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"Hitch" is quite possibly one of the most famous directors of all time. Most people have probably seen one of his films at some time. He was "Sir Alfred" for a brief four months before his death in 1980. He also produced and hosted the television anthology series ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' from 1955 to 1965, although he only actually directed a handful of the show's episodes.

Made frequent use of the '{{MacGuffin}}' and popularized the term.

Some films directed by Hitchcock include:
* ''The Lodger'' - a silent movie, and the first Hitchcock thriller.
* ''Blackmail'' - the first talkie he directed. A young woman kills an attempted rapist in self defense, and a petty thief discovers evidence that suggests it was murder. He tries to blackmail her, but unwittingly winds up implicating himself.
* ''The39Steps'' - source of the quote for AnonymousRinger.
* ''The Man Who Knew Too Much'' - A British couple learn about an assassination plot, and the assassins kidnap their daughter to keep them quiet.
* ''Sabotage'' - An American woman in London suspects her husband is part of a bombing plot. Roiled audiences with its aversion of InfantImmortality.
* ''The Lady Vanishes'' - a young playgirl befriends an old woman on a train who disappears without a trace, and discovers a spy ring conspiracy while searching for her
* ''Saboteur'' - a Nazi starts a fire at a plane factory and an innocent man gets framed.
* ''Spellbound'' - A mental hospital gets a new director, but it turns out he has secrets of his own. Has dream sequences designed by Salvador Dali.
* ''Dial M For Murder'' - A man hires a hitman to bump off his cheating wife (Grace Kelly). However, the hitman ends up being killed by the wife in self-defence, so the man decides to kill her through the judicial system and frames her for murders... Based on a play, it's one of Hitch's best known and an example of a movie BottleEpisode.
* ''The Trouble With Harry'' - Hitchcock's only real attempt at comedy. A man dies in a Vermont forest. We discover just how many times you can bury and dig up the same corpse.
** He's in a deep, deep, ''wonderful'' sleep.
* ''I Confess'' - A priest hears a confession of murder from one of his church workers- then is accused of the crime himself.
* ''Rebecca'' - a naive young woman marries an independently wealth widower, but is haunted by the legacy of his deceased first wife Rebecca.
* ''Shadow Of A Doubt'' - A suburban teenager discovers that her uncle is a serial killer, but nobody believes her.
* ''Notorious'' - A convicted Nazi's American daughter is recruited by government agents to spy on his old friends who are hiding in Argentina.
* ''Rope'' - in which two people murder a man for kicks, then put his body in a trunk. Then proceed to host a dinner party off of it.
* ''Strangers On A Train'' ...strike up a conversation about the people in their lives they want dead. One suggests they trade murders so [[ThePerfectCrime they won't get caught]]. The other one laughs it off. The first guy was [[MyGodYouAreSerious serious]].
* ''RearWindow'' - James Stewart plays a photographer with a broken leg and nothing better to do but spy on his neighbors... and do some {{amateur sleuth}}ing (with the help of Grace Kelly) when he suspects one of them of murder.
* ''The Man Who Knew Too Much'' - remake of original in which Doris Day and James Stewart get their son kidnapped and "Que Sera, Sera" (the song was written for this film) plays a big part.
* ''The Wrong Man'' - Henry Fonda gets falsely accused of robbery. Based on a true story.
* ''{{Vertigo}}'' - a San Francisco policeman who is afraid of heights revisits a suicide years later when he finds out it was staged.
* ''NorthByNorthwest'' - Involving a man, a crop duster and a murder in the UN.
* ''{{Psycho}}'' - Janet Leigh has a fatal encounter in a shower.
** This was a massive shock at the time- films simply did not off their lead a third of the way in. (Still don't, but now we have {{spoiler}}s on the Internet if they ever do.)
* ''TheBirds'' - Impossible to describe without it sounding like a B {{horror}} film, especially since it's premise is one of the classic B horror plots, but it's okay, because [[ItWasHisSled everyone already knows what it is about]].
* ''Frenzy'' - one of the most graphic of Hitch's films, this involves a man being framed for a bunch of sex murders.
* ''Family Plot'' - A dark comedy featuring William Devane (Secretary Heller from ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'').

It should be noted that Hitchcock did '''''not''''' direct ''TheThirdMan'', as is widely believed.

Known for:
* AuthorAppeal: blondes
* TheCameo (entire pages chronicle his appearances)
** He appears personally in silhouette, speaking, to introduce ''The Wrong Man'', apparently because it was based on a true story.
* Claustrophobia
* DepravedHomosexual
* Falling Down Stairs
* FreudianExcuse ([[ItWasHisSled you have to ask?]])
* {{Getting Crap Past the Radar}}: Examples are too numerous to list
* Handcuffs
* MyBelovedSmother
* {{Scenery Porn}}
* Strangulation
* TrackingZoom: the "Vertigo" Shot
* WronglyAccused (a lot)
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