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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
"Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement
and, occasionally, a hearty meal."
"Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders."
— Alfred Hitchcock
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He adopted American citizenship in 1956
He appears on a 32-cent U.S. postage stamp released 8/3/98 in Los Angeles, California
Appears on a 44’ USA commemorative postage stamp, issued 11 August 2009,
Alfred Hitchcock entry at Wikipedia
Alfred Hitchcock credits [1921-76] at Internet Movie Database
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Alfred Hitchcock received the Irving Thalberg Award from the Academy in 1968 and 5 Oscar nominations for Best Director |
He also received
Kinema Junpo Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1948
eight D.G.A. Best Director nominations, 1952-61
twelve Golden Laurel Awards, 1958-71
D.G.A. Lifetime Achievement Award in 1968
BAFTA Academy Fellowship in 1971
Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 1974
American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1979
Honorary Knighthood, C.B.E. from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in 1980
listing by The Atlantic Monthly among America's Most Influential Filmmakers [Dec 2006]
and two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (for Movies & for TV)
Links
Alfred Hitchcock entry at Wikipedia
Alfred Hitchcock credits [1921-76] at Internet Movie Database
browse DVDs at the Alfred Hitchcock Store on Amazon
Alfred Hitchcock posters category at AllPosters.com
Movies By Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock credits [1921-76] at Internet Movie Database
browse DVDs at the Alfred Hitchcock Store on Amazon
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"The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection" DVD Box Set [2004]
Warner Home Video DVD set [9/2004] 9 disks for $46.49 includes "Dial M For Murder" [1954; originally filmed in 3-D]; "Foreign Correspondent" [1940]; "I Confess" [1953]; "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" [1941]; "North By Northwest" [1959] starring Cary Grant; "Stage Fright" [1950]; "Strangers On A Train" [1951] 2-disc edition; "Suspicion" [1941]; and "The Wrong Man" [1956]; with eight 'Making of..." docufilms, newsreels, trailers, featurettes, and commentary |
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"Alfred Hitchcock Collection: 13 Films on 5 Disks" [2005]
Diamond Ent. b&w DVD set [8/2005] 5 disks for $9.95 contains 13 features: "Blackmail" [1929 sound]; "Juno and The Paycock" [1930]; "Murder!" [1930]; "The Skin Game" [1931]; "Rich and Strange" [1931]; "Number 17" [1932]; "The 39 Steps" [1935]; "Sabotage" [1936]; "Secret Agent" [1936]; "Young and Innocent" [1937]; "The Lady Vanishes" [1938]; "Jamaica Inn" [1939]; and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956] |
 | "Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection" DVD Box Set [2005]
Universal Studios Home Ent. color/b&w DVD set [10/2005] for $98.99 contains 14 feature films: "Saboteur" [1942]; "Shadow of A Doubt" [1943]; "Rope" [1948]; "Rear Window" [1954]; "The Trouble With Harry" [1955]; "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956]; "Vertigo" [1958]; "Psycho" [1960]; "The Birds" [1963]; "Marnie" [1964]; "Torn Curtain" [1966]; "Topaz" [1969]; "Frenzy" [1972]; and "Family Plot" [1976] |
 | "Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins - 20 Movie Classics" DVD Box Set [2007]
Mill Creek Ent. b&w DVD set [9/2007] 4 disks for $9.49 contains 18 b&w feature films & 2 TV episodes: "The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog" [1927 silent]; "The Ring" [1927 silent]; "The Farmer's Wife" [1928 silent]; "Champagne" [1928 silent]; "Easy Virtue" [1928 silent]; "The Manxman" [1929 silent]; "Blackmail" [1929 sound]; "Juno and The Paycock" [1930]; "Rich and Strange" [1931]; "The Skin Game" [1931]; "Number Seventeen" [1932]; "The 39 Steps" [1935]; "Secret Agent" [1936]; "Sabotage" [1936]; "Young and Innocent" [1937]; "The Lady Vanishes" [1938]; "Jamaica Inn" [1939]; "The Chaney Vase" [1955 TV episode]; "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956]; "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" [1962 TV episode]; and bonus 55 minutes of Hitchcock trailers |
 | "The Ultimate Hitchcock Collection" DVD Box Set [2007] St. Clair Vision b&w/color DVD set [11/2007] 6 disks for $22.49 contains 18 b&w feature films & 2 TV episodes: "The Ring" [1927 silent]; "The Lodger" [1927 silent]; "Champagne" [1928 silent]; "The Farmer's Wife" [1928 silent]; "Easy Virtue" [1928 silent]; "The Manxman" [1929 silent]; "Blackmail" [1929 sound]; "Juno and The Paycock" [1930]; "The Skin Game" [1931]; "Rich and Strange" [1931]; "Number 17" [1932]; "The 39 Steps" [1935]; "Sabotage" [1936]; "Secret Agent" [1936]; "Young and Innocent" [1937]; "The Lady Vanishes" [1938]; "Jamaica Inn" [1939]; and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956]; extras include posters, trailers, two radio shows & documentary "About Hitchcock" |
