Sir Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Hitchcock is one of the world's most renowned and most influential directors of all time. Commonly referred to as "The Master Of Suspense", Hitchcock repeatedly directed and produced consistently excellent thriller films that were above and beyond competing thriller films.

The origins of many modern thriller conventions, were established by Hitchcock, and now some elements in thriller films are known as 'Hitchcockian'.

Born in 1899, Leytonstone, England. Hitchcock started off as a writer, and submitted articles to multiple magazines. Later, he became more interested in photography which then lead to film production in London, He worked as a title card designer for a London branch would later become Paramount Pictures.

Hitchcock's directorial debut came in 1925 when he directed a feature length, silent film 'The Pleasure Garden' based on a novel by Oliver Sandys. Unfortunately though, the film was a commercial flop. He had greater success in 1927 with the release of his first thriller 'The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog'. This film was a major commercial success and lead Hitchcock to much bigger things.

Hitchcock in total directed 50 feature length films throughout his 60 year career and is now as quoted from a 2007 Daily Telegraph poll to which he came first, they said: "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him." 

Hitchcock's most famous pieces include Psycho, The Birds and North By Northwest.