A series of well-received films during the 1940s led to Hitchcock briefly forming the independent company Transatlantic Pictures before entering his "golden decade" making films for Warner Bros. Selznick on the Academy Award winning Rebecca (1940). He married fellow worker Alma Reville in 1926 and she remained a key collaborator throughout his career.īy the late 1930s, his profile was rising internationally and he moved to Hollywood in 1939 to work for David O. He directed 23 films during the first phase of his career in England, including Blackmail (1929), one of the early British sound films. He began working in the British film industry at the start of the 1920s as a title designer before progressing to become a director. In a career spanning six decades he directed over fifty feature films, many of which are now regarded as classics, including The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Notorious (1946), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963).
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was a British film director and producer, often referred to as "The Master of Suspense" due to his mastery of the suspense thriller genre.