Alfred Hitchcock Filmography

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 04

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: The fourth season of the full-color Alfred Hitchcock Presents revival was also the series' third season on the USA Network -- and the final season in which new episodes were produced (16 in all). This year, only one of the episodes is based on an earlier installment from the first Alfred Hitchcock Presents Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 03

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Originally telecast on the USA cable network, season three of the color revival of Alfred Hitchcock Presents offers 24 new episodes. Unlike previous seasons, which were largely comprised of remakes from the old black-and-white Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the third season consists virtually in its Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 02

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Canceled by NBC in 1986, the "new," full-color version of the classic suspense anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents was brought back one year later by the USA network. For its inaugural season on USA, the series served up 13 new half-hour episodes, fleshing out the schedule with reruns from the NBC Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 01

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: NBC's 1985 revival of the classic suspense anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents begins with the two-hour pilot episode, made up of four new versions of classic Hitchcock episodes from the 1960s: "Incident in a Small Jail," "Man from the South," "Bang, You're Dead," and "An Unlocked Window." Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Jimmy Stewart

Synopsis: Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of James Stewart. Included are excerpts from: It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Vertigo and others. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Family Plot

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the Read More

Inside Hitchcock

Synopsis: This documentary video looks at the life and movies of this famous filmmaker. An interview with Hitchcock is also featured. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Frenzy

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock entered the 1970s with his commercial reputation virtually in tatters, a far cry from his stature at the start of the 1960s. Then, he'd been in the middle of the massively successful trio of movies, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds, and was a ubiquitous presence on Read More

The Mike Douglas Show: December 30, 1969

Topaz

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford, a veteran of European-filmed James Bond rip-offs of the 1960s, is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the Read More

Torn Curtain

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova

Synopsis: A double agent has to contend with enemies on both sides of the political fence as well as the woman he loves in this thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Prof. Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) is an gifted American physicist who, at the height of the Cold War, decides to defect to East Germany. Read More

Marnie

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham

Synopsis: Condemned as being a "disappointing" and "unworthy" Alfred Hitchcock effort at the time of its release, Marnie has since grown in stature; it is still considered a lesser Hitchcock, but a fascinating one. Tippi Hedren plays Marnie, a compulsive thief who cannot stand to be touched by any man. She Read More

A Talk with Hitchcock

Synopsis: A rare glimpse into the mind of the notorious cagey master filmmaker, this documentary was shot on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie. With remarkable candor Hitchcock discusses his career and his passion for movies. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season 10

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Season ten of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour marked the suspense anthology's move from CBS to NBC, where as Alfred Hitchcock Presents it had previously run in a half-hour format from 1960 through 1962. At the same time, the series forsook its sparsely attended Friday-night time slot to a slightly more Read More

The Birds

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies

Synopsis: The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season 09

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Season nine of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (formerly the half-hour Alfred Hitchcock Presents) represented the first season without an episode directed by series host Alfred Hitchcock, who was otherwise occupied with his upcoming theatrical feature, Marnie. Thus, instead of the traditional Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: I Saw the Whole Thing

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The only episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour directed by Hitchcock himself (though he'd previously helmed several of the anthology's half-hour installments), "I Saw the Whole Thing" draws its suspense from the reliability -- or lack of reliability -- of eyewitness testimony. Arrested on Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season 08

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: After two years on NBC, the long-running suspense anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents returned to its original stamping grounds, CBS, for its eighth season on the air. Only it wasn't Alfred Hitchcock Presents anymore: responding to a then-current industry trend, the series had expanded from 30 to Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 07

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: The seventh season of the suspense anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents rather surprisingly did not open with an episode directed by Alfred Hitchcock himself, but instead with "The Hat Box," directed by frequent series contributor Alan Crosland Jr. In fact, Hitch helmed only one episode this season Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Horse Player

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Inveterate gambler Sheridan (played by Ed Gardner of Duffy's Tavern fame) is convinced that his recent streak of luck is due to the power of prayer. Accordingly, Sheridan contributes heavily to the church-repair fund of neighborhood priest Father Amian (Claude Rains). Hoping to further extend his Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bang, You're Dead

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock himself directed this nailbiter, featuring prolific child actor Billy Mumy. When his uncle Rich (Steve Dunne) returns from Africa, little Jackie Chester (Mumy) is delighted, knowing that Rich has brought him a surprise. Secretly rummaging through his uncle's luggage, Jackie finds Read More

