William Hitchcock, who retired in 1938, was a veteran of thirty-four years' local service.

Brooks ' style was generally slapstick and zany in nature, often parodying film styles and genres, including Universal horror films ( Young Frankenstein ), westerns ( Blazing Saddles ) and Hitchcock films ( High Anxiety ).

ClearType was invented in the Microsoft e-Books team by Bert Keely and Greg Hitchcock.

A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française (" the French Quality ") and was the manifesto for ' la politique des Auteurs ' which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann.

His grandson, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and was claimed by his mother to bear a strong resemblance to her father.

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

Lewis has long remained popular in Europe: he was consistently praised by some French critics in the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma for his absurd comedy, in part because he had gained respect as an auteur who had total control over all aspects of his films, comparable to Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.

Cotten was featured in Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Ronald W. Reagan's General Electric Theater.

After Pulp Fiction was completed, he then directed Episode Four of Four Rooms, " The Man from Hollywood ", a tribute to the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode that starred Steve McQueen.

His brother Francis Clere Hitchcock went on to join the British army and fought during World War I where he was awarded the Military Cross and rose to the rank of Colonel.

The X-Files was inspired by shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

Woodley's and Dobe Newton's song " I Am Australian ", which was recorded by the Seekers, and by Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem.

Hitchcock 2008 concludes that UNRRA was not perfect, for it was troubled by inefficiency, poor planning, shortages of supplies, and some incompetent personnel.

Alfred Hitchcock planned to base a Paramount movie on the book, but the project was never realized.

Leigh had hoped to co-star with Olivier and made a screen test for Rebecca, which was to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock with Olivier in the leading role.

In 1969, a plaque to Leigh was placed in the Actors Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden ; in 1985, a portrait of her was included in a series of postage stamps, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and David Niven to commemorate " British Film Year ".

By 1932, the Great Depression had forced studios to cut back on needless expense and it was not until 1953 that wider aspect ratios were again used in an attempt to stop the fall in attendance due, partially, to the emergence of television in the U. S. However, a few producers and directors, among them Alfred Hitchcock, have been reluctant to use the anamorphic widescreen size featured in such formats as Cinemascope.

Hitchcock was quick to bring in men closely allied with big business, which further alienated the progressive wing of the party.

After leaving Little House, she continued acting in television shows like The Equalizer, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Murder, She Wrote, and was the associate producer for the next to last TV project Michael Landon made before dying: Where Pigeons Go to Die ( 1990 ).

Alfred Hitchcock had quipped that he was " very happy that Grace has found herself such a good part.

* Alfred Hitchcock ( 1899 – 1980 ), " Hitch " was a popular nickname for him

Alfred Hitchcock had planned to direct Deneuve in a screen adaptation of the spy novel The Short Night, but by the time the project was ready to go into production, Hitchcock was unable to direct due to his poor health, and plans for the film were scrapped.

Alfred Hitchcock had agreed to do a film for MGM, and they had chosen an adaptation of the novel The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes.

Henry Hitchcock was elected the first Attorney General of Alabama, and Thomas A. Rogers was elected and John W. Walker were chosen as the first U. S. Senators.

Young and Innocent ( U. S. title: The Girl Was Young ) is a 1937 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney and John Longden.

Category: Films directed by Alfred Hitchcock

It went on to become a silent movie of the same name, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and filmed in 1927.

Hitchcock primarily made thrillers, which, according to the Cahiers du cinema crowd, were popular with the public but were dismissed by the critics and the award ceremonies, although Hitchcock's Rebecca won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards.

* Most notably, the rights to four Paramount films directed by Alfred Hitchcock – Rear Window ( 1954 ), The Trouble With Harry ( 1956 ), The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ), and Vertigo ( 1958 ) were owned by the director himself.

* Following Hitchcock's death, Universal, which had previously purchased the rights to Psycho ( 1960 ), eventually acquired the distribution rights to the four other films ( along with a former WB feature, Rope ) in 1983 from the Hitchcock estate ( which still holds all other ancillary rights to these films — the estate is overseen by his daughter, Patricia );

* The Ring, a 1927 film by Alfred Hitchcock

The Padres went on to defeat the Houston Astros in the 1998 NLDS, 3 games to 1, behind solid pitching by Brown, Sterling Hitchcock and Hoffman, and home runs by Greg Vaughn, Wally Joyner and Jim Leyritz ( who homered in 3 of the 4 games ).

Raimi occasionally appears on-screen in his own movies, usually in similar fashion to the cameos made by his idol Alfred Hitchcock: A silhouette behind a projection screen ( Spider-Man, in the wrestling scene ), a passer-by with some kind of physical interaction with the film's protagonist ( Spider-Man 2, as the student whose bookbag hits Peter Parker in the back of the head ), a hitchhiking fisherman accompanied by Robert Tapert in The Evil Dead.

After viewing Leigh's screen test, Selznick noted that " she doesn't seem right as to sincerity or age or innocence ", a view shared by Hitchcock and Leigh's mentor, George Cukor.

* Secret Agent ( 1936 ) with John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Hitchcock alternatively used VistaVision, a non-anamorphic widescreen process developed by Paramount Pictures and Technicolor which could be adjusted to present various flat aspect ratios .< ref >

Taft also showed his political ineptness by choosing Frank Hitchcock to be Chairman of the Republican Party.

It has been covered by other artists including Sting, Bobby Darin, Jose Feliciano, The Fall, Neil Young, Jeff Beck, The Bee Gees, Robyn Hitchcock, Chris Cornell, Phish and since 2008, by McCartney in his live performances.

The album was produced by Peter Dawkins ( Spectrum, Ross Ryan ) with Air Supply line-up as Hitchcock, Paul, Russell and drummer Jeff Browne, guitarist Mark McEntee and keyboardist, arranger Adrian Scott.

Regarding the Center for the Study of White American Culture ( CSWAC ), a think tank for Whiteness Studies, Kay cited CSWAC co-founder and executive director Jeff Hitchcock, who stated in a 1998 speech:

Next, Landis directed Into the Night, starring Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer and David Bowie ( a film was inspired by Hitchcock productions ; Landis played in this film a mute member of the quartet of Iranian hitmen ).

Following that season, he was acquired in a trade by the New York Yankees, along with Jeff Nelson and Jim Mecir, for Sterling Hitchcock and Russ Davis.

Rick Ankiel, Magglio Ordóñez, Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonilla, Bernie Williams, Andy Pettitte, Albert Pujols, Coco Crisp, Braden Looper, Brad Ausmus, Jorge Posada, Kevin Maas, Hensley Meulens, Gerald Williams, Edwin Encarnacion, Jack Wilson, Dimitri Young, Dan Haren, Carmen Cali, John Smiley, Scott Kamieniecki, José Lind, Jeff King, Félix Fermín, Mike Cameron, Sterling Hitchcock, Joey Votto, John Lannan, Justin Maxwell, Josh Whitesell, Danny Espinosa, and Ross Detwiler.

His other appearances include: Wagon Train ( three times ), The Adventures of Kit Carson ( twice as Henry Jordan ), the Western anthology series Frontier ( twice ), Sheriff of Cochise, Pony Express, Behind Closed Doors, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, Trackdown, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Tombstone Territory, Whispering Smith, The Twilight Zone (" The Grave ", " The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank ," and " Jess-Belle "), Wanted: Dead or Alive, Overland Trail, Bat Masterson, The Rebel ( TV series ), Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Man and the Challenge, Combat, The Mod Squad ), I Spy, Perry Mason, The Incredible Hulk, The Fugitive (" Terror At High Point "), Stagecoach West, and In the Heat of the Night.