Which character does Cary Grant play in North by Northwest?

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Master of suspense — Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's talent as both filmmaker and storyteller is abundantly evident in a film catalog that includes *Dial M for Murder*, *Vertigo*, *Psycho*, and *The Birds*.

In the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest, Cary Grant plays the character Roger O. Thornhill.1

Thornhill is a successful advertising executive who becomes embroiled in a dangerous case of mistaken identity after he is confused for a fictional government agent named George Kaplan.1