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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
Cinematographer
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Television Director
Television Producer
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
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