Alfred Hitchcock.

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on the 13th August 1899 and died at the age of 80 on the 29th April 1980. Sir Alfred was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England and died in California, USA. Sir Alfred was renowned as England's best director and and his career lasted over half a century! 

Sir Alfred was also known as 'the master of suspense' and when writing scripts for his films he payed a strict attention to detail. Some of Alfred's best known films include: Psycho, North by Northwest, Rear Window and Vertigo. Alfred won a number of awards throughout his directing career, receiving two golden globes, eight Laurel awards, and five lifetime achievement awards, as well as being nominated for a number of prestigious awards. Some people would argue that Alfred had a favourite actor, Clare Greet, as she appeared in 7 of Alfred's productions.

Hitchcock has his very own style of script writing and knew great ways to great suspense and action. In many of his films we see how he has used red herrings to dramatic effect and how he had tricked the viewer into thinking something completely different from the truth. He also knew ways on how to scare people too, for example, his film 'The Birds' on the movie premier night, as the audience was leaving the theatre, he had fake birds hiding in tress and speakers that would make loud bird noises as the audience was leaving. He once said "They like to put their toe in the cold water of fear."