Alfred Hitchcock Research (Abigail Odum)

 Alfred Hitchcock was born on 13 August 1899 and died 29 April 1980. At the beginning of his career he was very successful with his silent films and early talkies in the United Kingdom but then moved to Hollywood and in 1956 he was an American citizen. Hitchcock success included his fifty feature films within his six decade career.

 As Hitchcock’s career was launching he was inspired by many other films and directors. As he worked with F.W Murnau with his films he was impressed with his techniques and then used some in his own productions. Hitchcock also said that he was influenced by Fritz Lang's film, Destiny (1921).

 Hitchcock had a few problems when his career first was launched as some of his productions did not succeed such as Number 13 which had financial problems. He then directed a drama called mountain Eagle but this was lost. His career got increasingly better as he made his first thriller called The Lodger: A story of the London frog in 1927. Hitchcock was very successful from then on and made the following films.

British silent films

Number13 (1922), Always tell your wife (1923), the pleasure garden (1925), the mountain Eagle (1926), the lodger: A story of the London fog (1927), the ring (1927), Downhill (1927), the farmer’s wife (1928), Easy virtue (1928), Champagne (1928), The Manxman (1929), Blackmail (silent version) (1929).

British sound films

Blackmail (1930), Juno and the Paycock (1930), Murder! (1930), Elstree Calling (1931), The Skin Game (1931), Mary (1931), Rich and Strange (1932), Number Seventeen (1933), Waltzes from Vienna (1934), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1935), The 39 Steps (1936), Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1937), Young and Innocent (1938), The Lady Vanishes (1939), Jamaica Inn (1939).