 | "Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years of the Master of Suspense" DVD Box Set [2007] LionsGate DVD set [2/2007] 3 disks for $20.99 contains 5 b&w feature films: "The Ring" [1927 silent]; "The Manxman" [1929 silent]; "Murder!" [1930]; "The Skin Game" [1931]; and "Rich and Strange" [1931] |
 | "Alfred Hitchcock: Premiere Collection" DVD Box Set [2008]
M.G.M. Video b&w DVD set [10/2008] 8 disks for $78.99 contains 8 b&w feature films: "The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog" [1927 silent]; "Sabotage" [1936]; "Young and Innocent" [1937]; "Rebecca" [1940]; "Lifeboat" [1944]; "Spellbound" [1945]; "Notorious" [1946]; and "The Paradine Case" [1947]; extras include featurettes, trailers, still photos & commentary |
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"T.C.M. Greatest Classic Films Collection: Hitchcock Thrillers" [2009] 
Warner Home Video DVD set [11/2009] 2 disks for $15.99 contains four feature films: "Suspicion" [1941]; "Strangers On A Train" [1951]; "I Confess" [1953] starring Montgomery Clift; and "The Wrong Man" [1956] starring Henry Fonda; extras include trailers, commentaries & four featurettes |
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Collection-Jamaica-Innocent/dp/B00000JQSP/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Collection-Psycho-Presents/dp/B000055Y18/ = vol 1
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Collection-Saboteur-Presents/dp/B000055Y19/ = vol 2
"Number 13" [1922 uncompleted feature; all footage lost]
"The Ring" [1927 silent]
"The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog" [1927 silent]
"Champagne" [1928 silent]
"The Farmer's Wife" [1928 silent]
"Easy Virtue" [1928 silent]
"The Manxman" [1929 silent]
"Blackmail" [1929 sound]
"Murder!" [1930] = bilingual
"Juno and The Paycock" [1930]
"The Skin Game" [1931]
"Rich and Strange" [1931]
"Number 17" [1932]
"The 39 Steps" [U.K. 1935]
"Sabotage" [1936]
"Secret Agent" [1936]
"Young and Innocent"
[Gaumont British Pictures Nov 1937]
 | USA Title "The Girl Was Young"; a writer finds the body of his ex-lover, a married film actress, on the beach and is arrested for the murder. He escapes with the help of the police constable's infatuated daughter, and they set out to prove his innocence.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; based on Josephine Tey's 1936 novel "A Shilling For Candles"; starring Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, John Longden, George Curzon, Basil Radford, Pamela Carme & George Merritt
M.G.M. Home Video b&w DVD [2/2009] for $17.99 Diamond Ent. b&w VHS [5/95] for $19.98 full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia 11"x17" "The Girl Was Young" poster available for $14.99 at AllPosters.com |
"The Lady Vanishes" [Gaumont/M.G.M. Nov 1938]
 | Train scenes filmed in Hampshire, England; when a train is forced to stay overnight at a small station in the mountains of Europe, a young woman talks to a nice old lady; in the morning, she realizes that the old woman is missing, and when everyone tries to convince her that there never was such a woman on board, she is determined to find out the truth. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; based on a novel by Ethel Lina White; starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parke, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford & Mary Clare
Criterion b&w DVD [11/2007] 2 disks - out of prodn/many used Criterion b&w DVD [5/98] out of prodn/many used Public Domain Flicks b&w DVD [12/2008] for $19.95 U.A.V. Corp. b&w VHS [7/97] out of prodn/used 11"x17" poster {as at left} from Amazon for $3.66 full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Wheel Spins" [1936 novel] by Ethel Lina White [1876-1944] I Books / Otto Penzler mass pb [8/2004] out of print/used Zebra / Otto Penzler mass pb [2/87] out of print/many used Bloomsbury Publng 7½x5 pb [5/97] out of print/used Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. hardcover [6/69] out of print/used |
made in the USA
"Jamaica Inn" [1939]
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"Rebecca" [Selznick/United Artists March 1940] Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; based on the Daphne Du Maurier novel; starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny & C. Aubrey Smith; won Oscars for Best Picture & Best B&W Cinematography, Oscar noms for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor [LO], Best Actress [JF], Best Supporting Actress [JA], Best B&W Art Direction, Best Music Score, Best Special Effects & Best Film Editing full credits from IMDb |
"Foreign Correspondent" [1940]
"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" [1941]
"Suspicion" [1941]
"Saboteur" [1942]
"Shadow of A Doubt" [1943 noir]
starring Teresa Wright & Joseph Cotten
"Lifeboat" [Fox Jan 1944]
