Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock,( 13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Known as" the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology" Alfred Hitchcock Presents"( 1955 – 1965).
His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph- cable company.
He made his directorial debut with the silent film" The Pleasure Garden"( 1925).
His first successful film,( 1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film," Blackmail", was the first British.
Two of his 1930s thrillers," The 39 Steps"( 1935) and" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century.
By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood.
A string of successful films followed, including" Rebecca"( 1940)," Foreign Correspondent"( 1940)," Suspicion"( 1941)," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943), and" Notorious"( 1946).
" Rebecca" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for" Lifeboat"( 1944) and" Spellbound"( 1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award.
The" Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear.
The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film" is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot.
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."
After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with" Strangers on a Train"( 1951) and" Dial M For Murder"( 1954).
By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time:" Rear Window"( 1954)," Vertigo"( 1958)," North by Northwest"( 1959), and" Psycho"( 1960) with the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations.
In 2012," Vertigo" replaced Orson Welles's" Citizen Kane"( 1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world- wide poll of hundreds of film critics.
By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943).
He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died.
Claude Weisz
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Hartley Lobban
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Harry Ivarson
Harry Ivarson( September 7, 1892 – 1967) was a Norwegian film director and screenwriter.
Ivarson was born in Chicago, the son of the actor William Ivarson and actress Anna Ivarson.
In addition to Harry, the couple had a son Wictor( born in 1893) and a daughter Borghild( born in 1895).
In 1910 the family lived in Årstad.
Ivarson studied film in the United States and Germany.
He debuted as a director and screenwriter in Germany in 1923 with the film" Wenn Männer richten" under the pseudonym Harry Williams.
He continued his career in Norway with the films" Til sæters"( 1924)," Fager er lien"( 1925)," Simen Mustrøens besynderlige opplevelser"( 1926)," Madame besøker Oslo"( 1927), and" Den glade enke i Trangvik"( 1927), which was his last silent film.
In the 1930s, Ivarson switched to sound films, and together with Per Aabel he directed" Jeppe på bjerget" in 1933.
He directed his last film in 1943, the documentary" Bergen".
Ivarson was the head of the NRK office in Bergen during the Second World War.
Fager er lien
Fager er lien( Fair Is the Hillside) is a Norwegian romantic silent film from 1925 directed by Harry Ivarson( his second feature film after his debut with" Til sæters" in 1924).
Ivarson also wrote the screenplay.
The film belongs to the national romantic period of the 1920s.
The title is a reference to the thirteenth- century" Njáls saga".
Before the film was released, six meters of footage showing dancing were edited out.
The film is now considered lost.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Erling Eriksen
Erling Eriksen( January 19, 1878 – 1957) was a Norwegian film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
Eriksen was born in Kristiania( now Oslo).
He directed his only film, the comedy" Kjærlighet paa pinde", in 1922, for which he also wrote the screenplay.
In 1925 he produced Harry Ivarson's film" Fager er lien".
Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano.
It stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.
The film centers on an encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane( Leigh), who ends up at a secluded motel after stealing money from her employer, and the motel's owner- manager, Norman Bates( Perkins), and its aftermath.
" Psycho" was seen as a departure from Hitchcock's previous film" North by Northwest", having been filmed on a low budget, in black- and- white, and by a television crew.
The film initially received mixed reviews, but outstanding box- office returns prompted critical reevaluation.
" Psycho" was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Leigh and Best Director for Hitchcock.
" Psycho" is now considered one of Hitchcock's best films and praised as a major work of cinematic art by international film critics and scholars.
Often ranked among the greatest films of all time, it set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior and sexuality in American films, and is widely considered to be the earliest example of the slasher film genre.
After Hitchcock's death in 1980, Universal Studios began producing follow- ups: three sequels, a remake, a made- for- television spin- off, and a prequel television series set in the 2010s.
In 1992, the Library of Congress deemed the film" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Didi Holtermann
Didi Holtermann( born" Dagny Borghild Ivarson", November 28, 1895 – December 17, 1975) was a Norwegian actress.
Holtermann was born in Kristiania( now Oslo).
She had her film debut in 1922 in Amund Rydland's" Farende folk", in which she played the role of Veronika.
In 1924 she appeared in" Til sæters", in 1925 in" Fager er lien", and in 1926 in" Simen Mustrøens besynderlige opplevelser", which was her last film.
Didi Holtermann was married to the actor Magnus Falkberget.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
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Question: Which film has the director born first, Psycho (1960 Film) or Fager Er Lien?
Answer: Fager Er Lien