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He worked in the film industry from 1919 to 1976 and directed 18 episodes of the TV shows bearing his name. He was nominated for five Best Director Oscars, winning none. His personal favourite of his own features was the witty, wonderful and characteristically macabre Shadow of a Doubt (1943). We remember the incomparable Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899-1980), Master of Suspense (among other things), born in Leytonstone on this day.