Alfred Hitchcock
A director who took suspense apart into technique and built half a century of cinema on it: Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window. He made more than fifty pictures without once winning an Oscar for direction, and appeared briefly in almost every one of them.
Born in Leytonstone, London, on 13 August 1899 at 03:00 GMT. The hour is given consistently in references.