Psycho

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: After five seasons on CBS' Sunday-night roster, the suspense anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents moved to a new network, NBC, and a new night, Tuesday, for its sixth season on the air. NBC hoped to utilize the Hitchcock show as a strong lead-in for its new anthology, Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock Presents moved from its familiar Sunday-night slot on CBS to a new Tuesday-night berth for rival network NBC to launch its sixth season with this amusingly ironic tale from the pen of frequent series contributor Roald Dahl. Audrey Meadows adroitly suppresses her familiar "Alice Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Crystal Trench

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This poignant playlet is based on a story by A.E.W. Mason, of The Four Feathers fame. After the death of her husband in a freak mountain accident in Switzerland, Stella Ballister (Patricia Owens) solemnly vows to remain faithful to her spouse's memory. Twenty years pass, and throughout all that Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: The fifth season of the suspense anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents gets off to a rousing start with another episode directed by Alfred Hitchcock himself, the humorously macabre "Arthur," starring Laurence Harvey as a taciturn chicken farmer who devises a unique method for divesting himself of Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Banquo's Chair

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of the true classics of suspense fiction, Rupert Croft-Cooke's short story Banquo's Chair had been adapted for radio and television innumerable times before it was given the Alfred Hitchcock touch in this unforgettable episode. John Williams plays Scotland Yard inspector Brent, who is Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Arthur

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season five of Alfred Hitchcock Presents gets under way with a darkly humorous character piece, directed by Hitchcock himself. Laurence Harvey heads the cast as Arthur Williams, a fairly prosperous New Zealand poultry farmer. Ever since he was jilted by his sweetheart, Helen (Hazel Court), Arthur Read More

North by Northwest

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to call for a messenger just as a page goes out for a "George Kaplan." From that moment, Thornhill finds that he has stepped into a nightmare -- he is quietly abducted by a Read More

Vertigo

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones

Synopsis: Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Season four of Alfred Hitchcock Presents gets under way with "Poison," directed by Alfred Hitchcock himself, adapted from a story by Roald Dahl, and starring Wendell Corey, who'd been one of the leads in Hitch's 1954 theatrical feature Rear Window. The only other episode helmed personally by Hitchcock Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Poison

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This first episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents' fourth season is adapted from a short story by Roald Dahl, with a new climactic twist added by veteran screenwriter Casey Robinson (Kings Row, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, etc.). James Donald plays Harry Pope, a hard-drinking, racially bigoted Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Dip in the Pool

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Roald Dahl's classic short story A Dip in the Pool has been dramatized numerous times on both radio and TV, though never more memorably than in this episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. While taking an ocean voyage, chronic gambler William Botibol (Keenan Wynn) bets every penny to his name on a Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Lamb to the Slaughter

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This classic Emmy-nominated episode stars Barbara Bel Geddes as Mary Maloney, the wife of philandering police chief Patrick Maloney (played by former cowboy star Allan Lane, best known to TV fans as the voice of Mister Ed). When Patrick comes home to tell his wife that he is leaving her for Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: One More Mile to Go

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of the best of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents half-hours personally directed by Hitchcock himself, "One More Mile to Go" opens with a bitter argument between Sam Jacoby (David Wayne) and his wife Martha (Louise Larabee). Although the viewer is witnessing the quarrel from behind a window and Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Perfect Crime

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this delightfully macabre episode stars Vincent Price as Charles Courtney, a brilliant and pompous detective who takes pride in the fact that he has never made a wrong decision in his career. Courtney has celebrated this winning streak with a well-stocked trophy room Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: The third season of the suspense anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents broke with tradition by opening up with an episode not directed by series creator-host Alfred Hitchcock. Instead, Robert Stevens helmed the brilliant "The Glass Eye," which not only earned an Emmy award for Stevens but Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Wet Saturday

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season two of Alfred Hitchcock Presents begins with a droll but sinister little mood piece, directed by Hitchcock himself. Cedric Hardwicke heads the cast as wealthy and powerful Mr. Princey, whose daughter Millicent (Tita Purdom) has just finished murdering her faithless suitor. Determined to Read More

The Wrong Man

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper

Synopsis: Director Alfred Hitchcock lets us know from the outset that The Wrong Man is a painfully true story and not one of his customary fabricated suspense yarns, through the simple expedient of walking before the camera and telling us as much (this introductory appearance replaced his planned cameo role Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: As in its first season on CBS, season two of the suspense anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents opens with an episode directed by Hitchcock himself: "Wet Saturday," starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke as an aristocrat who tries to cover up a murder committed by his wastrelly son by framing someone else Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Back for Christmas

