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Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock. Asya Zadorina Ph-51. Outline. Childhood and youth Pre-war British career Hollywood Peak years and decline Famous films Television and books References. Childhood and youth. Birth name: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock Born: August 13,1899, Leytonstone, London, England

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Alfred Hitchcock

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  1. Alfred Hitchcock Asya Zadorina Ph-51

  2. Outline • Childhood and youth • Pre-war British career • Hollywood • Peak years and decline • Famous films • Television and books • References

  3. Childhood and youth • Birth name: Alfred Joseph Hitchcock • Born: August 13,1899, Leytonstone, London, England • Family: William Hitchcock (1862-1914), Emma Jane Hitchcock (1863-1942) • Education: • St Ignatius College, London • School for Engineering and Navigation (14 years old)

  4. Pre-war British career • 1920 - fulltime job at Islington Studios: designing the titles for silent movies • 1926 - the first film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog • December 2,1926- marriage with his assistant director Alma Reville

  5. Hollywood • 1940-He made his first American movie Rebecca.It won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940 • Second American film - the European-set thriller Foreign Correspondent • 1941-Suspicion marked Hitchcock's first film as a producer as well as director • 1942-Saboteur was the first of two films that Hitchcock made for Universal(a studio where he would work in his later years)

  6. Peak years and decline • 1951 -Strangers on a Train, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith • Vertigo(1958),North by Northwest(1959), Psycho(1960), and The Birds(1963) • 1976 -Family Plotwas his last film • He was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in the 1980 New Year's Honours • April 29,1980 -died from renal failure in his Bel-Air, Los Angeles home, aged 80

  7. Famous films • 1929 - Blackmail • 1934 - The Man Who Knew Too Much • 1935 - The 39 Steps • 1937 - The Lady Vanishes • 1948 - Rope • 1958 - Vertigo • 1959 - North by Northwest • 1960 - Psycho • 1962 - The Birds • 1976 - Family Plot

  8. Television and books • 1955-1965-producer of a long-running television series entitled Alfred Hitchcock Presents • 1980s-a new version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents(in a colorised form) • character in the popular juvenile detective series Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators • Short stories-Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum, Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery

  9. References • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock • http://hitch.narod.ru/ • http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/producer/hitchcok/ • http://www.hitchcock.ru/

  10. Alfred Hitchcock Asya Zadorina Ph-51

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