"Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films Alfred Hitchcock's films show an interesting tendency towards recurring themes and plot devices throughout his life as a director. This article lists some of the themes and plot devices that occur repeatedly in his films. There are images of birds in nearly all of Hitchcock's films. Some of the most prominent are listed below. Black people appear mostly as background characters in many of his films, except Philippe Dubois who is both intelligent and clever, The church have appeared in some of this films, Cultured villains have been shown in many of his"
"a period of weeks. Alfred Hitchcock's cameo is a signature occurrence in most of his films. In ""Psycho"", he can be seen through a window—wearing a Stetson hat—standing outside Marion Crane's office. Wardrobe mistress Rita Riggs has said that Hitchcock chose this scene for his cameo so that he could be in a scene with his daughter (who played one of Marion's colleagues). Others have suggested that he chose this early appearance in the film in order to avoid distracting the audience. The murder of Leigh's character in the shower is the film's pivotal scene and one of the best-known"
"Michael Gough Francis Michael Gough ( ; 23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances, known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958 and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four films of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher ""Batman"" tetralogy. Gough was born in Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States (now Malaysia) on 23 November 1916, the son of English parents Francis Berkeley Gough and Frances Atkins (née Bailie). Gough was educated at Rose Hill School, Tunbridge Wells, and at Durham School."
"I love you. God bless. Michael (Mr Wayne) Keaton."" Gough was added in ""In Memoriam"" at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Michael Gough Francis Michael Gough ( ; 23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances, known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958 and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four films of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher ""Batman"" tetralogy. Gough was born in Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States (now Malaysia) on 23 November 1916, the son of English"
"he falls to his death. The McKennas return to their hotel suite. Ben explains to their now-sleeping friends, ""I'm sorry we were gone so long, but we had to go over and pick up Hank."" Alfred Hitchcock's cameo is a signature occurrence in most of his films. In ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" he can be seen 25:42 into the film, in the lower left corner, watching acrobats in the Moroccan market, with his back to the camera, wearing a light gray suit, and putting his hands into his pockets, just before the spy is killed. Alfred Hitchcock first"
"Hitchcock Papers is housed at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library. The David O. Selznick and the Ernest Lehman collections housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Texas, contain material related to Hitchcock's work on the production of ""The Paradine Case"", ""Rebecca"", ""Spellbound"", ""North by Northwest"" and ""Family Plot."" Seven films Six films Five films Four films Three films Two films Many of the British actors additionally appeared in some of the two dozen or so films Hitchcock worked on in other capacities, such as co-writer, title designer, art director and assistant director. Biographies ""(chronological)"" Miscellaneous Alfred Hitchcock"
"is the version now generally available although some critics consider the silent version superior. Alfred Hitchcock filmed the silent version with Sam Livesey as the Chief Inspector and the sound version with Harvey Braban in the same role. Alfred Hitchcock's cameo, a signature occurrence in many of Hitchcock's films, shows him being bothered by a small boy as he reads a book on the London Underground. This is probably the lengthiest of Hitchcock's cameo appearances and he appears around 10 minutes after the start. As the director became better known to audiences, especially when he appeared as the host of"
"don't know."" On 21 September 2011, Peter R. de Vries named Hopkins in the role of the Heineken owner Freddy Heineken in a future film about his kidnapping. Hopkins portrayed Odin, the Allfather or ""king"" of Asgard, in the 2011 film adaptation of Marvel Comics' ""Thor"". Hopkins portrayed Alfred Hitchcock in Sacha Gervasi's biopic ""Hitchcock"", following his career while making ""Psycho"". The film was released on 23 November 2012. In 2013, he reprised his role as Odin in """" and again in 2017's """". In 2014, he portrayed Methuselah in Darren Aronofsky's ""Noah"". Since October 2016, Hopkins has been starring"
"life and imagination, it's undeniably lively and provocative."" Hitchcock (film) Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book ""Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho"". The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012, with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012. ""Hitchcock"" centers on the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of ""Psycho"", a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock"
"Hitchcock (film) Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book ""Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho"". The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012, with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012. ""Hitchcock"" centers on the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of ""Psycho"", a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock opens his latest film, ""North by Northwest"", to"
"Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco"" by Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal, which was published in 2002. In 2003, she published ""Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man"", co-written with Laurent Bouzereau. Pat Hitchcock Patricia Alma O'Connell (née Hitchcock; born 7 July 1928), commonly known as Pat Hitchcock, is an English actress and producer. She is the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville, and had small roles in several of his films, starting with ""Stage Fright"" (1950). Hitchcock was born in London in 1928, the only child of film director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville."
