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Alfred
Joseph Hitchcock was born on August 13th, 1899 in
Leytonstone, England. He died on April 29th, 1980 in Los
Angeles, California. Son of William ed Emma, he grew up as a strict Catholic attending London's hard Saint Ignatius College run by Jesuits. Then he attended the "School of Engineering and Navigation" but in 1914 he had to give it up, after his father's death, due to economic reasons. |
During those years, Hitchcock was very fashinated by murders. He used to visit Scotland Yard's Criminal museum and collect newspaper articles dealing with this subject.
In 1915 he started working as a designer at the "Henley Telegraph and Cable Company".
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did his first step in the movie world in 1920 when he
secured a job as a title designer in the new London
"Players-Lasky-Studios". Hitchcock designed
titles in all the movies produced by the studio for next
two years. In 1922, after the director of "Always Tell Your Wife" got ill, he had his first chance at directing, and he finished the making of the movie, showing great ability. During the same year, the Studio gave him his first directing assignment on the movie "Number 13", but he could not end it because the Lasky studio closed its British operation. |
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In
1923 Hitchcock was hired by Michael Balcon and started
working in the company later to be known as
"Gainsborough Pictures". During next three
years he worked on a lot of movies as a writer, titles
designer, editor and assistant director. In 1925 Hitchcock's career as a director finally began. He was assigned to work on "The Pleasure Garden" , a British/German co-production. |
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