Alfred Hitchcock

Mini-Biography:
Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899 in London. He was an English Director, Author, Producer, known for Number Seventeen (1932), Trouble with Harry (1955), Sabotage (1936), Alfred Hitchcock's first movie on record is from 1920. Alfred Hitchcock died on April 29, 1980 in Bel Air, CA, USA. His last motion picture on file dates from 2014.
Biographical Notes in German: Englischer Regisseur, Meister des klassischen Kriminalfilms

Â«In einer Ã¼ber sechs Jahrzehnte dauernden Laufbahn drehte Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (*13. August 1899, â€ 29. April 1980) Ã¼ber 50 Filme. Nicht alle davon waren Meisterwerke - aber fast alle. Das liegt daran, dass der Meister des Suspense sich von Beginn seiner Karriere an auch als versierter Filmtechniker und nimmermÃ¼der Experimentator etabliert hatte. Stets suchte er nach MÃ¶glichkeiten, um die ohnehin steigenden Erwartungen des Publikums an "den neuen Hitchcock" zu Ã¼bertreffen. Im Ergebnis vermochte er die Zuschauer nach Belieben zu Ã¤ngstigen oder zum Lachen zu bringen, etwa in dem morbiden Krimi-Kammerspiel "Cocktail fÃ¼r eine Leiche" von 1948. Hitchcock perfektionierte hier die Kunst des "unsichtbaren Schnitts". Der Film Ã¼ber zwei Studenten, die einen perfekten Mord planen, wirkt wie in einer einzigen Einstellung gedreht. Im britischsten seiner amerikanischen Filme setzte Sir Alfred auf Humor statt formale Exper imente: "Immer Ã„rger mit Harry" ist eine perfekt inszenierte schwarze KomÃ¶die Ã¼ber die wohl lÃ¤stigste Leiche der Kinogeschichte. Nach dem Erfolg des Agententhrillers "Der unsichtbare Dritte" - in dem Cary Grant auf unvergessliche Weise von einem Flugzeug gejagt wird - drohte die Langeweile des immer Gleichen, zumal Hitchcocks Stil viel kopiert wurde. Der Filmemacher erfand sich einmal mehr neu: Basierend auf Robert Blochs Roman Ã¼ber den FrauenmÃ¶rder Ed Gein, realisierte er einen vergleichsweise billigen SchwarzweiÃŸfilm mit geschickten Anleihen bei jenen B-Movies, die im Kino gerade so beliebt waren. Obwohl in "Psycho" nur wenig Blut zu sehen ist, schufen Hitchcock und der Titeldesigner Saul Bass ein neues Paradigma der Darstellung von Gewalt: Mit dem schockierenden Mord unter der Dusche, eine der meistkommentierten Szenen der Filmgeschichte, verschwindet der Star Janet Leigh Ã¼berraschenderweise schon nach 45 Minuten aus dem Film. "Psycho" war stilprÃ¤gend fÃ¼r das Genre des Psychothrillers und markierte den Zenit in Hitchcocks Schaffen. Mit "Marnie", dem artifiziellen Psychogramm einer traumatisierten Frau, erzielte er 1964 einen Achtungserfolg. Auf den doppelbÃ¶digen Agententhriller "Topas" reagierten Publikum und Kritik eher zurÃ¼ckhaltend - heute gilt auch dieser Film als Klassiker. In den 70er Jahren endete eine unvergleichlich lange Kreativphase, wÃ¤hrend der Hitchcock stets die volle Kontrolle Ã¼ber seine Projekte wahrte und oft als sein eigenes Markenzeichen im Film auftrat. Mit gebÃ¼hrendem Erfolg, steht sein Name doch allein auf weiter Flur in der Filmgeschichte.Â» (3Sat Presse)