"Marshall Schlom Marshall Ivan Schlom (March 3, 1928 – January 21, 2015) was an American script supervisor who worked on many popular Hollywood films and television series in a career spanning four decades. He was also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences foreign film committee for almost the same amount of time. He was most noted for his work on Alfred Hitchcock's ""Psycho"", Barry Levinson's ""Rain Man"", and his multiple collaborations with such filmmakers as Stanley Kramer, Mike Nichols, and Arthur Penn. Schlom was born on March 3, 1928, in Los Angeles, California. His father"
"or innovation. The earliest film on the list dates from 1913, the latest from 1983. The 1930s is the most represented decade with 24 entries, followed by the 1920s (16) and the 1940s (14). Maurice Elvey, with four films on the list, is the most represented director. The first film on the list is Alfred Hitchcock's 1926 feature ""The Mountain Eagle"", described as ""the Holy Grail of film historians"". Since 2012, the BFI has revealed that a number of the films on the list have been found. As of 2017, 18 of the 75 films have been found in their"
"Alfred Hitchcock filmography Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was an English filmmaker and director. Popularly known as the ""Master of Suspense"" for his use of innovative film techniques in thrillers, Hitchcock started his career in the British film industry as a title designer and art director for a number of silent films during the early 1920s, most of which are now lost. His directorial debut was the 1925 release ""The Pleasure Garden"". Hitchcock followed this with """", his first commercial and critical success. It featured many of the thematic elements his films would be known for such as an innocent man on"
"David Knijnenburg David Albertus Trelawney Knijnenburg (; born 3 April 1967) is an Australian stage, television and film actor, best known for playing Alfred Hitchcock in his stage production ""Hitchcock & Herrmann"" and in assorted roles in Twelfth Night Theatre's numerous stage adaptations of classic BBC television series such as ""Dad's Army"" and ""'Allo 'Allo!"". He is notable for his height – he is two metres (six-foot seven inches) tall. He was one of dozens of names mentioned during the media speculation over the casting of the eleventh Doctor Who after David Tennant announced his resignation. Born into a theatrical"
"Important art galleries in the United Kingdom include the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern (the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year). The United Kingdom has had a considerable influence on the history of the cinema. The British directors Alfred Hitchcock, whose film ""Vertigo"" is considered by some critics as the best film of all time, and David Lean are among the most critically acclaimed of all-time. Other important directors including Charlie Chaplin, Michael Powell, Carol Reed, Edgar Wright, Christopher Nolan, and Ridley Scott. Many British actors have"
"each listed as single entries. These pairs and trilogies of films were directed by Leni Riefenstahl, Satyajit Ray, Francis Ford Coppola, and Peter Jackson, respectively. Martin Scorsese also had three films on the list, which were ""Taxi Driver"" (1976), ""Raging Bull"" (1980), and ""Goodfellas"" (1990). Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Donen, Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Ernst Lubitsch, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Steven Spielberg, François Truffaut, Billy Wilder, and William Wyler all had two films each on the list. Films on the list span a period of 80 years starting with ""Sherlock Jr."" (1924) directed by Buster"
"""Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him."" He won two Golden Globes, eight Laurel Awards, and five lifetime achievement awards, including the first BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award and, in 1979, an AFI Life Achievement Award. He was nominated five times for an Academy Award for Best Director. ""Rebecca"", nominated for 11 Oscars, won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940; another Hitchcock film, ""Foreign Correspondent"", was also nominated that year. By 2016 seven of his films had been selected for"
