Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a British-American film director closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. He began directing in Britain before working in the United States from 1939 onwards. With more than fifty feature films to his credit, in a career spanning six decades, from silent film to talkies to the color era, Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular directors of all time, famous for his expert and often unrivaled control of pace and suspense throughout his movies.

Filmography

(all dates are for release)

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Silent films

• No. 13 (Unfinished, also known as Mrs. Peabody) (1922)
• Always Tell Your Wife (Uncredited) (1923)
• The Pleasure Garden (1927)
• The Mountain Eagle (1927)
• ' (1927)
• Downhill (1927)
• Easy Virtue (1927), based on a Noel Coward play
• The Ring (1927), an original story by Hitchcock.
• The Farmer's Wife (1928)
• Champagne (1928)
• The Manxman (1928)

Sound films

• Blackmail (1929), the first ever British talkie
• Juno and the Paycock (1930)
• Murder! (1930)
• Elstree Calling (1930), made jointly with Adrian Brunel, Andre Charlot, Jack Hulbert and Paul Murray
• The Skin Game (1931)
• Mary (1931)
• Number Seventeen (1932)
• Rich and Strange (1932)
• Waltzes from Vienna (1933)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Secret Agent (1936), loosely based on some Somerset Maugham stories
• Sabotage (1936), adapted from Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent
• Young and Innocent (1938)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• Jamaica Inn (1939), starring Charles Laughton
• Rebecca (1940), his only film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941), written by Norman Krasna
• Suspicion (1941)
• Saboteur (1942), often seen as a dry run for North by Northwest
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Lifeboat (1944), Tallulah Bankhead's most famous film role
• Aventure Malgache (1944), a French language short made for the British Ministry of Information
• Bon Voyage (1944), another French language propaganda short
• Spellbound (1945), includes dream sequences designed by Salvador Dali
• Notorious (1946)
• The Paradine Case (1947)
• Rope (1948)
• Under Capricorn (1949)
• Stage Fright (1950)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• I Confess (1953)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• Rear Window (1954)
• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• The Trouble with Harry (1955)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), remake of 1934 film
• The Wrong Man (1956)
• Vertigo (1958)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Birds (1963)
• Marnie (1964)
• Torn Curtain (1966)
• Topaz (1969)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Family Plot (1976)