[80] Alma Reville, Joan Harrison, Alfred Hitchcock, and Patricia Hitchcock left to right , 24 August 1937 Hitchcock released two spy thrillers in 1936.
Away from his day job, he also developed passions for art history, painting and the cinema, especially films starring comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
In 1978 described him as "the most universally recognizable person in the world" and "a straightforward middle-class Englishman who just happened to be an artistic genius".