"Pat Hitchcock Patricia Alma O'Connell (née Hitchcock; born 7 July 1928), commonly known as Pat Hitchcock, is an English actress and producer. She is the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville, and had small roles in several of his films, starting with ""Stage Fright"" (1950). Hitchcock was born in London in 1928, the only child of film director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville. The family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1939. Once there, Hitchcock's father soon made his mark in Hollywood. As a child, Hitchcock knew she wanted to be an actress. In"
"of 1943) he had a complete collection of all of Crosby's records. Hogan died on August 18, 1995 at the age of 77 in Little Rock. Before he began acting in films, Hogan sang with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and in nightclubs. Dick Hogan Richard Hogan (November 27, 1917 – August 18, 1995) was an American actor of the 1930s and 1940s. During his 12-year career he appeared in over three dozen films, in roles which varied from unnamed bellhops to featured and starring roles. His final film performance was as the murder victim in Alfred Hitchcock's treatise on thrill"
"1980, Hitchcock received a knighthood. Alfred Hitchcock filmography Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was an English filmmaker and director. Popularly known as the ""Master of Suspense"" for his use of innovative film techniques in thrillers, Hitchcock started his career in the British film industry as a title designer and art director for a number of silent films during the early 1920s, most of which are now lost. His directorial debut was the 1925 release ""The Pleasure Garden"". Hitchcock followed this with """", his first commercial and critical success. It featured many of the thematic elements his films would be known for such"
"Whitfield Cook George Whitfield Cook III (April 9, 1909 – November 12, 2003) was an American writer of screenplays, stage plays, short stories and novels, best known for his contributions to two Alfred Hitchcock films, ""Stage Fright"" and ""Strangers on a Train"". He also wrote scripts for several TV series, including ""Suspense"", ""Climax!"" and ""Playhouse 90"". George Whitfield Cook III was born on April 9, 1909 in Montclair, New Jersey, the son of engineer George W. Cook and his wife, the former Hortense Heyse. He began writing short stories as a child and later cited Walter de la Mare and"
"Donat's son, John Donat, (1933–2004), was an architectural photographer, and actors Peter Donat and Richard Donat are his nephews. Robert Donat Friedrich Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's ""The 39 Steps"" (1935) and ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" (1939), winning for the latter the Academy Award for Best Actor. In his book, ""The Age of the Dream Palace, Jeffrey Richards"" wrote that Donat was ""The British cinema's one undisputed romantic leading man in the 1930s"". ""The image he projected was that of"
"original version of ""Father of the Bride"" (1950), he played an unctuous wedding caterer. In the 1951 film """" he played a sympathetic German Fieldmarshal Gerd von Rundstedt, presenting him as a tragic, resigned figure completely disillusioned with Hitler. Carroll is perhaps best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films: ""Rebecca"" (1940), ""Suspicion"" (1941), ""Spellbound"" (1945), ""The Paradine Case"" (1947), ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951) and ""North by Northwest"" (1959). He appeared in more Hitchcock films than anyone other than Clare Greet (1871–1939) (who appeared in seven) and Hitchcock himself, whose cameos were a trademark. As with earlier"
"finding the culprit. This notion is a core concept in ""Dial M for Murder"", ""Strangers on a Train"", ""Vertigo"", and to a lesser extent, in ""Shadow of a Doubt"" and ""Suspicion"". Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films Alfred Hitchcock's films show an interesting tendency towards recurring themes and plot devices throughout his life as a director. This article lists some of the themes and plot devices that occur repeatedly in his films. There are images of birds in nearly all of Hitchcock's films. Some of the most prominent are listed below. Black people appear mostly as background characters in"
