Key Director ; Alfred Hitchcock

Early Life:

Born on  August  in  Leytonstone England, Hitchcock was the second son and the youngest of three children of William Hitchcock , a greengrocer , and Emma Jane Hitchcock . Hitchcock was brought up as a Roman Catholic and was sent to Salesian College and the Jesuit Classic school St Ignatius' College in Stamford Hill, London.[His parents were both of half-English and half-Irish . He often described a lonely and sheltered childhood worsened by his obesity.

Around age five, according to Hitchcock, he was sent by his father to the local police station with a note asking the officer to lock him away for five minutes as punishment for behaving badly. This incident not only implanted a lifetime fear of policemen in Hitchcock, but such harsh treatment and wrongful accusations would be found frequently throughout his films.

When Hitchcock was , his father died. In the same year, he left St. Ignatius to study at the London County Council School of Engineering and Navigation in Poplar, London. After leaving, he became a draftsman and advertising designer with a cable company called Henley's. During the First World War, Hitchcock was rejected for military service because of his obesity. Nevertheless, the young man signed up to a cadet regiment of the Royal Engineers in . His military stint was limited: he received theoretical briefings, weekend drills and exercises. Hitchcock would march around London's Hyde Park and was required to wear puttees, the proper wrapping of which he could never master.
 

Films he Directed:

(1922) (unfinished)

Always Tell Your Wife (1923)

The Pleasure Garden (1925)

he Mountain Eagle (1926) (lost)

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

The Ring (1927)

 

Downhill (1927)

 

The Farmer's Wife (1928)

 

Easy Virtue (1928)

 

Champagne (1928)

 

Murder! (1930)

 

Elstree Calling (1930)

 

The Skin Game (1931)

 

Rich and Strange (1931)

 

Number Seventeen (1932)

 

Waltzes from Vienna (1934)

Awards he has won:

}Hitchcock was a multiple nominee and winner of a number of prestigious awards, receiving two Golden Globes, eight Laurel Awards, and five lifetime achievement awards including the first BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, as well as being five times nominated for, albeit never winning, an Academy Award as Best Director. His film Rebecca (nominated for  Oscars) won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 19—particularly notable as another Hitchcock film, Foreign Correspondent, was also nominated that same year.

}English Heritage Blue plaque in  Cromwell Road, London, SW5 commemorating Hitchcock

}In addition to these, Hitchcock received a knighthood in  when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in the  New Year Honours. Asked by a reporter why it had taken the Queen so long, Hitchcock quipped, "I suppose it was a matter of carelessness".
An English Heritage blue plaque, unveiled in , marks where Sir Alfred Hitchcock lived in London at  Cromwell Road, Kensington and Chelsea SW5.

}In June , nine restored versions of Hitchcock's early silent films, including his directorial debut, The Pleasure Garden, were shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theater. Known as "The Hitchcock ," the traveling tribute was made possible by a $3 million program organized by the British Film Institute.