Yet another thriller director

Alfred Hitchcock:
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born 13th August 1899. He was a British film maker and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspence and psychological thriller genres.
After silent movies and talkies, he moved to Hollywood in 1956.

The suspence ad the gallours humour that had become Hitchcock's trademark in film, cotinued to appear in his productions. Near the end of his life he worked on the script for a period spy thriller, The Short Night, collaborating with screen writes James Costigan and Ernest Lehman. The story was never filmed due to his failing health and cocerns fr his wife, this meant that it was finally published posthumously, in a book of Hitchcock's last years.
He died 29th April 1980 and was cremated. His ashes were scattered at sea.