 | A freighter and a German U-boat do battle in mid-Atlantic and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the lifeboats: a female journalist, a wealthy industrialist, the radio operator, a nurse, a Negro steward, a sailor, a hysterical Englishwoman, and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; script by Jo Swerling, based on a story by John Steinbeck; starring Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee & Heather Angel; Oscar noms for Best Director, Best Original Story (JS), Best B&W Cinematography
Fox Special Edition b&w DVD [10/2005] for $9.99 Fox b&w VHS [12/97] out of prodn/many used 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $19.99 full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Notorious" [1946]
"Rope" [1948]
"Stage Fright" [1950]
"Strangers On A Train"
[Warner Bros. July 1951]
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Two men meet on a train and discuss swapping murders: the police will find no connection and each murder will remain unsolved. One man dismisses the conversation as idle banter. But when he travels to Mexico, and is notified by police that his estranged wife has indeed died under suspicious circumstances, he feels trapped – and then the stranger makes demands for the reciprocal murder. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; script by Raymond Chandler & others from the Highsmith novel; starring Farley Granger & Robert Walker
Warner b&w widescreen DVD [9/98] for $10.99 Warner b&w British version VHS [6/2001] for $14.95 Warner b&w Hollywood version VHS [8/2000] for $14.95 full credits on IMDb |
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"Strangers On A Train" [1950 novel] by Patricia Highsmith [1921-95] W.W. Norton pb [8/2001] for $11.16 Penguin mass pb [6/79] out of print/many used |
"I Confess" [1953]
"Dial M For Murder" [1954[
originally filmed in 3-D by Alfred Hitchcock + http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046912/
"Rear Window" [1954] starring James Stewart
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcocks-Window-Cambridge-Handbooks/dp/0521564530/
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Looking-Hitchcocks-Rear-Window/dp/0879100877/
"The Trouble With Harry" [1955]
"To Catch a Thief" [1955]
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV series [1955-1962]
TV series theme music, from Gounod's "Funeral March of A Marionette" {60 seconds}
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half-hour b&w series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock
series credits at IMDb
Season 1 (1955-56): 39 b&w episodes & featurette "Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Look Back" Universal color/b&w DVD [10/2005] 3 disks for $28.99 Season 2 (1956-57): 39 b&w episodes Universal b&w DVD [10/2006] 5 disks for $29.99 Season 3 (1957-58): 39 b&w episodes Universal b&w DVD [10/2007] 5 disks for $29.99 Season 4 (1958-59): 36 b&w episodes 
Universal b&w DVD [11/2009] 4 disks for $27.99 |
"The Wrong Man" [1956 noir] with Henry Fonda
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956]
"Vertigo" [1958]
http://www.amazon.com/Vertigo-Hitchcock-Classic-Dan-Auiler/dp/0312169159/
http://www.amazon.com/Vertigo-Film-Classics-Charles-Barr/dp/0851709184/
"North By Northwest" [1959] starring Cary Grant
North by Northwest: 50th Anniversary Edition - DVD & Blu-ray
"Psycho" [1960]
"To me 'Psycho' was a big comedy. Had to be." — Alfred Hitchcock
listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005)
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Making-Stephen-Rebello/dp/0714530034/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcocks-Psycho-Casebooks-Criticism/dp/0195169204/
http://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Robert-Bloch/dp/088411077X/
"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" TV series [1962=1965]
"The Birds" [1963]
"Marnie" [1964]
"Torn Curtain" [1966]
"Topaz" [1969]
"Frenzy" [1972]
"Family Plot" [1976]
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV series [1985-1989]
color remakes of 76 original episodes from 1955-62;
series credits at IMDb
Other Works by Alfred Hitchcock
"Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators" book series [circa late 1960s-early 1970s]
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Selected-Writings-Interviews/dp/0520212223/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Interviews-Conversations-Filmmakers/dp/1578065623/
Directed the pilot episode of the radio series "Suspense" [1942-62]
an adaptation of his 1927 silent film "The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog"
Works About Alfred Hitchcock
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Selected-Writings-Interviews/dp/0520212223/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Revised-Helen-G-Scott/dp/0671604295/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcocks-Notebooks-Authorized-Illustrated-Hitchcock/dp/0380799456/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-At-Work-Bill-Krohn/dp/0714843334/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Midsize-Paul-Duncan/dp/3822815918/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Master-Suspense-Pop-up/dp/0689875959/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcocks-America-Jonathan-Freedman/dp/0195119061/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Centenary-Essays-Richard-Allen/dp/085170736X/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Philosophy-Popular-Culture/dp/0812696166/
