Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in 1899 in Leytonstone, England, and became
a filmmaker whose career began in the silent era. Hitchcock entered the film
industry as a title designer in 1919 and made his directorial debut with The
Pleasure Garden in 1926, gaining early recognition for his work on The Lodger: A
Story of the London Fog (1927). Over the next decades he made numerous acclaimed
films, including Rebecca (1940), The 39 Steps (1935), Vertigo (1958) and Psycho
(1960), with suspense a hallmark of his work and Vertigo featuring the
innovative dolly zoom camera technique...
