The biography of alfred hitchcock
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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 (), The Lady Vanishes (), Notorious (), Rear Window (), Vertigo (), North by Northwest (), Psycho () and The Birds ().
He began working in the British film industry at the start of the s 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 (), one of the early British sound films.
He married fellow worker Alma Reville in and she remained a key collaborator throughout his career.
By the late s, his profile was rising internationally and he moved to Hollywood in to work for David O. Selznick on the Academy Award winning
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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 (), The Ring () and The Farmer's Wife () 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 , 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 mids, Hitchcock's The 39 Steps () and The Lady Vanishes () 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 could affectionately refer to him as 'the Buddha of British films'. In the wake of his depa
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph HitchcockKBE (13 August – 29 April )[1] was a British movie director who later became an American citizen, but still kept his British citizenship. He mostly made mystery and suspense movies. Despite having a successful career, Hitchcock never won an Academy Award.[2]
Career
[change | change source]Hitchcock started his career in England, starting with silent movies in the s. In the s, he made some successful movies like The Man Who Knew Too Much (), The 39 Steps (), and The Lady Vanishes (). He then moved to the United States, to work in Hollywood. His first American movie was Rebecca (), which won an Academy Award.
Some of his best known movies from the s are Spellbound () and Notorious (), which were inspired by psychoanalysis. His first movie in color was the experimental Rope (). Strangers on a Train () was based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith. In the s, he made three popular movies with Grace Ke