126 years ago today, August 13, 1899 (July 8, 1899 in the lunar calendar) was the birthday of the famous British film director Hitchcock. What is the master suspense plotting with his cat lover? Hitchcock was born in London on August 13, 1899. In his early years, he studied at St. Ignatius's College in London and advanced to the Engineering and Navigation School, where he studied mechanics, electricity, power and navigation. At the age of 19, he worked at the Telegraph Company and also studied art courses at the University of London. He entered the film industry in 1920. He started as a subtitle designer and later directed shooting scenes without dialogue. In 1922, he became an assistant director, concurrently as a screenwriter and artistic director, and filmed "Woman to Woman"(1923),"Villain"(1925) and other films. In 1925, he was promoted to director and filmed "Happy Garden", but he believed that his third film "The Tenant" was his first effective work. From then on, he began to shoot the "thriller" that made him famous. Donald Spoto, the litterateur who biographed Hitchcock, said: "At lunch with Hitchcock, we talked about imitation, and he would shrug his shoulders and smile and say,'Let's talk about something else.' Hitchcock didn't pay much attention to most of the films of his contemporaries because he was already very busy creating his own art." His influence comes from both art and life. Hitchcock was born in London, only a few years after movies were released. Hitchcock started watching movies when he was a teenager and has even been tracking newspapers and magazines related to the film industry. Around that time, he read some detective novels and thrillers, especially the works of Poe. Hitchcock once commented: "It's probably because I was so immersed in Poe's works that I later created many suspense stories myself. The story that Xiang tells readers is simply unbelievable, but the fascinating rigor of the narrative creates the impression that the same thing will probably happen to you tomorrow. In 1920, Hitchcock's talent for sketching led him to a job designing subtitle cards at an American film company's London studio. He soon met a promising editor and curator, Alma Revell, and eventually married him. Although people only associate Alma with Hitchcock's success by chance, she became Hitchcock's most trusted partner, and "Alma liked this film" was the highest praise for Hitchcock. Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell, daughter of Hitchcock and Almagh, who starred in "The Stranger on the Train" and other Hitchcock works, said: "My father would take home the script he found and show it to my mother, and if she thought it would make a great book, everything would be fine. If she gave a negative opinion, then my father would never touch it." From silent films such as "The Tenant" and "The Ring" to talkies such as "A Man Who Knows Too Much" and "Thirty-Nine Steps", Hitchcock has gradually become an internationally renowned director. In the late 1930s, producer David Selznick brought him to the United States, where Hitchcock continued to make some of his most influential films, including "Rear Window","Vertigo" and "Psychiatric". For years, he has been considered a popular entertainment film director (he himself said so). But in the 1950s, Truffaut and other French critics developed the theory of "film directors (with their own unique style)", interpreting films as the director's personal imagination. In August 1999, a jury composed of the world's most prominent film directors had made the choice of "Psychiatric" as Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece. Directors including Martin Scorsese of Hollywood and Buzz Lurman of Australia were invited by British magazine Picture and Sound to select Hitchcock's most outstanding films to commemorate the director's centenary birthday. "Psychiatric", the gruesome story of Norman Bates and his mother in a spooky motel, beat out "Vertigo" and other films for top spot. "Throughout the 1960s and 1970s,'Psychiatric' was seen as a gory film by a director who liked sensationalism," said Nick James, editor of Picture and Sound magazine. "In recent years, it has become an extremely admired work. Each picture is extremely gorgeous and is considered to be probably the most influential film made since Citizen Kane." On April 29, 1980, Hitchcock passed away in Los Angeles, USA. Hitchcock has been classified as one of the world's greatest filmmakers. 1960 Hitchcock coached actors on set. 1967 Hitchcock won an Oscar. Hitchcock was with Princess Grace (right) and his wife Alma at the film festival. Hitchcock shared the joy of family life with his wife Alma and daughter Patricia