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/0415973627/
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Genius-Alfred-Hitchcock/dp/030680932X/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Life-Darkness-Light/dp/0060988274/
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Alfred-Hitchcock-Motion-Pictures/dp/0385418132/
William Rothman's Hitchcock: the murderous gaze (LJ 6/1/82
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Reader-Marshall-Deutelbaum/dp/0813808928/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcocks-Motifs-Amsterdam-University-Press/dp/9053567720/
http://www.amazon.com/Framing-Hitchcock-Selected-Contemporary-Television/dp/0814330614/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Paula-Marantz-Cohen/dp/0813108500/
http://www.amazon.com/After-Hitchcock-Influence-Imitation-Intertextuality/dp/029271338X/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Romance-Lesley-Brill/dp/069100286X/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Story-New/dp/184576708X/
http://www.amazon.com/Eye-Hitchcock-Murray-Pomerance/dp/0813533953/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Murderous-Gaze-Harvard-Studies/dp/0674404114/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcocks-Romantic-Irony-Film-Culture/dp/0231135750/
http://www.amazon.com/Spellbound-Beauty-Alfred-Hitchcock-Leading/dp/0307351300/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Twentieth-Century-Cinema-John-Orr/dp/190476455X/
http://www.amazon.com/Alma-Hitchcock-Woman-Behind-Man/dp/0425190056/
http://www.amazon.com/Year-Hitchcock-Weeks-Master-Suspense/dp/081086388X/
"The Men Who Made The Movies: Alfred Hitchcock" [1973 TV]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069686/
Raymond Durgnat's Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (1974)
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"The Men Who Made The Movies: Interviews With Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, King Vidor, Raoul Walsh & William A. Wellman" [1975] by Richard Schickel Ivan R. Dee, Publr 9x6 pb [4/2001] for $19.95 Atheneum 10¼x7¼ hardcover [1975] out of print/used |
Hitchcock spoof "High Anxiety" [1977] with Mel Brooks and his stock company
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American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Awards 1979: Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980] Republic color VHS [2/98] out of stock/used show credits from IMDb |
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"The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock: A Memoir of His Last Collaborator and The Final Unproduced Screenplay The Short Night" [orig 1984, rev 1999] by screenwriter David Freeman Overlook Trade 8¾x6 pb [8/99] out of print/used |
 | "Art By Film Directors" [2004] by Karl French
includes chapters on Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, Sergei Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Alfred Hitchcock, Dennis Hopper, John Huston, Takeshi Kitano, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Alan Parker, Gordon Parks, Satyajit Ray, Martin Scorsese, Josef von Sternberg, Wim Wenders, and others Mitchell Beazley 11½x9½ hardcover [11/2004] for $30.40 |
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"Conversations With The Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age: At The American Film Institute" [2006] by George Stevens, Jr.
interviews with 32 major writers, directors & cinematographers, including Ingmar Bergman, writer Ray Bradbury, Richard Brooks, Frank Capra, William Clothier, Stanley Cortez, George Cukor, Federico Fellini, George Folsey, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, James Wong Howe, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Gene Kelly, Stanley Kramer, Fritz Lang, David Lean, Ernest Lehman, Mervyn LeRoy, Harold Lloyd, Rouben Mamoulian, Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, George Stevens, King Vidor, Hal Wallis, Raoul Walsh, Billy Wilder, Robert Wise, William Wyler & Fred Zinnemann Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $23.10 |
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"Casting A Shadow: Creating The Alfred Hitchcock Film" [2007] Edited by Will Schmenner & Corinne Granof Northwestern Univ Press 10x9½ pb [10/2007] for $25.04 |
 | "Double Take" [festival circuit 2009, Kino Intl. June 2010] Footage of Hitchcock in 1962 and in 1980 meet, with comparisons to the paranoia of the Cold War Era, as embodied by Nixon, Khrushchev & Kennedy Co-written & directed by Johan Grimonprez; co-written by Tom McCarthy; featuring Ron Burrage & Mark Perry DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb official movie site |
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