Pat Hitchcock

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Patricia Hitchcock
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Hitchcock in 1996
Born
Patricia Alma Hitchcock

(1928-07-07)7 July 1928
London, England
Died9 August 2021(2021-08-09) (aged 93)
Thousand Oaks, California, US
Occupation(s)Actress, producer
Years active1950–2008
Spouse
Joseph E. O'Connell Jr.
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(m. 1952;died 1994)​
Children3
Parents
Relatives Joseph E. O'Connell (father-in-law)

Patricia Alma Hitchcock O'Connell (7 July 1928 – 9 August 2021) [1] was an English-American actress and producer, acting under the name Pat Hitchcock. She was the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville, and had small roles in several of her father's films, with her most substantial appearance being in Strangers on a Train (1951). [2]

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Early life

Hitchcock was born on 7 July 1928 in London, the only child of film director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville. The family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1939.[ citation needed ]

As a child, Hitchcock knew she wanted to be an actress, and made her first onscreen appearance as an uncredited extra alongside her mother in Sabotage (1936). [3] In the early 1940s, she began acting on the stage and doing summer stock. Her father helped her gain a role in the Broadway production of Solitaire (1942). [4] She also played the title role in the Broadway play Violet (1944). [5]

After graduating from Marymount High School in Los Angeles in 1947, she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and also appeared on the London stage. [1]

Career

In early 1949, her parents arrived in London to make Stage Fright , Hitchcock's first British-made feature film since emigrating to Hollywood. Pat did not know she would have a walk-on part in the film until her parents arrived. Because she bore a resemblance to the star, Jane Wyman, her father asked if she would mind also doubling for Wyman in the scenes that required "danger driving".[ citation needed ]

She had supporting roles in three of her father's films. [2] In Stage Fright (1950), she played a jolly acting student named Chubby Bannister, one of Wyman's school chums; Strangers on a Train (1951), playing Barbara Morton, sister of Anne Morton (Ruth Roman), the lover of Guy Haines (Farley Granger); and Caroline in Psycho (1960). In this role, she offers to share her tranquilizers with Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), having received them from her mother prior to her wedding night. Hitchcock was an extra in her father's film Sabotage (1936). She and her mother, Alma Reville, are in the crowd waiting for, then watching, the Lord Mayor's Show parade.

Hitchcock also worked for Jean Negulesco on The Mudlark (1950), which starred Irene Dunne and Alec Guinness, playing a palace maid, and again was cast as a maid in the first episode of the 1953 television series Life with Father . [6] She had a bit-part in DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956).

As well as appearing in ten episodes of her father's half-hour television programme, Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Hitchcock worked on a few others, including Playhouse 90 , which was live, directed by John Frankenheimer. Acting for her father, however, remained the high point of her acting career, which she interrupted to bring up her children. [7] (Hitchcock has a small joke with her first appearance on his show – after saying good night and exiting the screen, he sticks his head back into the picture and remarks: "I thought the little leading lady was rather good, didn't you?")

She also served as executive producer of the documentary The Man on Lincoln's Nose (2000), which is about Robert F. Boyle and his contribution to films.

For several years, she was the family representative on the staff of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine . She supplied family photos and wrote the foreword of the book Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco (2002) by Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal. A biography of her mother, Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man, was co-written with Laurent Bouzereau, and published in 2003. [3] [2]

Personal life and death

Back row, L-R: Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell holding daughter Terry O'Connell, husband Joseph O'Connell. Front row, L-R: Alfred Hitchcock, Mary Alma O'Connell, and Alma Reville Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock and family circa 1955.JPG
Back row, L-R: Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell holding daughter Terry O'Connell, husband Joseph O'Connell. Front row, L-R: Alfred Hitchcock, Mary Alma O'Connell, and Alma Reville Hitchcock

Hitchcock married Joseph E. O'Connell, Jr., son of Boston businessman Joseph E. O'Connell, on 17 January 1952, at Our Lady Chapel in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. [8] The couple had three daughters, Mary Alma Stone, Teresa "Terry” Carrubba, and Kathleen "Katie" Fiala. O'Connell died in 1994. [1]

Hitchcock died of natural causes in her sleep at her home in Thousand Oaks, California, on 9 August 2021, one month after her 93rd birthday. [9] Her daughter Teresa made the following statement: "She was always really good at protecting the legacy of my grandparents and making sure they were always remembered. ... It’s sort of an end of an era now that they’re all gone." [10]

Filmography

Film

YearFilmRoleNotes
1936 Sabotage Crowd extraUncredited
1950 Stage Fright Chubby Banister
The Mudlark Servant (Bit Part)Uncredited
1951 Strangers on a Train Barbara Morton
1956 The Ten Commandments Court LadyUncredited
1960 Psycho CarolineCredited as Pat Hitchcock
1978 Skateboard Mrs. HarrisCredited as Pat Hitchcock

Television

YearTV SeriesRoleNotes
1953 Life with Father NoraSeason 1, premiere episode (22 November 1953) Credited as Pat Hitchcock [6] [11]
1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Diana WinthropSeason 1, "Into Thin Air" (30 October 1955) Credited as Pat Hitchcock
1956MargaretSeason 1, "The Older Sister" (22 January 1956) Credited as Pat Hitchcock
Ellie MarshSeason 1, "The Belfry" (13 May 1956) Credited as Pat Hitchcock
1957Polly StephensSeason 3, "I Killed the Count", Part 1 (17 March 1957) Credited as Pat Hitchcock
SalesladySeason 3, "The Glass Eye" (6 October 1957) Credited as Pat Hitchcock
Nancy MasonSeason 3, "Silent Witness" (3 November 1957) Credited as Pat Hitchcock
1958AileenSeason 3, "The Crocodile Case" (25 May 1958) Credited as Pat Hitchcock
1959PatSeason 4, "The Morning of the Bride" (15 February 1959) Credited as Pat Hitchcock
1960DorothySeason 5, "The Cuckoo Clock" (17 April 1960) Credited as Pat Hitchcock
RoseSeason 5, "The Schartz-Metterklume Method" (12 June 1960) Credited as Pat Hitchcock

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  6. 1 2 "'Life With Father' Making Bow". The Baltimore Sun. 15 November 1953. p. 90. Retrieved 11 October 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ Peary, Gerald (7 October 1984). "At Home with Hitchcock". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  8. ↑ "O'Connell to Wed Miss Hitchcock in N. Y. Cathedral". The Boston Daily Globe. 10 January 1952.
  9. ↑ Barnes, Mike (10 August 2021). "Pat Hitchcock, 'Strangers on a Train' Actress and Daughter of Alfred Hitchcock, Dies at 93". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
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  11. ↑ Ames, Walter (22 November 1953). "CBS Remodels Back to 1880s on Scenes For Life With Father". The Los Angeles Times. p. 111. Retrieved 11 October 2021– via Newspapers.com.
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