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  Alfred Hitchcock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hitchcock was among the most consistently successful and publicly recognizable directors in the world during his lifetime, and remains one of the best known and most popular directors of all time, famous for his expert and largely unrivaled control of pace and suspense throughout his movies.
Hitchcock was one of the first directors to whom they applied their auteur theory, which stresses the artistic authority of the director in the film-making process.
Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899, in Leytonstone, London, the second son and youngest of the three children of William Hitchcock, a greengrocer, and his wife, Emma Jane Hitchcock (née Whelan).
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 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Alfred Hitchcock
The Hitchcocks were moralists strict even beyond the requirements of their faith, and many of the traumatic disciplines heaped on Hitchcock as a boy later found their way into his films.
Hitchcock may have been the first director to enjoy the name identification usually reserved for top stars: Audiences knew the Hitchcock name on a marquee meant they were in for a film of excellence, and he was quickly synonymous with mystery, thrills, intrigue- and often an unsettling psychological undercurrent.
Hitchcock hit his stride as he entered the 1950s, and free of his contractual obligations to Selznik was directing and producing his own projects.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Hitchcock, Sir Alfred   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hitchcock began his career as a director in 1925 and became prominent with The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938).
Hitchcock's style is so distinctive that any filmmaker working in the suspense genre invariably risks comparison to him.
Hitchcock had two successful television series (1955-62 and 1963-65) and was one of the best known directors of his time, often appearing in humorous cameo appearances in his own films.
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 Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Anecdotes and Quotations - The Gold Scales
SIR ALFRED Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899 in Leytonstone, England, and died in April 1980 in Los Angeles.
ALFRED Hitchcock had a habit of falling asleep at parties.
Sir Alfred thought: "The inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm."
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 Biography - Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire (13 August 1899 29 April, 1980) was a United Kingdom film film director closely associated with the suspense genre.
Although Hitchcock was an enormous superstar during his lifetime, he did not rank highly with film critics of his own day.
Hitchcock was one of the first directors to which they applied their auteur theory, which stresses the centrality of the director in the movie-making process.
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 Alfred Hitchcock @ Filmbug
Hitchcock's films frequently portray innocent people caught up in circumstances beyond their control or even understanding; a common theme of his movies is that these characters are guilty, but only of minor, unrelated failings.
Hitchcock described the "MacGuffin" as a red herring: a meaningless, unimportant detail that solely existed to serve as a reason for the story to exist.
Hitchcock was in his mid-20's, and a professional film director, before he'd ever drunk alcohol or been on a date.
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 HITCHCOCK ALFRED - Alfred Hitchcock Online Resource
Hitchcock was born August 13, 1899, the third and youngest son of Emma and William, a London poultry dealer and fruit importer.
Where that series, first called "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and later titled "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," left off, a show by the same name picked up again on NBC, running into 1965 with the same format of half-hour mystery and melodramas.
When he died in 1980 at 80 years old, Hitchcock was remembered with a Mass in Beverly Hills; Leigh, Hedren, Karl Malden of "I Confess" and Jane Wyman of "Stage Fright" (1950) were in attendance.
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 Alfred Hitchcock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Joseph (1899-1980), British-born American director and producer of many brilliantly contrived films, most of them psychological thrillers.
As a director, Hitchcock was praised for his witty urbanity, his impeccable but highly idiosyncratic cinematic technique, and his penchant for the macabre and the suspenseful.
His much-imitated technique consisted, in part, of the use of carefully preplanned and masterfully composed and edited sequences that employed an alternating montage of subjective point-of-view shots and objective bird's-eye shots to heighten contrast and tension, thus precisely manipulating the viewer.
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 Alfred Hitchcock - Master of Pure Cinema
Alfred Hitchcock, The Master of Suspense - Välkommen till min hyllningssida till minne av Alfred Hitchcock och hans filmer...
Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense - Patrik Wikstrom's Hitchcock site is a very thorough and informative look at the Master's movie and TV work, including a monthly quiz and an interesting list of research questions.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Celebrating the Centenary of Britain's Greatest Filmmaker - This exhibition was on display at the Bill Douglas Centre between April and November 1999, to mark the centenary of Hitchcock's birth.
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 Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred, 1899–1980, English-American film director, writer, and producer, b.
Hitchcock began his career as a director in 1925 and became prominent with
Sir Alfred Hitchcock - Sir Alfred Hitchcock director Born: 8/13/1899 Birthplace: London, England British director famous...
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 Alfred Hitchcock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April, 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the suspense genre.
At 14, Hitchcock lost his father and left St Ignatius' College, his school at the time, to study at the School for Engineering and Navigation.
Hitchcock heroines tend to be lovely, cool blondes who seem at first to be proper but, when aroused by passion or danger, respond in a more sensual, animal, perhaps criminal way.
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 Tribute to Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock" will also welcome Patricia Hitchcock, daughter of the late filmmaker, who will be accepting an award on behalf of her father.
