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Alfred Hitchcock

2012-01-17T21:58:03Z

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Alfred Hitchcock (13.8.1899 - 29.04.1980) was a British film director and producer.

Born in Leytonstone, London, England on August 13, 1899 to William, a fruit and vegetables retail trader, and Emma Jane, Alfred Hitchcock was the youngest of three children. He was raised catholic and attended catholic schools. His parents punished him for misbehaviour in rather unusual ways which later became a source of inspiration for movies like Psycho.

When he was 14 he started to attend a school for engineering in London and after graduating he became a draftsman and advertising designer. At this job he started to do creative work. Some of his short stories were published in the in-house newspaper of the company he worked for between 1919 and 1921. During this time he also became interested in film and photography. In 1920 he got a job as a title card designer for silent movies.

From then on he also started to make his own movies but most of his early projects flopped or were cancelled. Hitchcock also worked in Germany for a while filming with Graham Cutts The Blackguard. While in Germany he drew inspiration from F. W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. During his time there he also came in contact with Expressionism which became a big influence in his work.

His first hit was The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog which was released in January 1927. At the end of 1926 Hitchcock had married his assistant director Alma Reville and in 1928 he became the father of Patricia. In 1929 his film Blackmail became his first film with sound. It was one of the first British sound feature films. His next successful movies were The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938). In late 1939 Hitchcock was signed by David O. Selznick to a multi-year contract at Selznick International Pictures and moved to the United States with his family to produce and direct movies over there. His American career started in 1940 with Rebecca, which won a Best Picture Academy Award.

From then he directed several movies which are considered classics today like Rope, Strangers On a Train, Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo, North By Northwest and many others. Hitchcock died in Beverly Hills in 1980 and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.

Sources

Chandler, Charlotte. ''It's Only A Movie: Alfred Hitchcock : A Personal Biography''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_filmography

http://web.archive.org/web/20080519203756/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/awards_festivals/berlin/features/e3i1e0e186c138b9329812cc14639122aac

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/trivia

http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Ha-Ji/Hitchcock-Alfred.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/death-and-the-master-199904

McGilligan, Patrick. ''Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light''. New York: Harper Perennial, 2003.

Spoto, Donald. ''The Art of Alfred Hitchcock''. New York: Anchor Books, 1976–1992. p. 3

White, Rob and Buscombe, Edward. ''British Film Institute film classics'', Volume 1 p. 94. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers UK. 2003.

Alfred Hitchcock

2012-01-17T21:56:31Z

Retep:

Alfred Hitchcock (13.8.1899 - 29.04.1980) was a British film director and producer.

Born in Leytonstone, London, England on August 13, 1899 to William, a fruit and vegetables retail trader, and Emma Jane, Alfred Hitchcock was the youngest of three children. He was raised catholic and attended catholic schools. His parents punished him for misbehaviour in rather unusual ways which later became a source of inspiration for movies like Psycho.

When he was 14 he started to attend a school for engineering in London and after graduating he became a draftsman and advertising designer. At this job he started to do creative work. Some of his short stories were published in the in-house newspaper of the company he worked for between 1919 and 1921. During this time he also became interested in film and photography. In 1920 he got a job as a title card designer for silent movies.

From then on he also started to make his own movies but most of his early projects flopped or were cancelled. Hitchcock also worked in Germany for a while filming with Graham Cutts The Blackguard. While in Germany he drew inspiration from F. W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. During his time there he also came in contact with Expressionism which became a big influence in his work.

His first hit was The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog which was released in January 1927. At the end of 1926 Hitchcock had married his assistant director Alma Reville and in 1928 he became the father of Patricia. In 1929 his film Blackmail became his first film with sound. It was one of the first British sound feature films. His next successful movies were The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935)and The Lady Vanishes (1938). In late 1939 Hitchcock was signed by David O. Selznick to a multi-year contract at Selznick International Pictures and moved to the United States with his family to produce and direct movies over there. His American career started in 1940 with Rebecca, which won a Best Picture Academy Award.

From then he directed several movies which are considered classics today like Rope, Strangers On a Train, Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo, North By Northwest and many others. Hitchcock died in Beverly Hills in 1980 and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.

Sources

Chandler, Charlotte. ''It's Only A Movie: Alfred Hitchcock : A Personal Biography''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_filmography

http://web.archive.org/web/20080519203756/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/awards_festivals/berlin/features/e3i1e0e186c138b9329812cc14639122aac

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/trivia

http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Ha-Ji/Hitchcock-Alfred.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/death-and-the-master-199904

McGilligan, Patrick. ''Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light''. New York: Harper Perennial, 2003.

Spoto, Donald. ''The Art of Alfred Hitchcock''. New York: Anchor Books, 1976–1992. p. 3

White, Rob and Buscombe, Edward. ''British Film Institute film classics'', Volume 1 p. 94. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers UK. 2003.

Alfred Hitchcock

2012-01-17T21:51:30Z

Retep:

Alfred Hitchcock (13.8.1899 - 29.04.1980) was a British film director and producer.

Born in Leytonstone, London, England on August 13, 1899 to William, a fruit and vegetables retail trader, and Emma Jane, Alfred Hitchcock was the youngest of three children. He was raised catholic and attended catholic schools. His parents punished him for misbehaviour in rather unusual ways which later became a source of inspiration for movies like Psycho.

When he was 14 he started to attend a school for engineering in London and after graduating he became a draftsman and advertising designer. At this job he started to do creative work. Some of his short stories were published in the in-house newspaper of the company he worked for between 1919 and 1921. During this time he also became interested in film and photography. In 1920 he got a job as a title card designer for silent movies.

