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Born Alfred Joseph Hitchcock in 1899 in Leytonstone, London, Hitchcock grew up to be the most famous director ever raised in the United Kingdom. Hitchcock could also lay claim to be one of the greatest film directors in the world. Hitchcock molded and transformed the narrative thriller film from the early days of the silent feature film, with The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, through the introduction of sound (Blackmail), in black and white classics such as Notorious and Spellbound, and on to his glory years in Hollywood making such Technicolor masterworks as Vertigo, The Birds and Marine. The facts about Hitchcock are as compelling as his movies.