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Alfred Hitchcock Timeline - 1951-Present |
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| 1951 | ||||
| – Hitchcock makes Strangers on a Train, his first collaboration with cinematographer Robert Burks who will go on to shoot all but one of Hitchcock's remaining films. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1953 | ||||
| 25/9 - | Completes filming his adaptation of the stage play Dial M for Murder, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1954 | ||||
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29/5 - |
Dial M for Murder, his last film for Warner Bros., is released. Filmed in 3D, it is released in a ‘flat’ version. [MORE] [ADD] |
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1/8 - |
Rear Window, in which James Stewart plays a photographer with a broken leg who observes his neighbours from his apartment window, is released. When he witnesses what he believes to be a murder, Stewart puts himself and girlfriend Grace Kelly in danger to prove himself right. Thelma Ritter, Cameron Mitchell and Raymond Burr support. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – Is nominated for Best Director for the fourth time in his career for Rear Window. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1955 | ||||
| – 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' TV series debuts on CBS. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1956 | ||||
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Remake of his own 1934 British thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much is released. The action is shifted from Switzerland to Morocco, and stars James Stewart and Doris Day. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – Becomes an American citizen while retaining his British citizenship. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1957 | ||||
| – In France, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol publish the first book-length study of Hitchcock. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1958 | ||||
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9/5 - |
Vertigo, shot on location in San Francisco in VistaVision, is released. The film stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, who both give superb performances in one of Hitchcock’s most psychologically complex thrillers. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1959 | ||||
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6/8 - |
North by Northwest, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1960 | ||||
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16/6 - |
His horror classic Psycho, ‘a new – and altogether different screen excitement’ – is released by Paramount. Made on a low budget for Universal, Hitchcock disposes of his leading lady one-third of the way through the film, and practically relates the entire plot in the film’s trailer. Anthony Perkins gives a memorable performance as Norman ‘A boy’s best friend is his mother’ Bates, son of the owner of the Bates Motel. The proviso that nobody is allowed to enter the cinema after the screening has begun marks the beginning of the end for continuous screenings in cinemas. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – Receives his fifth and final Best Director nomination for the low-budget horror thriller Psycho. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1963 | ||||
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28/3 - |
His adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds is released. Written by Evan Hunter, the film, in which birds terrorise the inhabitants of a small community, stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – trades in his rights to Psycho and his television series in return for 150,000 shares in Universal Studios. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1964 | ||||
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22/7 - |
Marnie is released. Sean Connery makes his US film debut as a man attempting to solve the mysteries of the title character, a man-hating kleptomaniac played by Tippi Hedren (in a part originally intended for Grace Kelly) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1965 | ||||
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13/8 - |
Hitchcock and French director François Truffaut agree to an ambitious book project in which they will discuss and analyse Hitchcock’s entire film output from the 20s to the present day. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1966 | ||||
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14/7 - |
Torn Curtain, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – After making eight consecutive films together, Hitchcock fires music composer Bernard Hermann from the film Torn Curtain. They neither work together nor speak to each other again. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1968 | ||||
| – Receives an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award at the Academy Awards ceremony. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1969 | ||||
| – Universal persuades Hitchcock to make the unsuccessful spy thriller Topaz instead of the the experimental film Kaleidoscope that he had planned to make. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1972 | ||||
| – Playwright Anthony Schaffer writes the screenplay for Frenzy after Vladimir Nabokov declines Hitchcock's original request. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1976 | ||||
| – Has a pacemaker fitted shortly before beginning filming of Frenzy, his final film. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1978 | ||||
| – Begins work on The Short Night, but due to his declining health, filming never takes place. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1979 | ||||
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7/3 - |
The American Film Institute presents Hitchcock with its Life Achievement Award at a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel attended by, amongst others, Cary Grant, Jane Wyman, James Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, producer Sidney Bernstein and studio head Lew Wasserman, and French director François Truffaut. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1980 | ||||
| 1/1 - | – Made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 29/4 - | Dies of renal failure at his Bel Air home. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 2010 | ||||
| Jul - | The British Film Institute launches a campaign to rescue nine of Hitchcock's early films: The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Lodger (1926), The Ring, Downhill, Easy Virtue, The Farmer's Wife (all 1927), Champagne (1928), The Manxman, and Blackmail (both 1929). It also instigates a search for the 1926 film The Mountain Eagle, his only missing film. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 2011 | ||||
| 19/1 - | Director Sacha Gervasi is reported to be in the early stages of talks to write and direct a biopic about Hitchcock titled Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, with Anthony Hopkins slated to play the director. [ADD] | |||
| 8/2 - | John and Jez Butterworth are reported to be working on the script for a remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much aimed at teens. [ADD] | |||
| 3/8 - |
The opening three reels of The White Shadow (1923), Alfred Hitchcock’s first film, are discovered at the New Zealand Film Archive. Left there by the family of a projectionist and film collector following his death in 1989, the film remained unidentified for more than 20 years. [ADD] |
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