Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Alfred Hitchcock: Film & TV List


For decades the Master of Suspense had movie audiences riveted on the edge of their seats, all the while, pioneering many of the visual and storytelling techniques cinematographers, scriptwriters, and directors use today. Although Alfred Hitchcock is considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, his early contributions to the film industry exhibited very little of the artistic license we've come to associate him with in his later and superior works. They did, however, provide the British filmmaker an excellent training ground and opened further opportunities. The ambitious director eventually achieved commercial success in 1927 with his very first thriller, The Lodger, which proved to be a sign of things to come. As Hitchcock's distinctive style of filmmaking began to mature, the intricate use of frames to enhance the psychological profiles of the characters, the voyeuristic camera work, and the frequent use of the 'McGuffin' as a plot-moving device, all came to define the 'Hitchcockian' film. Despite having made numerous cameos in many of his films, it wasn't until Hitchcock hosted the popular television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962) that he truly reached the peak of the public's consciousness and became a cultural icon. Today, when we think of the great Alfred Hitchcock, his gallows humour and unmistakable profile immediately come to mind. Also, as a result of the successful TV show, we cannot help but associate Charles Gounod's musical composition 'Funeral March for a Marionette' with Hitchcock.


Appearances (1921) -- as title cards designer; lost film
The Bonnie Brier Bush (1921) -- as title cards designer; lost film
The Call of Youth (1921) -- as title cards designer; lost film
Dangerous Lies (1921) -- as title cards designer; lost film
The Great Day (1921) -- as title cards designer; lost film
The Mystery Road (1921) -- as title cards designer; lost film
The Princess of New York (1921) -- as title cards designer; lost film
Love's Boomerang (a.k.a. Perpetua) (1922) -- as title cards designer; lost film
The Man from Home (1922) -- as title cards designer; lost film
Number 13 (a.k.a. Mrs. Peabody) (1922) -- directorial debut; unfinished film; all footage is lost
The Spanish Jade (1922) -- as title cards designer; lost film
Tell Your Children (a.k.a. Protect Your Daughter; Reckless Decision) (1922) -- as title cards designer; lost film
Three Live Ghosts (1922) -- as title cards designer
Always Tell Your Wife (1923) -- uncredited as co-director; half of the film is lost
Woman to Woman (1923) -- as writer; lost film
The Passionate Adventure (1924) -- as writer
The Prude's Fall (a.k.a. Dangerous Virtue) (1924) -- as writer; partially lost
The White Shadow (a.k.a. White Shadows) (1924) -- as assistant director, writer, editor, and set designer; only half of the film survives
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
Die Prinzessin und der Geiger (a.k.a. The Blackguard) (1925) -- as writer
The Mountain Eagle (a.k.a. Fear o' God) (1926) -- lost film
Downhill (a.k.a. When Boys Leave Home) (1927)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
The Ring (1927)
Champagne (1928) 
Easy Virtue (1928)
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Blackmail (1929)
Juno and the Paycock (a.k.a. The Shame of Mary Boyle) (1929)
The Manxman (1929)
An Elastic Affair (1930) -- lost short film
Elstree Calling (1930) -- directed a segment
Murder! (1930)
Mary (1931)
Rich and Strange (a.k.a. East of Shanghai) (1931)
The Skin Game (1931)
Lord Camber's Ladies (1932) -- as producer
Number Seventeen (a.k.a. Number 17) (1932) 
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Waltzes from Vienna (a.k.a. Strauss' Great Waltz) (1934)
Sanders of the River (1935) -- directed part of the film
The 39 Steps (1935) 
Sabotage (1936)
Secret Agent (1936)
Young and Innocent (a.k.a. The Girl Was Young) (1937)
The Lady Vanishes (1938) 
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Men of the Lightship (1940) -- editor of U.S. version; documentary short
Rebecca (1940)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Target for Tonight (1941) -- editor of US version; documentary short
Picture People No. 10: Hollywood at Home (1942) -- appearance; documentary; lost film