"demanded a stronger, older presence"", and when attempts to obtain Ethel Barrymore and Mildred Natwick fell through, German actor Reinhold Schünzel suggested Leopoldine Konstantin to Hitchcock and Dozier. Konstantin had been one of pre-war Germany's greatest actresses. ""Notorious"" was Konstantin's only American film appearance, and ""one of the unforgettable portraits in Hitchcock's films"". Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearance, a signature occurrence in his films, takes place at the party in Sebastian's mansion. At 1:04:43 (1:01:50 on European DVDs and 64:28 of the edited cut) into the film, Hitchcock is seen drinking a glass of champagne as Grant and Bergman approach. He"
"by working nude, Renfro was hired as the body double for the actress Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film ""Psycho"". She was paid $500. The shower scene in ""Psycho"" is considered one of the most famous scenes in cinema history. It features more than 50 camera cuts in three minutes and took six days to film. Although nudity is implied in the rapid cuts, none is seen. Hitchcock and Leigh initially maintained that only Leigh appeared in the shower. Only later did Hitchcock acknowledge that when Leigh's face is seen it is her, otherwise it is Renfro. Renfro subsequently"
"an ""excellently performed bit of story-telling"". The review praised Alfred Hitchcock as ""one of England's ablest and most imaginative film makers"" and stated that Peter Lorre ""lacks the opportunity to be the one-man chamber of horrors that he was in [""M""]"" but ""is certainly something to be seen"", comparing him favourably to actor Charles Laughton. The film has an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of"
"books: In the 2012 film ""Hitchcock"", Cook was portrayed by Danny Huston as a charmer trying to persuade Hitchock's wife into having an extra-marital affair during the filming of ""Psycho"". Several published Hitchcock biographies document this as accurate from Cook's private diaries. The New Dramatists of New York City annually bestow a Whitfield Cook Award on a playwright for the best unproduced, unpublished play, as determined by a jury. Whitfield Cook George Whitfield Cook III (April 9, 1909 – November 12, 2003) was an American writer of screenplays, stage plays, short stories and novels, best known for his contributions to"
"for director Alfred Hitchcock in both ""Murder!"" (1930) and ""The 39 Steps"" (1935). Gus McNaughton Gus McNaughton (29 July 1881 – 18 November 1969), also known as Augustus Le Clerq and Augustus Howard, was an English film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1930 and 1947. He was born in London and died in Castor, Cambridgeshire. He is sometimes credited as Gus MacNaughton. He appeared on stage from 1899, as a juvenile comedian with the Fred Karno company, the influential British music hall troupe. In films, McNaughton was often cast as the ""fast-talking sidekick"", and he appeared in several"
"progression from shot to shot. A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."" By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time: ""Rear Window"" (1954), ""Vertigo"" (1958), ""North by Northwest"" (1959), and ""Psycho"" (1960). In 2012 ""Vertigo"" replaced Orson Welles's ""Citizen Kane"" (1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made. By 2016 seven of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite, ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943). He received the"
"on 25 reviews. Some critics have inferred that Hitchcock was hoping to groom the relatively unknown Frederick Stafford as a star of his own making, similar to Tippi Hedren; however, Stafford remained an unknown in Hollywood, though he had a lengthy career in European films. The movie earned $3,839,363 in North American rentals in 1970. Topaz (1969 film) Topaz is a 1969 American espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on the 1967 Cold War novel ""Topaz"" by Leon Uris, the film is about a French intelligence agent who becomes entangled in the Cold War politics of the events"
"silent film legend Harold Lloyd, who gave the first seminar in 1969 — takes place on campus throughout during the academic year and brings AFI Conservatory Fellows together with artists to share their work and experiences in an informal and accessible setting. Robert Altman, Darren Aronofsky, Lucille Ball, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, Jerry Bruckheimer, James Cameron, Anne Coates, Sofia Coppola, Bette Davis, Guillermo del Toro, Clint Eastwood, Nora Ephron, Jane Fonda, William Friedkin, Tom Hanks, Howard Hawks, Edith Head, Amy Heckerling Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Barry Jenkins, David Lynch, Patty Jenkins, Ryan Murphy, Christopher Nolan, Al Pacino,"