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Facts

Also Known As Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Born August 13, 1899 • London • England
Died April 29, 1980 (aged 80) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1968) • Academy Award (1968)
Notable Works “Blackmail” • “Dial M for Murder” • “Foreign Correspondent” • “I Confess” • “Lifeboat” • “Marnie” • “Murder!” • “North by Northwest” • “Psycho” • “Rear Window” • “Rope” • “Sabotage” • “Saboteur” • “Secret Agent” • “Shadow of a Doubt” • “Spellbound” • “Stage Fright” • “Strangers on a Train” • “The 39 Steps” • “The Birds” • “The Lady Vanishes” • “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog” • “The Man Who Knew Too Much” • “The Paradine Case” • “The Trouble with Harry” • “The Wrong Man” • “To Catch a Thief” • “Torn Curtain” • “Under Capricorn” • “Vertigo” • “Young and Innocent”

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Black-and-white portrait of Alfred Hitchcock, seated and wearing a dark suit and striped tie, facing slightly to the side with hands folded in his lap.
Leslie Banks, Nova Pilbeam, and Peter Lorre in a scene from the 1934 film The Man Who Knew Too Much, standing and sitting around a record player in a room with bookshelves.
The Lady Vanishes
Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier stand close together, looking concerned, in a black-and-white scene from the film Rebecca (1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Lifeboat
Ingrid Bergman, wearing a lab coat, stands between Norman Lloyd, seated, and Gregory Peck, standing at right, in a scene from the film Spellbound directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Farley Granger as Guy Haines and Robert Walker as Bruno Anthony sit across from each other at a dining table on a train in a scene from Strangers on a Train (1951).
Dial M for Murder
James Stewart, seated and holding binoculars, and Grace Kelly, standing in a black dress and pearls, in a scene from Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Vertigo
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