Saboteur (1942)
Forever and a Day (a.k.a. The Changing World) (1943) -- as one of the writers
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Show-Business at War (a.k.a. The March of Time Volume IX, Issue 10) (1943) -- appearance; documentary
Aventure Malgache (1944) -- short film
Bon Voyage (1944) -- short film
The Fighting Generation (1944) -- documentary short
Lifeboat (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945) -- uncredited as one of the directors; lost short film
Notorious (1946)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Rope (1948) 
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Lux Video Theatre: 'To Each His Own' (a.k.a. Summer Video Theatre) (1954) -- guest appearance; TV series episode
Rear Window (1954)
What's My Line?: 'September 12' (1954) -- guest appearance; TV game-show episode
The Red Skelton Show: 'Look Magazine Movie Awards Show' (1955) -- appearance; TV series episode
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962) -- as host; TV series
Cinépanorama: 'July 27' (1956) -- appearance; TV documentary series episode
Lux Video Theatre: 'The Night of January Sixteenth' (a.k.a. Summer Video Theatre) (1956) -- guest appearance; TV series episode
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Suspicion (1957-1959) -- as executive producer; TV series
Vertigo (1958) 
North by Northwest (1959)
Tactic: 'unknown episode' (1959) -- appearance; TV series episode
Psycho (1960)
Ford Startime: 'Incident at a Corner' (a.k.a. Lincoln-Mercury Startime; Startime) (1960) -- TV series episode
Alcoa Premiere: 'The Jail' (1962) -- as executive producer; TV series episode
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962-1965) -- as host; TV series
The Birds (1963)
CBS: The Stars' Address (1963) -- appearance; TV special
Marnie (1964)
Monitor: 'Huw Wheldon Meets Alfred Hitchcock' (1964) -- appearance; TV documentary series episode
Telescope: 'A Talk with Hitchcock' (1964) -- appearance; TV documentary series episode
Cinema: 'Alfred Hitchcock' (1966) -- appearance; TV documentary series episode
Today: 'July 6' (a.k.a. NBC News Today; The Today Show) (1966) -- appearance; TV news episode
Torn Curtain (1966)
The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968) -- appearance; TV special
Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969) -- appearance; documentary
London Aktuell: 'Episode #1.1' (1969) -- appearance; TV documentary series episode
The Mike Douglas Show: 'December 30' (1969) -- appearance; TV series episode
Topaz (1969)
The Dick Cavett Show: 'June 8' (1970) -- appearance; TV series episode
Samedi Soir: 'January 16' (1971) -- appearance; TV series episode
Aquarius: 'Alfred the Great' (1972) -- appearance; TV series episode
Camera Three: 'The Illustrated Alfred Hitchcock: Part 1' (1972) -- appearance; TV series episode
Camera Three: 'The Illustrated Alfred Hitchcock: Part 2' (1972) -- appearance; TV series episode
The Dick Cavett Show: 'Alfred Hitchcock' (1972) -- appearance; TV series episode
Film Night: 'The Master of Suspense' (1972) -- appearance; TV series episode
Frenzy (1972)
V.I.P. - Schaukel: 'Episode #2.4' (1972) -- appearance; TV documentary series episode
The Men Who Made the Movies: 'Alfred Hitchcock' (1973) -- appearance; TV documentary special
The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974) -- appearance; TV special
The Tomorrow Show: 'December 24' (a.k.a. Tomorrow Coast to Coast) (1974) -- appearance; TV series
The Elstree Story (1976) -- appearance; TV special
Family Plot (1976)
La Nuit des Césars: '2ème Nuit des Césars' (1977) -- appearance; TV documentary series episode
The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1977) -- appearance; TV special
CBS: On the Air (1978) -- appearance; mini-series
NBC: The First Fifty Years - A Closer Look, Part Two (1978) -- appearance; documentary
The American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock (a.k.a. AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock) (1979) -- appearance; TV special
The American Film Institute Salute to James Stewart (a.k.a. AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Stewart) (1980) -- appearance; TV special
Memory of the Camps (1985) -- as editor; previously unreleased documentary made in 1945
Gas (2006) -- based on a 1919 story written by Alfred Hitchcock, which was never used