Pat Hitchcock
Pat Hitchcock | |
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Born | Patricia Alma Hitchcock 7 July 1928 |
Died | 9 August 2021 | (aged 93)
Occupation | Actress, producer |
Years active | 1950–2008 |
Spouse(s) | Joseph E. O'Connell Jr.
(m. 1952; died 1994) |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) | Alfred Hitchcock Alma Reville |
Patricia Alma O'Connell (née Hitchcock; 7 July 1928 – 9 August 2021) was an English actress and producer. She was the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville, and had small roles in several of his films, her most substantial appearance being in Strangers on a Train (1951).[2]
Early life[]
Hitchcock was born in London in 1928, the only child of film director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville. The family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1939.
As a child, Hitchcock knew she wanted to be an actress. 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).[3] She also played the title role in the Broadway play Violet (1944).[4]
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.
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".
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 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.[5] (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.[2]
Personal life[]
She married Joseph E. O'Connell, Jr. on 17 January 1952, at Our Lady Chapel in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. They decided to have their wedding there because Hitchcock had many friends on the East Coast and O'Connell had relatives in Boston. The couple had three daughters, Mary Alma Stone (born 17 April 1953), Teresa "Tere" Carrubba (born 2 July 1954), and Kathleen "Katie" Fiala (born 27 February 1959). Joe died in 1994.[1]
Hitchcock died on 9 August 2021, at home in Thousand Oaks, California. She was 93.[6] According to Carruba, her mother died in her sleep from natural causes. "She was always really good at protecting the legacy of my grandparents and making sure they were always remembered,” said Carruba. “It’s sort of an end of an era now that they’re all gone."[7]
Filmography[]
Film[]
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1950 | Stage Fright | Chubby Banister | |
The Mudlark | Servant (Bit Part) | Uncredited | |
1951 | Strangers on a Train | Barbara Morton | |
1956 | The Ten Commandments | Court Lady | Uncredited |
1960 | Psycho | Caroline | Credited as Pat Hitchcock |
1978 | Skateboard | Mrs. Harris | Credited as Pat Hitchcock |
Television[]
Year | TV Series | Role | Notes |
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1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Diana Winthrop | Season 1, "Into Thin Air" (30 October 1955) Credited as Pat Hitchcock |
1956 | Margaret | Season 1, "The Older Sister" (22 January 1956) Credited as Pat Hitchcock | |
Ellie Marsh | Season 1, "The Belfry" (13 May 1956) Credited as Pat Hitchcock | ||
1957 | Polly Stephens | Season 3, "I Killed the Count", Part 1 (17 March 1957) Credited as Pat Hitchcock | |
Saleslady | Season 3, "The Glass Eye" (6 October 1957) Credited as Pat Hitchcock | ||
Nancy Mason | Season 3, "Silent Witness" (3 November 1957) Credited as Pat Hitchcock | ||
1958 | Aileen | Season 3, "The Crocodile Case" (25 May 1958) Credited as Pat Hitchcock | |
1959 | Pat | Season 4, "The Morning of the Bride" (15 February 1959) Credited as Pat Hitchcock | |
1960 | Dorothy | Season 5, "The Cuckoo Clock" (17 April 1960) Credited as Pat Hitchcock | |
Rose | Season 5, "The Schartz-Metterklume Method" (12 June 1960) Credited as Pat Hitchcock |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Mackenzie, Suzie (28 August 1999). "The woman who knew too much". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Patricia Hitchcock, actress who featured in her father Alfred's films Stage Fright and Strangers on a Train – obituary". The Telegraph. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ Adair, Gene (2002). Alfred Hitchcock: Filming Our Fears. Oxford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 0-19-511967-3
- ^ "Internet Broadway Database". Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ Peary, Gerald (7 October 1984). "At Home with Hitchcock". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Italie, Hillel (11 August 2021). "Pat Hitchcock, daughter of Alfred Hitchcock, dead at 93". AP News. Associated Press. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
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