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Domineering Hermione Carpenter (Isobel Elsom) wants to take a trip to America and then return home to home to England for Christmas, but her henpecked husband Herbert (John Williams) has other ideas. Murdering Hermione, Herbert buries her in the cellar and heads to America on his own. He is smugly Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Mr. Blanchard's Secret

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Who better to direct an affectionate spoof of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 suspense classic Rear Window than Hitchcock himself? Babs Fenton (Mary Scott), a housewife with a highly fertile imagination, wonders just what is going on between Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard (Dayton Lummis, Meg Mundy) in the house Read More

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Daniel Gélin, Ralph Truman

Synopsis: The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own original 1934 version. This two-hour remake (45 minutes longer than the first film) features more stars, a lusher budget, and the plaintive music of Bernard Herrmann (who Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Case of Mr. Pelham

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Wealthy Walter Pelham (Tom Ewell) finds out that someone is going around impersonating him. Hoping to foil his "double," Pelham goes to great and strenuous lengths, changing his own appearance, his personal habits and quirks, and even his handwriting. Unfortunately, the impostor always seems to be Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents [TV Series]

Synopsis: The first major Hollywood film director to venture into the world of series television, Alfred Hitchcock hosted this long-running dramatic anthology, which was seen on two different networks for ten seasons beginning October 2, 1955. While Hitchcock's films were generally suspense thrillers or Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Season one of the long-running suspense anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents opens with one of the four half-hour episodes actually directed by Hitchcock this year: "Revenge," starring Vera Miles (who went on to appear in Hitch's theatrical features The Wrong Man and Psycho) as a traumatized rape Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Breakdown

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's second directorial effort for his popular suspense anthology is one of the series' best ever episodes. Joseph Cotten stars as William Callew, a hard-nosed and hard-hearted businessman who holds in contempt such human failings as sentiment, pity, and tears. While racing to keep Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Revenge

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock himself directed the first half-hour episode of his long-running suspense anthology. Heading the cast of Revenge is Ralph Meeker as aircraft worker Carl Spann and Vera Miles (The Wrong Man, Psycho) as Carl's ballerina wife Elsa. Having given up his job to care for Elsa after she Read More

The Trouble with Harry

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, Jerry Mathers

Synopsis: The trouble with Harry is that he's dead. The scene is a autumnal Vermont village, where a pre-Leave It to Beaver Jerry Mathers stumbles upon Harry's corpse in the woods. Mathers alerts his mother Shirley MacLaine (making her film debut), who recognizes Harry as her ex-husband. Later on, retired Read More

To Catch a Thief

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jesse Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel

Synopsis: A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant. Escaping the law, Grant heads to the Cote D'Azur, where he is greeted with hostility by his old partners in crime. All of them had been pardoned due to their courageous activities in the wartime Read More

Dial M for Murder

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson

Synopsis: Based on the popular mystery play by Frederick Knott, Dial M For Murder is more talky and stagebound than most Hitchcock films, but no less enjoyable. British tennis pro Ray Milland suspects that his wealthy wife Grace Kelly is fooling around with handsome American Robert Cummings. Milland Read More

Rear Window

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the Read More

I Confess

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O.E. Hasse

Synopsis: Based on the turn-of-the-century play Our Two Consciences by Paul Anthelme, Hitchcock's I Confess is set in Quebec. Montgomery Clift plays a priest who hears the confession of church sexton O.E. Hasse. "I...killed...a man" whispers Hasse in tight closeup--and, bound by the laws of the Read More

Strangers on a Train

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock

Synopsis: In one of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classics, tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) chances to meet wealthy wastrel Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) on a train. Having read all about Guy, Bruno is aware that the tennis player is trapped in an unhappy marriage to to wife Miriam (Laura Elliott) and Read More

Stage Fright

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Sr., Richard Todd, Kay Walsh

Synopsis: Stage Fright toys with our notions of the dividing line between reality and artifice by being set in the London theatre world. On the lam from the police, Richard Todd takes refuge in the home of his former girlfriend, RADA student Jane Wyman. Todd has been spotted fleeing the scene of a murder Read More

Under Capricorn

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Sr., Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Returning to his old Elstree Studios headquarters in England, Alfred Hitchcock did his best with Hume Cronyn's adaptation of the James Bridie novel Under Capricorn. Costume drama was never Hitchcock's forte, as proven by his disappointing Jamaica Inn (1939), but Capricorn does have its moments. Read More

Rope

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier

Synopsis: Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two implicitly homosexual college chums, pl