Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock's silent films brought to life

Alfred Hitchcock has gone down in movie history as a chatty fellow, the roguish filmmaker and droll TV host gleefully impersonated by Anthony Hopkins in last fall's "Hitchcock." But the British-born master of suspense began his career in the era when movies were mute, save for intertitles and musical accompaniment, and was one of the most accomplished directors of that era. Ref. Source 8