Alfred Hitchcock.

Alfred Hitchcock.

Sir Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer. He used many techniques in the suspense and psychological thirller genres. After a successful in British cinema, not only silent films and some early sound films, he took the title of the best British director, then Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955. Over a career that has been going for half a century, Hitchcock fasioned ofr himself a distinctive directional style so when a film was played you could tell it's directed by Hitchcock.

Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings, and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, crime and murder. He used decoys or 'MacGuffins' that serve the films theme of being psychological examinations of the characters. Hitchcocks films also borrow many themes for psychoanalysis and feature some strong sexual overtones. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career going on for six decades, often regarded as the all time greatest British filmmaker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britian's Daily Telegraph. He was such a big infulenece to the thriller genre he was nicknames 'The Master of Suspense'.