Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer who was known as the master of suspense.He was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England on August 13th 1899 and died in Bel Air California on the 29 April 1980 at the age of 80.

He was married to Alma Reville and had one child named Patricia Hitchcock.He began his career by working as a title card designer for famous players laskey.

After this he was by a new firm run by Michel Balcon called Gainsborough pictures where he worked on Woman to Woman, The White Shadow, The Passionate Adventure, The Blackguard, and The Prude's Fall.In this time he directed Number 13, The Pleasure Garden and The Mountain Eagle by himself.

His first work with sound was for a film called blackmail produced by BIP.This film started the tradition of Hitchcock using famous landmarks as backdrops.

He then went on to work with Balcon again for the film The man who knew too much.He then work on The 39 steps which introduced the term macguffin.

His next major success was The lady vanishes which the gardian called one of the greatest train movies from the genres golden era.Hitchcock then started to work in hollywood when David O Seiznick signed him to a seven year contract.

The last project that he worked on before he died was The Short Night where he collaborated with James Costigan, Ernest Lehman and David Freeman initially the screenplay was never released due to Hickcocks rapidly decaying health however it was published in the 1999 book The Last Days Of Alfred Hickcock.

He was most know for his work on:
Notorious Notorious Trailler

Rear Window Rear Window

Vertigo was a psychological thriller based off of the 1954 novel D'entre Les Morts vertigo trailer
Films such as Vertigo are considered to be connected to the auteur theory as Hitchcock himself is an auteur in the sense that he over saw the audio and visual elements of the film so that he is considered an author of the film rather than a writer of the screenplay.You can tell that vertigo is a Hitchcock film as it included suspence as can be scene from the screen shot next to this and this clip vertigo suspence scene.
You can also tell it is a Hitchcock film as James Stewart appears in this and has appeared in a lot of other Hitchcock films (as Hitchcock likes to work with the same people) like Rope, Rear Window and The Man Who Knew Too Much.
North by Northwest.North By Northwest trailer

Psycho is arguably Hitchcocks greatest work. Psycho Shower Scene