Alfred Hitchcock Filmography
2014: [09.19] Night Will Fall (Cast: Alfred Hitchcock (archive footage)), Directed by Andre Singer, with ,
1984: [/ /1] Terror in the Aisles (Cast: Alfred Hichcock), Directed by Andrew J. Kuehn, with Nancy Alien, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson,
1975: [/ /1] Family Plot (Director), with Karen Black, Bruce Dern, William Devane,
1972: [/ /1] Frenzy (Director), with Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt,
1969: [] Topaz (Director), with Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Karin Dor,
1966: [/ /1] Torn curtain (Director), with Julie Andrews, Ludwig Donath, HansjÃ¶rg Felmy,
1964: [] Marnie (Director), with Diane Baker, Sean Connery, Bruce Dern,
1963: [] The Birds (The Birds - and its Trailer) (Director), with Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette,
1962: [] (Director), with John Forsythe,
1961: [05.16] (Cast: Alfred Hitchcock - Host), Directed by Alan Crosland jr., with Susan Harrison, Hank Brandt,
1960: [] Psycho (Director), with Martin Balsam, John Gavin, Janet Leigh,
1959: [] North by northwest (Director), with Cary Grant, Eva Maria Saint, James Mason,
1958: [04.28] Vertigo (Director), with James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes,
1956: [] The Man who knew too much (Director), with Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Walter Gotell,
1956: [/ /1] The wrong man (Director), with Laurinda Barrett, Kippy Campbell, Norma Connolly,
1956: [05.10] The Night of January Sixteenth (Cast: Lux Video Theatre Intermission Guest), Directed by Fred Carney, with Phyllis Thaxter, Richard Shannon, Addison Richards,
1955: [09.27] Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry) (Director), with Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine,
1955: [] To catch a thief (Director), with Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Georgette Anys,
1954: [] Dial M for Murder (Director), with Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, Grace Kelly,
1954: [] The Rear Window (Director), with Ross Bagdasarian, Sara Berner, Raymond Burr,
1953: [////1] I confess (Director), with Brian Aherne, Anne Baxter, Montgomery Clift,
1951: [] Strangers on a train (Director), with Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker,
1950: [] Stage Fright (Director), with Marlene Dietrich, Patricia Hitchcock, Miles Malleson,
1949: [10.08] Under Capricorn (Director), with Joseph Cotton, Ingrid Bergman, Michael Wilding,
1948: [/ /1] Rope (The Rope (Working title)) (Director), with James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger,
1947: [12.31] The Paradine Case (Director), with Gregory Peck, , Charles Laughton,
1946: [09.06] Notorious (Director), with Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Claude Rains,
1945: [12.28] Spellbound (Director), with Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov,
1944: [/ /1] Bon Voyage (Director), with John Blythe, MoliÃ¨re Players,
1944: [/ /1] Aventure Malgache (Director),
1944: [] Lifeboat (Director), with Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak,
1943: [] Shadow of a doubt (Director), with Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey,
1942: [] Saboteur (Director), with Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto KrÃ¼ger,
1941: [] Suspicion (Director), with Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Heather Angel,
1941: [01.31] Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Director), with Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond,
1940: [] Rebecca (Director), with Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce,
1940: [] Foreign correspondent (Director), with Joel McRea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall,
1939: [] Jamaica Inn (Director), with Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, ,
1937: [/ /1] Young and Innocent (A Girl was young) (Director), with Derrick de Marney, Nova Pilbeam, Percy Mamont,
1937: [] The Lady vanishes (Director), with Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukacs,
1936: [/ /1] Sabotage (A Woman alone) (Director), with Joyce Barbour, Oskar Homolka, John Loder,
1936: [] Secret agent (Director), with Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, Lilli Palmer,
1935: [06.00] The 39 steps (The thirty-nine steps) (Director), with Peggy Ashcroft, Madeleine Carroll, Frank Cellier,
1934: [] The Man who knew too much (Director), with Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre, Edna Best,
1933: [] Waltzes from Vienna (Strauss' Great Waltz) (Director), with Jessie Matthews, , ,
1932: [/ /1] Number Seventeen (Number 17) (Director), with , Anne Grey, John Stuart,
1932: [/ /1] Lord Camber's Ladies (Producer), Directed by Benn W. Levy, with Gerald du Maurier, Benita Hume, Nigel Bruce,
1931: [12.10] Rich and strange (East of Shanghai) (Director), with Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont,
1931: [] The Skin Game (Director), with George Bancroft, Jill Edmond, C.V. France,
1930: [03.03] Mary (Director), with Alfred Abel, Olga Tschechowa, Paul Graetz,
1930: [07.31] Murder! (Director), with Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam,
1930: [/ /1] Juno and the Paycock (Director), with Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Maire O'Neill,
1929: [] Blackmail (Director), with Hannah Jones, , ,
1929: [] The Manxman (Director), with Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, Anny Ondra,
1929: [] Elstree calling (Director), Directed by Adrian Brunel, with Cicely Courtneidge, Jack Hulbert, Anna May Wong,
1928: [08.20] Champagne (Director), with Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin, Ferdinand von Alten,
1928: [] The Farmer's Wife (Director), with Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davies, Gordon Harker,
1927: [] Easy Virtue (Director), with Isabel Jeans, , Bransby Williams,
1927: [] Downhill (When Boys leave home) (Director), with Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Robin Irvine,
1927: [] The Ring (Director), with Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davies, Ian Hunter,
1927: [02.14] The lodger - A story of the London Fog (Director), with Ivor Novello, , Marie Ault,
1926: [] The mountain eagle (Fear O'God) (Director), with Bernhard Goetzke, John Hamilton, Malcolm Keen,
1925: [01.08] The Pleasure Garden (Director), with Louis Brody, C Falkenburg, Carmelita Geraghty,
1925: [/ /1] The Blackguard (Assistant Director), Directed by Graham Cutts, with Walter Rilla, Bernhard Goetzke, Jane Novak,
1925: [] Die Prinzessin und der Geiger (Scenario), with Rosa Valetti,
1924: [/ /1] The passionate adventure (Assistant Director), Directed by Graham Cutts, with Alice Joyce, Clive Brook, Lillian Hall-Davies,
1924: [] The Prude's Fall (Dangerous Virtue) (Assistant Director), Directed by Graham Cutts, with Jane Novak, Julanne Johnston, Warwick Ward,
1923: [] The white shadow (Assistant Director), Directed by Graham Cutts, with Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Henry Victor,
1922: [/ /1] Woman to Woman (Scenario), Directed by Graham Cutts, with Betty Compson, Clive Brook,
1922: [] Number Thirteen (Director), with Claire Greet, ,
1922: [01.01] Three Live Ghosts (Art Director), Directed by George Fitzmaurice, Edmund Goulding, with Norman Kerry, Anna Q. Nilsson, Edmund Goulding,
1921: [] Always tell your wife (Assistant Director), Directed by Hugh Croise, with Seymour Hicks, , Gertrude McCoy,
1920: [11.00] (Art Department: title designer), Directed by Hugh Ford, with Arthur Bourchier, Mary Palfrey, Marjorie Hume,