From then on he also started to make his own movies but most of his early projects flopped or were cancelled. Hitchcock also worked in Germany for a while filming with Graham Cutts The Blackguard. While in Germany he drew inspiration from F. W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. During his time there he also came in contact with Expressionism which became a big influence in his work.

His first hit was The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog which was released in January 1927. At the end of 1926 Hitchcock had married his assistant director Alma Reville and in 1928 he became the father of Patricia. In 1929 his film Blackmail became his first film with sound. It was one of the first British sound feature films. His next successful movies were The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935)and The Lady Vanishes (1938). In late 1939 Hitchcock was signed by David O. Selznick to a multi-year contract at Selznick International Pictures and moved to the United States with his family to produce and direct movies over there. His American career started in 1940 with Rebecca, which won a Best Picture Academy Award.

From then he directed several movies which are considered classics today like Rope, Strangers On a Train, Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo, North By Northwest and many others. Hitchcock died in Beverly Hills in 1980 and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.

Sources

Chandler, Charlotte. It's only a movie: Alfred Hitchcock : a personal biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_filmography

http://web.archive.org/web/20080519203756/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/awards_festivals/berlin/features/e3i1e0e186c138b9329812cc14639122aac

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/trivia

http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Ha-Ji/Hitchcock-Alfred.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/death-and-the-master-199904

McGilligan, Patrick: Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. New York: Harper Perennial, 2003.

Spoto, Donald. The Art of Alfred Hitchcock. New York: Anchor Books, 1976–1992. p. 3

White, Rob and Buscombe, Edward: British Film Institute film classics, Volume 1 p. 94. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers UK. 2003.

Alfred Hitchcock

2012-01-17T21:50:30Z

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Alfred Hitchcock (13.8.1899 - 29.04.1980) was a British film director and producer.

Born in Leytonstone, London, England on August 13, 1899 to William, a fruit and vegetables retail trader, and Emma Jane, Alfred Hitchcock was the youngest of three children. He was raised catholic and attended catholic schools. His parents punished him for misbehaviour in rather unusual ways which later became a source of inspiration for movies like Psycho.

When he was 14 he started to attend a school for engineering in London and after graduating he became a draftsman and advertising designer. At this job he started to do creative work. Some of his short stories were published in the in-house newspaper of the company he worked for between 1919 and 1921. During this time he also became interested in film and photography. In 1920 he got a job as a title card designer for silent movies.

From then on he also started to make his own movies but most of his early projects flopped or were cancelled. Hitchcock also worked in Germany for a while filming with Graham Cutts The Blackguard. While in Germany he drew inspiration from F. W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. During his time there he also came in contact with Expressionism which became a big influence in his work.

His first hit was The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog which was released in January 1927. At the end of 1926 Hitchcock had married his assistant director Alma Reville and in 1928 he became the father of Patricia. In 1929 his film Blackmail became his first film with sound. It was one of the first British sound feature films. His next successful movies were The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935)and The Lady Vanishes (1938). In late 1939 Hitchcock was signed by David O. Selznick to a multi-year contract at Selznick International Pictures and moved to the United States with his family to produce and direct movies over there. His American career started in 1940 with Rebecca, which won a Best Picture Academy Award.

From then he directed several movies which are considered classics today like Rope, Strangers On a Train, Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo, North By Northwest and many others. Hitchcock died in Beverly Hills in 1980 and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.

Sources
Chandler, Charlotte. It's only a movie: Alfred Hitchcock : a personal biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_filmography

http://web.archive.org/web/20080519203756/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/awards_festivals/berlin/features/e3i1e0e186c138b9329812cc14639122aac

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/trivia

http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Ha-Ji/Hitchcock-Alfred.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/death-and-the-master-199904

McGilligan, Patrick: Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. New York: Harper Perennial, 2003.

Spoto, Donald. The Art of Alfred Hitchcock. New York: Anchor Books, 1976–1992. p. 3

White, Rob and Buscombe, Edward: British Film Institute film classics, Volume 1 p. 94. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers UK. 2003.

Michael Collins

2011-12-07T21:40:16Z

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Michael Collins (1890-1922), Irish revolutionary leader and politician

He was born as the youngest of eight children near Clonakilty in Ireland in October of 1890. Collins was politically influence from an early age by local role models and teachers. He left school at the age of 15 and went to London to work and study.

During his college days there he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret society fighting for Irish independence from Britain. The first time he really was able to make a name for himself was during the Easter Rising in 1916 when he participated in fights against the British in Dublin. Like many other participants in the rising he was arrested, almost got executed and was imprisoned. Later he became a member of Sinn Féin, a nationalist party that became notorious after the rising. Collins soon became one of the leading figures of the party and was elected into the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Sinn Féin's elected MPs decided against going to Westminster and created the First Dáil, their own Irish parliament set in Dublin. In 1919 he became president of the IRB and was appointed the minister for finance and the same year the Irish war of Independence started.

In 1920 the British set up a bounty on Collins' head but he wasn't captured or killed. In 1921 a truce was signed by the two opposing sides which was fortunate for the Irish because the IRA was running out of money and weapons. In December the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed, creating the Irish Free State, an independent Irish country without the part that is Northern Ireland today. This didn't fare too well with members of the IRA and in 1922 the Irish Civil War broke out. The Pro-Anglo-Irish-Treaty nationalists with Michael Collins on their side were pitted against the nationalists who only wanted an Irish Republic made up of the whole island, including Northern Ireland.
During the Irish Civil War Collins was killed in a gun-fight near Béal na mBlath on August 22nd 1922. His grave is located in Dublin.

Sources
Coogan, Tim Pat. Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland. Palgrave Macmillan. London.2002

Mackay, James. Michael Collins: A Life. Mainstream Publishing. Edinburgh. 1997

--[[User:Retep|Retep]] 21:40, 7 December 2011 (UTC)