Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock (Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock) was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen, whilst remaining a British subject. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in his whole career.

Alfred Hitchcock was born on the 13^th August 1899, Leytonstone, London and sadly died on the 29^th April 1980 (aged 80).

Hitchcock's films sometimes feature characters struggling in their relationships with their mothers. In North by Northwest (1959), Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant's) is an innocent man ridiculed by his mother for insisting that shadowy, murderous men are after him. In The Birds (1963), the Rod Taylor character, an innocent man, finds his world under attack by vicious birds, and struggles to free himself of a clinging mother (Jessica Tandy).