Hitchcock's success in America continued with Notorious, To Catch A Thief (with the quintessential Hitchcockian heroine Grace Kelly), North by Northwest and Vertigo (re-released in 1996).
Hitchcock called on John Forsythe, the lead in his fl comedy The Trouble With Harry, to star in Topaz, a story of Cold War espionage.
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 The Films of Sir Alfred Hitchcock quiz -- free game
Born in London in 1899, Hitchcock began as a junior film technician before moving on to motion picture direction in 1925.
One of Hitchcock's first films to put him into the spotlight was 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'.
Another of Hitchcock's classics was 'The Birds', where birds unaccountably make attacks on a coastal town.
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 screenonline: Hitchcock, Sir Alfred (1899-1980) Biography
was now the executive producer at this ambitious company, and he gave Hitchcock his choice of film projects, the freedom to develop his films without interference and his choice of collaborators.
The story is centred on a man wrongly accused of being a sadistic serial killer of women, and it was filmed with a largely British cast and in a London setting that benefits from extensive location shooting around the old Covent Garden market.
was not Hitchcock's last film, but it can be seen as a revisiting of his career's dramatic beginnings in Britain and as a homecoming for a director who found his greatest success and celebrity abroad.
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 Alfred Hitchcock Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Hitchcock Cenntenial 1999 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of Sir Alfred Hitchcock's birth.
Hitchcock in Cameo See big list of when and where Hitchcock makes his appearances in his films.
Alfred Hitchcock the Master of Suspense According to Magellan "If you're interested in the suspense meister this lovingly assembled spot should be your first stop on the web"
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 Geometry.Net - Celebrities: Hitchcock Alfred
Alfred Hitchcock was a man with a vast legacy.
Alfred Hitchcock Biography Alfred Hitchcock was not always seen as the brilliant filmmaker motion picture fans and the movie industry views him
Alfred Hitchcock told stories using a mixture of intelligent plots, witty dialogue and a spoonful of mystery and murder.
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 Sir Alfred Hitchcock and The 39 Steps
W. Rayment / -- Classics are classic for a reason.
Hitchcock is often called the master of suspense.
Indeed, it is a must see for any Hitchcock fan, a good study for any student of film and most of all a fun ride for the suspense thriller buff who likes a bit of comedy mixed in with his (or her) bitten fingernails.
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 Alfred Hitchcock - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Alfred Hitchcock - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Joseph (1899-1980), British-born American motion-picture director and producer, noted for his technically innovative and...
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 Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), Film director
London born film director; directed the first British talking film, Blackmail (1929), but worked in Hollywood from 1939 where he became known as the 'master of suspense'.
Constantly exploiting technical innovations and prolifically inventive, Hitchcock's films vary widely from romantic drama and comedy thriller to the horror classic, Psycho (1960).
The psychological manupulation of his audence was much admired by the French directors of the nouvelle vague.
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 Alfred Hitchcock Scholars Meet Here! The 'MacGuffin' Web Page
The site is an extension of our (these days irregularly-published) Alfred Hitchcock journal called 'The MacGuffin', which is indexed by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in Brussels, and by 'Film Literature Index', New York.
In turn, the Truffaut book is well complemented by 'Hitchcock on Hitchcock' (1995), edited by Sidney Gottlieb, and by Bill Krohn's award-winning 'Hitchcock at Work' (2000).
A near-complete bibliography of all scholarly writing on Hitchcock up to the early 1990s will be found in Jane Sloan's massive 'Alfred Hitchcock: a filmography and bibliography' (1995, pb).
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 hitchcock_intro.html
1999 marked the one-hundredth anniversary of Sir Alfred Hitchcock's birth, and important events like the Hitchcock Centennial celebration held in Hollywood by the
Although the events have passed, these pages will continue to provide useful and unique information on Hitchcock and his work.
Important secondary works to understand Hitchcock and his films.
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 Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
My favorite Hitchcock film would have to be North By Northwest.
He puts all of that in his movies I think in one way or another.
Hitchcock was a master...His camera angles, In Rope it was wonderful to watch.
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 Alfred Hitchcock (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Alfred Hitchcock was the son of East End greengrocer William Hitchcock...
The American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock (1979) (TV)....
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock (1973) (TV)....
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 Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Joseph - Related Items - MSN Encarta
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Joseph - Related Items - MSN Encarta
, motion picture about a compulsive thief named Marnie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Released in 1964, the film stars Tippi Hedren as Marnie, a...
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 Alfred Hitchcock
This month (August 1999) there is only one candidate for star of the month: Alfred Hitchcock.
He was born one hundred years ago this month (on the 13th).
Young and Innocent are overshadowed by films with more star power, but are rewarding both in themselves and as examples of his little obsessions.
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 Hitchcock, Sir Alfred - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK or LOGIN
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred, 1899-1980, English-American film director, writer, and producer, b.
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