Director information
Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese.
Alfred Hitchcock was born on 13 August 1899 and died 29 April 1980. At the beginning of his career he was very sucessful with his silent films and early talkies in the united Kingdom but then moved to Hollywood and in 1956 he was an american citizen. Hitchcock sucess included his fifty feture films within his six decade career.
As Hitchcocks career was launching he was inspired by may other films and directors. As he worked with F.W Murnau with his films he was impressed with his techniques and then used some in his own productions. Hitchcock also said that he was infulenced by Fritz Lang's film, Destiny (1921).
Hitchcock had a few problems when his career first was lanched as some of his productions did not succeed such as Number 13 which had finanical problems. He then directed a drama called mountain Eagle but this was lost. His career got increasingly better as he made his first thriller called The Lodger: A story of the London frog in 1927. Hitchcock was very sucessful from then on and made the following films.

Alfred Hitchcocks films
British silent films
Number13 (1922), Always tell your wife (1923), The pleasure garden (1925), The mountain Eagle (1926), The lodger : A story of the London fog. (1927), The ring (1927), Downhill (1927), The farmers wife (1928), Easy virtue (1928), Champagne (1928), The Manxman (1929), Blackmail (silent version) (1929).





British sound films
Blackmail (1930), Juno and the Paycock (1930), Murder! (1930), Elstree Calling (1931), The Skin Game (1931), Mary (1931), Rich and Strange (1932), Number Seventeen (1933), Waltzes from Vienna (1934), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1935), The 39 Steps (1936), Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1937), Young and Innocent (1938), The Lady Vanishes (1939), Jamaica Inn (1939).





Hollwood films
-Rebecca 1940, Foreign Correspondent 1940, Mr. & Mrs. Smith 1941, Suspicion 1941,Saboteur 1942, Shadow of Doubt 1943,Lifeboat 1944, Aventure Malgache 1944, Bon Voyage 1944, Spellbound 1945, Notorious 1946, The Paradine Case 1947, Rope 1948, Under Capricorn 1949, Stage Fright (1950), Stangers on a train (1953), I confess (1953), Dial M for murder (1954), Rear window (1954), To catch a thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955),
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), The Wrong Man (1956), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972), Family Plot (1976).

Martin Scorsese:
Martin Scorsese was born on 17th November 1942 and is an American film diector,
screenwriter, producer, actor and film historian.

Martin Scorsese attended New york university's film school and achieved an Bachelors degree in 1964 and master of fine arts in 1966. which he made the short films What's a nice girl doing in a place like this? (1963), It's Not just you, Murray! (1964). His most famous Short of the period is his film The big shave (1967), which featured an unnamed man who shaves himself until profusely bleeding, ultimately slitting his own throat with his razor. The film is an indictment of America's involvement in Vietnam.
Also in 1967, Scorsese made his first feature-length film, the black and white I Call First, which was later retitled Whos that knocking at my door? With fellow student actor Harvey Keitel, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, both of whom were to become long-term collaborators

Through the 1970's, 80's and 90's Martin Scorsese made a number of different films they are shown below.

1970's film's.

• Mean Streets
• Taxi Driver
• New york, New york and The last waltz.
  

1980's film's.

• Raging Bull
• The king of comedy
• After hours
• The colour of money
• The last temptation of christ

1990's film's.

• Goodfellas


• Cape fear
• The Age of innocence
• Casino
• A personal Journey with martin Scorsese Through American movies.
• Kundun
• Bringing out the dead.

2000's film's.

• Gangs of Newyork
• The Aviator
• No direction home
• The Departed
• Shine a light
• Shutter island.