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Hitchcock, Alfred (Joseph)

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English film director, a US citizen from 1955. A master of the suspense thriller, he was noted for his meticulously drawn storyboards that determined his camera angles and for cameo walk-ons in his own films. His Blackmail (1929) was the first successful British talking film. The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938) are British suspense classics. He went to Hollywood in 1940, and his work there included Rebecca (1940; Academy Award), Notorious (1946), Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963).

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