Alfred Hitchcock

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film director film producer human screenwriter television host

Alfred Hitchcock was a pioneering British film director and producer, famed as the "Master of Suspense" for his influential psychological thrillers and innovative cinematic techniques.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film director → film producer → human → screenwriter → television host →
awardReceived	AFI Life Achievement Award → Academy Award for Best Picture for "Rebecca" (as director of winning film) → Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award →
causeOfDeath	kidney failure →
child	Patricia Hitchcock →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom → United States of America →
dateOfAward	1980-01-03 →
dateOfBirth	1899-08-13 →
dateOfDeath	1980-04-29 →
dateOfMarriage	1926-12-02 →
dateOfNaturalization	1955 →
directed	Blackmail → Dial M for Murder → North by Northwest → Notorious → Psycho → Rear Window → Rebecca → Shadow of a Doubt → Strangers on a Train → The 39 Steps → The Birds → The Lady Vanishes → The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog → Vertigo →
educatedAt	St Ignatius College, London →
employer	Gainsborough Pictures → Gaumont-British Picture Corporation → Paramount Pictures → Selznick International Pictures → Universal Pictures →
familyName	Hitchcock →
fieldOfWork	cinema →
fullName	Alfred Joseph Hitchcock →
genreSpecialization	psychological thriller → suspense film →
givenName	Alfred →
honorificTitle	Knight Bachelor →
influenced	Brian De Palma → Claude Chabrol → David Fincher → François Truffaut → Roman Polanski →
knownFor	cameo appearances in his own films → innovative cinematic techniques → use of suspense and tension →
language	English →
nickname	Master of Suspense →
notableWork	Blackmail → Dial M for Murder → North by Northwest → Notorious → Psycho → Rear Window → Rebecca → Sabotage → Shadow of a Doubt → Strangers on a Train → The 39 Steps → The Birds → The Lady Vanishes → The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog → Vertigo →
occupation	film director → film producer → screenwriter → television presenter →
placeOfBirth	Leytonstone, London, England →
placeOfDeath	Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
residence	London, England → Los Angeles, California, United States →
sexOrGender	male →
signatureStyleElement	MacGuffin plot device → elaborate storyboarding of shots → subjective camera techniques →
spouse	Alma Reville →

Referenced by (85)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Blackmail (1929 film) → Dial M for Murder → Family Plot → North by Northwest → Notorious → Psycho → Rear Window → Rebecca (1940 film) → Sabotage → Saboteur → Spellbound → Spellbound (1945 film) → The 39 Steps → The Birds → The Lady Vanishes → The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog → The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) → The Paradine Case → The Skin Game (1931 film) → To Catch a Thief → Vertigo →	director
Dial M for Murder → North by Northwest → Notorious → Psycho → Rear Window → The Birds → To Catch a Thief → Vertigo →	producer
Bruce Dern → Grace Kelly → Hume Cronyn → James Stewart → Jessica Tandy → Norman Lloyd → Peter Lorre → Thelma Ritter →	workedWith
Bernard Herrmann → David O. Selznick → Edith Head → Joseph Cotten → Salvador Dalí →	collaboratedWith
Battleship Potemkin → D. W. Griffith → Lev Kuleshov → Sergei Eisenstein →	influenced
Brian De Palma → Claude Chabrol → Martin Scorsese → Pedro Almodóvar →	influencedBy
AFI Life Achievement Award → Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival) → New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director →	notableRecipient
Alfred Hitchcock ("Hitchcock") → Ken Hitchcock ("Hitchcock") →	familyName
Anthony Hopkins → Toby Jones →	portrayed
St Ignatius College, London →	alumniInclude
MacGuffin plot device →	associatedWith
Bates Motel →	basedOnWorkBy
Alfred Hitchcock Presents →	creator
Master of Suspense →	epithetOf
Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Alfred Hitchcock (host segments)") →	featuredActor
Alfred Hitchcock Presents →	featuredDirector
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog →	filmEditingBy
BAFTA Fellowship →	firstRecipient
Alfred Hitchcock ("Alfred Joseph Hitchcock") →	fullName
St Ignatius College, London →	hasAlumnus
Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City) →	hasNotableBurial
Alfred Hitchcock Presents →	host
Family Plot →	isFinalFeatureFilmOf
St Ignatius College, London →	notableAlumnus
Alfred →	notableBearer
Hollywood Golden Age →	notableDirector
Anthony Hopkins ("Hitchcock") →	notableWork
Spellbound (1945 film) ("Alfred Hitchcock filmography") →	partOf
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) ("Alfred Hitchcock filmography") →	partOfDirectorFilmography
Saboteur →	partOfFilmographyOf
MacGuffin plot device →	popularizedBy
Alfred Hitchcock Presents →	presenter
Family Plot →	producedBy
Master of Suspense →	refersTo
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) →	remakeDirector
Blackmail (1929 film) →	screenwriter
Cary Grant →	workedWithDirector