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Alfred Hitchcock

Master of Suspense

Alfred Hitchcock was born on 13 August 1899 above his parents' greengrocer's shop in Leytonstone, then part of Essex.[1] Hitchcock was knighted in December 1979 and died on 29 April 1980.[2] Alfred Hitchcock directed the thriller The 39 Steps (1935) and the film Psycho (1960), for which he received an Academy Award nomination.[3][4]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Born
13 August 1899
Birthplace
Leytonstone, Essex, England
Died
29 April 1980
Place of death
Los Angeles, California, US
Citizenship
US (from 1955) (UK)
Occupation
Film director, producer
Years active
1919–1980

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

He married English screenwriter Alma Reville on 2 December 1926 at the Brompton Oratory in South Kensington.[5] Before his film career, Alfred Hitchcock worked as a technical clerk and later as a copywriter; in 1919 he began designing title cards for the film industry.[3] The first film Hitchcock directed was the silent picture The Pleasure Garden, released in 1926.[3] Alma Reville was Hitchcock's most important creative partner, contributing as writer or co-writer to numerous films he directed, including Shadow of a Doubt, Suspicion, and The 39 Steps.[6][7]

Producer David O. Selznick convinced Hitchcock to relocate to Hollywood in 1939.[4] Sidney Bernstein, who worked for the Ministry of Information, produced the film and had it put together in London.[8][9] In 1971, the BAFTA Fellowship was awarded to Hitchcock, and in 1979 he received the AFI Life Achievement Award.[2]

What the cited sources add

The Guardian article by Jeffries states that in 1945, overseen by Alfred Hitchcock, a crack team of British film-makers went to Germany to document the horror of the concentration camps.[8] The British Film Institute account describes Blackmail (1929) as a critical and commercial triumph that confirmed Hitchcock as the most admired British director of the time.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Alfred Hitchcock" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Joseph (1899–1980), film director" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Alfred Hitchcock" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: McCarthy, "Alfred Hitchcock Dies Of Natural Causes at Bel-Air Home", 30 April 1980 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Alfred Hitchcock" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Blackmail (1929)", British Film Institute (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Alfred Hitchcock" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The 13th Academy Awards, 1941", Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; "AFI's 100 Greatest American Films of All Time", American Film Institute (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Alfred Hitchcock" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Spoto 1999, p. 23–24; McGilligan 2003, p. 30; Hitchcock O'Connell Bouzereau 2003, p. 15; ; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Alfred Hitchcock" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Champlin, "Alma Reville Hitchcock, The Unsung Partner", Los Angeles Times, 29 July 1982 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Alfred Hitchcock" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Alfred Hitchcock Accepts the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979", YouTube, 16 April 2009; "Reville [married name Hitchcock], Alma Lucy", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Jeffries, "The Holocaust film that was too shocking to show", The Guardian, 9 January 2015. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  9. Wikipedia, "Alfred Hitchcock" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; Jeffries, "The Holocaust film that was too shocking to show", The Guardian, 9 January 2015; "Memory of the Camps: Frequently Asked Questions", PBS (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. "Blackmail (1929)", British Film Institute. facts only, no text reused. bfi.org.uk

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Alfred Hitchcock (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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