Alfred Hitchcock

FilmPioneers

The Master of Suspense

Facts

Born: 1899
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Film
Era: Pioneers

Overview

Director of more than fifty feature films who defined the suspense genre. Rear Window 1954, Vertigo 1958, North by Northwest 1959, and Psycho 1960 are pillars of cinema history. He received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award in 1968 and was knighted in 1980. Vertigo topped the British Film Institute poll of greatest films in 2012, ending the fifty year reign of Citizen Kane.

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