929), one of the early British sound films.

He married fellow worker Alma Reville in 1926 and she remained a key collaborator throughout his career.

By the late 1930s, his profile was rising internationally and he moved to Hollywood in 1939 to work for David O. Selznick on the Academy Award winning Rebecca (1940). A series of well-received f

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In the early part of his career, Alfred Hitchcock was widely considered to be Britain's best film director. Silent films such as The Lodger (1926), The Ring (1927) and The Farmer's Wife (1928) were greeted with great enthusiasm by critics, and, at a time of expansion and increasing optimism for the British film industry, they were heralded as evidence that British films had reached an international standard of artistry. In 1929, Blackmail was hailed by British critics as a film which used sound and dialogue with more flair and imagination than any or European film of the time. And in the mid-1930s, Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938) reinvigorated the thriller with their fast pace and distinctively British sense of wit and irony.

Hitchcock was thus an admired and prominent figure in British film culture, so much so that a newspaper report on the premiere of The 39 Steps in 1935 could affectionately refer to him as 'the Buddha of British films'. In the wake of his departure for in 1939, however, his centrality within British film cul