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| '''Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock''' (13th August 1899 - 29th April 1980) was an [[English people|English]]-born [[film]] [[director (film)|director]] who achieved great success in [[Hollywood]], creating some of most celebrated thrillers of his day, which earned him the popular title of the "master of suspense". His films, typically cast with Hollywood's biggest stars, were technically advanced and often emotionally powerful, and were designed as crowd-pleasing entertainment for general adult audiences. Late in his long career he created what may be his most famous cinematic moment, the shocking murder of a woman in the shower in ''[[Psycho (film)|Psycho]]'' (1960). Describing his own style, he once famously remarked, "Drama is life with the dull bits left out." Nominated five times for an [[Academy Award]] for Best Director, he was one of the most celebrated film directors never to win the prize. A portly fellow with a striking profile and deep droll voice, he also achieved the unprecedented status of being the most well-recognized film director in [[History of cinema|cinema history]]. | | {{subpages}} |
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| | Sir '''Alfred Joseph Hitchcock''' (13th August 1899 - 29th April 1980) was an [[English people|English]]-born [[film]] [[director (film)|director]] who achieved great success in [[Hollywood]], creating some of the most celebrated [[thriller (genre)|thrillers]] of his day, which earned him the popular title of the "master of suspense". His films, typically cast with Hollywood's biggest stars, were technically advanced and often emotionally powerful, and were designed as crowd-pleasing entertainment for general adult audiences. Late in his long career he created what may be his most famous cinematic moment, the shocking murder of a woman in a shower in ''[[Psycho (film)|Psycho]]'' (1960). Describing his own style, he once famously remarked, "Drama is life with the dull bits left out." Nominated five times for an [[Academy Award]] for Best Director, he was one of the most celebrated film directors never to win the prize.<ref>However, Hitchcock did win an Oscar. In 1967 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed upon him the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which is given to ''"creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production."''.</ref> A portly fellow with a striking profile and deep droll voice, he also achieved the unprecedented status of being the most well-recognized film director in [[History of cinema|cinema history]], having played cameo roles in virtually all of his films. |
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| ==Filmography== | | ==Footnotes== |
| ===Hitchcock in England===
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| *''The Pleasure Garden'' (1925)
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| *''The Mountain Eagle'' (1926)
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| *''The Lodger'' (1926)
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| *''Downhill'' (1927)
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| *''Easy Virtue'' (1927)
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| *''The Ring'' (1927)
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| *''The Farmer’s Wife'' (1928)
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| *''Champagne'' (1928)
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| *''The Manxman'' (1929)
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| *''Blackmail'' (1929)
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| *''Elstree Calling'' (1930)
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| *''Juno and the Paycock'' (1930)
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| *''Murder'' (1930)
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| *''The Skin Game'' (1931)
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| *''Rich and Strange'' (1932)
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| *''Number Seventeen'' (1932)
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| *''Waltzes from Vienna'' (1933)
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| *''The Man Who Knew Too Much'' (1934)
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| *''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' (1935)
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| *''Secret Agent'' (1936)
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| *''Sabotage'' (1936)
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| *''Young and Innocent'' (1937)
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| *''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938)
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| *''Jamaica Inn'' (1939)
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| ===Hitchcock in Hollywood===
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| *''Rebecca'' (1940)
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| *''Foreign Correspondent'' (1940)
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| *''Mr. and Mrs. Smith'' (1941)
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| *''Suspicion'' (1941)
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| *''Saboteur'' (1942)
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| *''Shadow of a Doubt'' (1943)
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| *''Lifeboat'' (1943)
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| *''Spellbound'' (1945)
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| *''Notorious'' (1946)
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| *''The Paradine Case'' (1947)
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| *''Rope'' (1948)
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| *''Under Capricorn'' (1949)
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| *''Stage Fright'' (1950)
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| *''Strangers on a Train'' (1951)
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| *''I Confess'' (1953)
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| *''Dial M for Murder'' (1954)
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| *''Rear Window'' (1954)
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| *''To Catch a Thief'' (1955)
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| *''The Trouble With Harry'' (1955)
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| *''The Man Who Knew Too Much'' (1956)
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| *''The Wrong Man'' (1957)
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| *''Vertigo'' (1958)
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| *''North by Northwest'' (1959)
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| *''Psycho'' (1960)
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| *''The Birds'' (1963)
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| *''Marnie'' (1964)
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| *''Torn Curtain'' (1966)
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| *''Topaz'' (1969)
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| *''Frenzy'' (1972)
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| *''Family Plot'' (1976)
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| ===Wartime documentaries===
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| Hitchcock produced two films for the [[United Kingdom|UK]] [[Ministry of Information]]:
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| *''Bon Voyage'' (1944)
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| *''Aventure Malagache'' (1944)
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| ==Bibliography==
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| Allen, R., and I. Gonzales (eds). ''Alfred Hitchcock: Cententary Essays'' (London: BFI Publishing, 1999).
