Alfred
Hitchcock Biography
Alfred
Hitchcock was born in London, UK on August 13 1899. Following education and St.
Ignatius and The University Of London he went into Engineering. In 1920
Hitchcock left for Hollywood. His first academy award would come on the back of
film ‘Rebecca’ for best picture and would be the start of a long, established
career in film making. Hitchcock would go on to make over 50 films including
classics such as ‘The 39 Steps’, ‘Psycho’, and ‘The Birds’. Nicknamed the
‘Master Of Suspense’ Hitchcock won the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 1970
just a year before his death in 1980.
Hitchcock
was raised by strict Catholic Parents and described his childhood as sheltered
and lonely. This could however be partly due to his obesity as a child. The
punishments taken by his estranged father involved being asked to go to the
local police station and ask to be locked away for 10 minutes for behaving
badly. His mother would also force him to stand at the end of his bed for
several hours. The idea of being wrongly accused of things and being punished
is reflected in his films such as ‘Psycho’.
Hitchcock
also made cameos in all of his films and it was this that aided him becoming a
cultural icon. He is also deemed to have made the first British ‘talkie’ in ‘Blackmail’
which again links to his troubled childhood.
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