Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Hitchcock was born on the August 13 1899 and sadly passed away on April 29th 1980. Hitchcock was an English film director and producer. Hitchcock had a very successful career in Britich cinema in silent films as well as talkies and was said to be England's best director. However he then moved to Hollywood in 1939 and then became and U.S citizen in 1955. 

Hitchcock was raised as a catholic child and was then educated in the same way. He was said to have quite a lonely childhood and was usually isolated due to being obese. Hitchcock had a very strict father who always punished Alfred for his bad behaviour. One way in which he did this was by making him sit in a prison cell for the night. However his father unfortunately died when Hitchcock was only 15.

Hitchcock started off by submitting short articles to a newspaper. It was then when he became interested in photography and film production, which he then started working for a company which later became Paramount Pictures. In 1920 he then got a full time job in islington studios creating titles for silent movies.

Alfred Hitchcock had ended up directing more than fifty feature films during his career which was over six decades. Hitchcock had come first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph. What they said was "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands...". Many people would agree and many people have said that Hitchcock was the most influetial filmmaker of all time and is widel regarded as one of cinema's most significant artists.

Psycho is one of Hitchcock's most well known films, which was a low budget black and white thriller. The film was well loved by the public and managed to brake box office records in several countries. Psycho ended up being the most profitable film throughout his career and will always be remembered for the well known shower scene.