Director Research- Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock was born on the 13 August 1899. He was born in Essex and had a very lonely childhood. One memorable event of his childhood was that he was sent to prison at the age of    by his father. Going to prison has said to have undoubtedly contributed to Alfred’s fear of police. This is most likely one of the reasons that within many of his films, characters where wrongly accused of crimes and imprisoned. His first piece was "Gas" (1919), published in the first issue, in which a young woman imagines that she is being assaulted one night in Paris – only for the twist to reveal that it was all just a hallucination in the dentist's chair, induced by the anaesthetic. Alfred Hitchcock is an English movie director. He is most commonly known his thriller films such as Psycho and North by North-West. Alfred Hitchcock is regarded as the “Master of Suspense.” This is due to all of his films containing very gripping and suspenseful scenes that perfectly fit the thriller genre. Alfred Hitchcock was the pioneer of many of the codes and conventions that define thriller films. Alfred Hitchcock is also known for having various red herrings and plot twists within the movies that he directs. Alfred Hitchcock had directed over 50 feature length films in just over 60 years. Alfred Hitchcock is also well known due to his cameo appearances in his own movies and TV shows.    Alfred Hitchcock has been called “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. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else.” He has also been described as being “the most influential filmmaker of all time.”