Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was an English film director and producer. After a successful career in British cinema with both silent films and early talkies, he was renowned as England's best director. Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955.
Hitchcock fashioned himself a recognisable directorial style. His stylistic trademarks include the use of camera movement that mimics a person's gaze. In addition, he framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative forms of film editing. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of murder and other violence. Many of the mysteries, however, are used as decoys that serve the films' themes and the psychological examinations of their characters. Through interviews, movie trailers, cameo appearances in his own films, and the ten years in which he hosted the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he became a highly visible public figure.
The Birds is a 1963 horror thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier, It focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California.
