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Alfred Hitchcock was born on the 13th of August 1899 at 517 High Road in Leytonstone, Essex, in a flat above his parents' leased greengrocer's shop. He was the son of William Edgar Hitchcock and Emma Jane Hitchcock.
Hitchcock's directorial debut was The Pleasure Garden (1926), a co-production between Gainsborough Pictures and the German firm Emelka filmed near Munich. Although it was a commercial flop, producer Michael Balcon was impressed enough to commission further work.
Hitchcock's films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations in total, including six wins. He himself received five nominations for Best Director but never won that award, despite directing Rebecca, which won Best Picture at the 13th Academy Awards.
Psycho (1960) was the most profitable film of Hitchcock's career. Produced on a budget of $800,000, it broke box-office records in the United Kingdom, France, South America, the United States and Canada. Hitchcock personally earned in excess of $15 million from it.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents ran from 1955 to 1965, becoming The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1962. NBC broadcast the final episode on the 10th of May 1965. Hitchcock hosted and produced the series and directed 18 episodes himself.
In 2012, the British Film Institute's world-wide poll of hundreds of film critics ranked Vertigo (1958) as the greatest film ever made, displacing Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, which had held that position for decades. At the time of its release, Vertigo received mixed reviews and poor box-office receipts.