Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer from Leytonstone, Essex. Hitchcock is one of the most key elemental people looked at in film. Born 13 August 1899 and died 29 April 1980, Hitchcock was known as 'The Master Of Suspense', he pioneered many techniques in suspense and psychological thriller genres of movie. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films during his career, most with a twist ending, which was more like a 'trademark' of Hitchcock as he liked to always produce something different and exciting for his audience. Hitchcock was seen as 'one of the best movie producer and directors of all time' quoted by the Daily Mail, with exceptionally brilliant films such as Psycho in 1960, The Birds and North by Northwest. Hitchcock was always described as struggling with his weight, which is a reason for why he was rejected from military service in the first world war, he also had a fear or dislike towards policeman, where in his films he sometimes likes to portray policeman as wrongly accusing the wrong people or using harsh treatment, his fear was brought on when he was sent to be 'taught a lesson' by his father by being locked behind the cell bars for 5 minutes for behaving badly and to treat him a lesson.

Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939, and became a U.S citizen in 1955,  when working in Hollywood he was working along a producer by the name of Selznick (during 1940s) who he described as very hard to work with, however being in America and a well known American country this is where Hitchcock really was known and became more popular with the American audience, and producing films from romantic comedy to courtroom drama.