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Feature films directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)

Excluded from this list:
- "Number 13 (1922)" - unfinished and unreleased, it's a lost film
- "Elstree Calling (1930)" - Hitchcock's contribution were the linking segments
- "Kaleidoscope (1967)" - cancelled, some footage can be seen in various documentaries.

TV directing works (not listed):
- "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (17 episodes)
- "Suspicion" (1 episode)
- "Startime" (1 episode)
- "Alcoa Premiere" (1 episode)
- "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1 episode)

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Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"

546 movies missing. Imported from external source.

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Collection of additional "must-see" Danny Perry's movies, presented in the back of his "Guide for the Film Fanatic"

546 movies missing. Imported from external source.

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All 4K releases in the US

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All my favorite movies.

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This collection includes Spy films, themes and government intelligence based titles.

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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and Eileen Hitchcock (born 1892). Raised as a strict Catholic and attending Saint Ignatius College, a school run by Jesuits, Hitch had very much of a regular upbringing. His first job outside of the family business was in 1915 as an estimator for the Henley Telegraph and Cable Company. His interest in movies began at around this time, frequently visiting the cinema and reading US trade journals.

Hitchcock entering the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer. It was there that he met Alma Reville, though they never really spoke to each other. It was only after the director for Always Tell Your Wife (1923) fell ill and Hitchcock was named director to complete the film that he and Reville began to collaborate. Hitchcock had his first real crack at directing a film, start to finish, in 1923 when he was hired to direct the film Number 13 (1922), though the production wasn't completed due to the studio's closure (he later remade it as a sound film). Hitchcock didn't give up then. He directed The Pleasure Garden (1925), a British/German production, which was very popular. Hitchcock made his first trademark film in 1927, The Lodger (1927) . In the same year, on the 2nd of December, Hitchcock married Alma Reville. They had one child, Patricia Hitchcock who was born on July 7th, 1928. His success followed when he made a number of films in Britain such as The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Jamaica Inn (1939), some of which also gained him fame in the USA.

In 1940, the Hitchcock family moved to Hollywood, where the producer David O. Selznick had hired him to direct an adaptation of 'Daphne du Maurier''s Rebecca (1940). After Saboteur (1942), as his fame as a director grew, film companies began to refer to his films as 'Alfred Hitchcock's', for example Alfred Hitcock's Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972).

Hitchcock was a master of pure cinema who almost never failed to reconcile aesthetics with the demands of the box-office.

During the making of Frenzy (1972), Hitchcock's wife Alma suffered a paralyzing stroke which made her unable to walk very well. On March 7, 1979, Hitchcock was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award, where he said: "I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen and their names are Alma Reville." By this time, he was ill with angina and his kidneys had already started to fail. He had started to write a screenplay with Ernest Lehman called The Short Night but he fired Lehman and hired young writer David Freeman to rewrite the script. Due to Hitchcock's failing health the film was never made, but Freeman published the script after Hitchcock's death. In late 1979, Hitchcock was knighted, making him Sir Alfred Hitchcock. On the 29th April 1980, 9:17AM, he died peacefully in his sleep due to renal failure. His funeral was held in the Church of Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills. Father Thomas Sullivan led the service with over 600 people attended the service, among them were Mel Brooks (director of High Anxiety (1977), a comedy tribute to Hitchcock and his films), Louis Jourdan, Karl Malden, Tippi Hedren, Janet Leigh and François Truffaut.

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Total Shows watched: 10

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2 Episodes): 1x02 - 1x03
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (100 Episodes): 4x07 - 4x23, 5x01 - 5x25, 6x01 - 6x24, 7x01 - 7x24, 8x01 - 8x10
The Closer (15 Episodes): 6x01 - 6x15
Covert Affairs (3 Episodes): 4x06 - 4x08
Eureka (2 Episodes): 2x01 - 2x02
Game of Thrones (1 Episode): 1x01
Schitt's Creek (1 Episode): 2x10
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2 Episodes): 1x01 - 1x02
Star Trek: Voyager (28 Episodes): 3x13 - 3x26, 4x01 - 4x14
Without a Trace (1 Episode): 6x06

Total Movies watched: 7

The Colony
Dancer in the Dark
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Minari
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Torn Curtain

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Alfred bring me my next movie.

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