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For nearly the last year I have been saying I was going to do this group, and now I have.  If you like either one, or both you're invited to join.  It's the reason I've reposted the article below; there is also an article on Agatha Christie

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977379777 Christie article: 

Sir Alfred Hitchcock " Hitch" of film (Director) -- Movies and Television -- another California resident,

Born August 13, 1899

Died April 29, 1980

Hitch was both a British and American citizen

Fear/fantasy

Suspense

Thrillers

Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Hitch the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1967. Hitch never received an Oscar, but was nominated as follows:

Best Director for "Psycho" in 1960

Best Director for "Rebecca" (1940), "Lifeboat" (1944), "Spellbound" (1945), and "Rear Window" (1954), and Producer (Best Film) for "Suspicion" (1941).

"Rebecca", which Hitchcock directed, won the 1940 "Best Picture Oscar.

Hitch is considered the Best Film Director of all time by The Screen Directory; side by side with Director Spike Lee -- who would be classified as belonging in an entirely different genre of Film, I would agree. Hitch was knighted in 1980.

Hitch's unique signature was to usually make a cameo appearance in his films.

Sixteen films directed by Hitchcock earned Oscar nominations, though only six of those films earned Hitchcock himself a nomination. The total number of Oscar nominations (including winners) earned by films he directed is fifty. Four of those films earned Best Picture nominations.

This year, four of Hitchcock's films were named among the ten best mystery films of all time in the AFI's 10 Top 10. They were

• "Vertigo" (number 1)
• "Rear Window" (number 3)
• "North by Northwest" (number 7), and
• "Dial 'M' For Murder" (number 9

Below is a delineation of Hitch's work:

(Source -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock)

Silent films As a Writer

In these early films, Hitchcock was usually credited with the role of title designer. Many are now lost. All works are in public domain.

1921 -

• The Call of Youth
• The Great Day
• Appearances
• The Mystery Road
• The Princess of New York
• Dangerous Lies
• The Bonnie Brier Bush

1922 -

• Three Live Ghosts
• Tell Your Children
• Love's Boomerang
• The Spanish Jade
• The Man from Home

1923 -

• Woman to Woman
• The White Shadow

1924 -

• The Prude's Fall
• The Passionate Adventure

1925 -

• The Blackguard

As a Director

1922 -

• No. 13

1923 -

• Always Tell Your Wife

1925 -

• The Pleasure Garden

1926 -

• The Mountain Eagle

1927 -

• The Lodger
• Downhill
• The Ring

1928 -

• Easy Virtue
• The Farmer's Wife
• Champagne

1929 -

• The Manxman
• Blackmail (silent version)

British films

1929 -

• Blackmail

1930 -

• Juno and the Paycock
• Murder!
• Elstree Calling

1931 -

• The Skin Game
• Mary

1932

• Rich and Strange
• Waltzes From Vienna

1934 -

• The Man Who Knew Too Much

1935 -

• The 39 Steps

1936 -

• Secret Agent
• Sabotage

1937 -

• Young and Innocent

1938 -

• The Lady Vanishes

1939 -

• Jamaica Inn

American/British films

1940 -

• Rebecca
• Foreign Correspondent

1941 -

• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• Suspicion

1942 -

• Saboteur

1943 -

• Shadow of a Doubt

1944 -

• Lifeboat
• Aventure Malgache
• Bon Voyage

1945 -

• Spellbound

1946 -

• Notorious

1947 -

• The Parradine Case

1948 -

• Rope

1949

• Under Capricorn

1950 -

• Stage Fright

1951 -

• Strangers on a Train

1953 -

• I Confess

1954 -

• Dial M for Murder
• Rear Window

1955 -

• To Catch a Thief
• The Trouble With Harry

1956 -

• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• The Wrong Man

1958 -

• Vertigo

1959 -

• North by Northwest

1960 -

• Psycho

1963 -

• The Birds

1964 -

• Marnie

1966 -

• Torn Curtain

1969 -

• Topaz

1972 -

• Frenzy

1976 -

• Family Plot

Television episodes -- Alfred Hitchcock Presents:

• "Revenge" (1955)
• "Breakdown" (1955)
• "The Case of Mr. Pelham" (1955)
• "Back for Christmas" (1956)
• "Wet Saturday" (1956)
• "Mr. Blanchard's Secret" (1956)
• "One More Mile to Go" (1957)

Suspicion: "Four O'Clock" (1957)

• "The Perfect Crime" (1957)
• "Lamb to the Slaughter" (1958)
• "Dip in the Pool" (1958)
• "Poison" (1958)
• "Banquo's Chair" (1959)
• "Arthur" (1959)
• "The Crystal Trench" (1959)

Ford Startime: "Incident at a Corner" (1960)

• "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" (1960)
• "The Horseplayer" (1961)
• "Bang! You're Dead" (1961)
• "I Saw the Whole Thing" (1962)

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Note: some of Hitch's work has been lost.