Alfred Hitchcock - Famous Director

Sir Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer - often nicknamed 'The Master of Suspense', he pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. Often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph, which 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. 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 was born 13th August 1899, in Leytonstone, London.
• He died 29th April 1980 aged 80, in Bel Air, California, USA.
• He married Alma Reville in 1926 until he later died in 1980.
• He and his wife had one daughter named Patricia Hitchcock.
• He produced films such as Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo and North by Northwest.
• He also wrote a book called Hitchcock on Hitchcock.