bio on hitchcock

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in the East London area of Leytonstone. He was the youngest son of William and Emma Whelan Hitchcock. His strict Irish Catholic upbringing and education at the Jesuits’ St. Iganatius College is apparent in many of his films. At the young age of 16, he left to study engineering and navigation at the University of London. Three years later he was hired as an estimator at Henley Telegraph Company. Hitchcock began …

…Murder was The Skin Game (1931) which Hitchcock did not make by choice and showed very little affection for. His next work was an original script by his wife Alma, Rich and Strange (1932). The film involves a married couple a bit bored with their everyday routine. To their surprise they are left an inheritance in which they use to travel around the world. After many entanglements and deceptive affairs they return to their same home life.