Topic > A Brief Biography of Alfred Hitchcock - 575

Movies have been an exciting new form of entertainment from their debut in the early 1900s to today, the motion picture business had a period of growth in the 1920s. It was a time when films came and went rapidly and films that had no pretensions to being art were made en masse. During this period of rapid changes in the film production industry, a certain aspiring director began his dream of working with cinema. Ultimately, the talented and mysterious director, Alfred Hitchcock, played an important role in making his and others' masterpieces into art. Born on August 13, 1899, Hitchcock's family was a lower-class Roman Catholic family who attended church regularly. His parents were greengrocers, William and Emma Hitchcock. A stern man, William once told five-year-old Albert to go to the police station with a note from his father after getting into some trouble. After reading the note, a sergeant placed young Alfred in a cell and left him there for ten minutes. The cop returned only to tell him, “This is what happens to bad kids.” This story and Hitchcock's Roman Catholic background made up the th...