Alfred Hitchcock
It was around 1920 when Hitchcock joined the film industry. He started off drawing the sets he was a very skilled artist. 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 hat 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. Hitchcock didn't give up then. He directed a film called The Pleasure Garden (1925), a British/German production, which was very popular. Hitchcock made his first trademark film, The Lodger (1927) .
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 David O. Selznick, an American producer at the time, hired him to direct an adaptation of 'Daphne du Maurier' (av) 's Rebecca (1940) .
It was after Saboteur (1942) was completed, as his fame as a director grew, that films companies began to refer to his films like Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976), Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) .
On March 7, 1979, Hitchcock was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award. In late 1979, Hitchcock was knighted, making him Sir Alfred Hitchcock.
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