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| Allen, R., and I. Gonzales (eds). ''Past and Future Hitchcock'' (London: BFI Publishing, 2004).
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| Barr, Charles. ''English Hitchcock'' (Cameron and Hollis, 1999).
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| Bellour, Raymond. ''Analysis of Film'' (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000).
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| Boyd, David (ed). ''Perspectives on Alfred Hitchcock'' (NY: GK Hall, 1995).
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| Brill, Lesley. ''The Hitchcock Romance'' (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988).
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| Condon, P. and J. Sangster. ''The Complete Hitchcock'' (Virgin Publishing, 1999).
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| Corber, Robert. ''In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, Politics'' (Durham: Duke UP, 1993).
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| Deutelbaum, M. and L. Poague. ''A Hitchcock Reader'' (Ames: Iowa University Press, 1986).
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| Fawell, J. ''Hitchcock’s Rear Window'' (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001).
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| Finler, Joel W. ''Hitchcock in Hollywood'' (NY: Continuum, 1992).
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| Freedman, J. and R. Millington (eds). ''Hitchcock’s America'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
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| Gottlieb, S. (ed). ''Hitchcock on Hitchcock'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
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| Haeffner, Nicholas. ''Alfred Hitchcock'' (New York: Longman, 2005).
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| Kirkham, Pat. ''Saul Bass: A life in film and design'' (London: Laurence King Publishing, 2005).
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| Kraft, Jeff and Aaron Leventhal. ''Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco'' (Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press, 2002).
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| Leff, Leonard. ''Hitchcock and Selznick'' (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987).
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| Modleski, Tania. ''The Women who Knew Too Much'' (New York: Methuen, 1988).
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| Morris, Charles. ''The Hanging Figure: On Suspense and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock'' (NY: Praeger, 2002).
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| Naremore, James (ed) ''North by Northwest'' (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993).
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| Paglia, Camille. ''The Birds'' (London: BFI, 1999).
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| Rebello, S. ''Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho'' (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998).
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| Rothman, William. ''Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze'' (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP, 1982).
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| Ryall, Tom. ''Alfred Hitchcock and the British Cinema'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986).
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| Sterritt, D. ''The Films of Alfred Hitchcock'' (Cambridge, 1993).
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| Spoto, Donald. ''The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock'' (Boston: Little Brown, 1983).
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| Taylor, John Russell. ''Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock'' (New York: Pantheon, 1978).
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| Truffaut, François. ''Hitchcock'' (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967).
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| Wood, Robin. ''Hitchcock's Films Revisited'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).
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| Zizek, Slavoj. ''Everything you always wanted to know about Jacques Lacan ... but were afraid to ask Alfred Hitchcock'' (New York: Verso, 1992).
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| ==External Links==
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| *[http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/biblio.html#Anchor-11481 Hitchcock bibliography from Catholic University of America]
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| *[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/hitchcockbib.html Hitchcock bibliography from UC Berkeley]
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| *[http://imdb.com/name/nm0000033/ Hitchcock on imdb.com]
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| *[http://hitchcock.tv/ Hitchcock fan site with pertinent information]
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| *[http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/ Hitchcock scholars site]
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| *[http://www.mysterynet.com/hitchcock/mcbain.shtml Writing for Hitchcock: An Interview with Ed McBain]
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