4 OF 15

Alfred Hitchcock; Alma Reville

4 of 15 portraits of Alfred Hitchcock

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
6 1/2 in. x 4 3/4 in. (165 mm x 120 mm)
Transferred from Central Office of Information, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x3565

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Sittersback to top

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899-1980), Film director. Sitter in 15 portraits.
Alma Reville (1900-1982), Film editor and script writer; wife of Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Sitter in 2 portraits.

Artistback to top

Howard Coster (1885-1959), Photographer. Artist associated with 9285 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.

This portraitback to top

Alma Reville (1900-1982) was an editor's assistant in films from the early 1920s, and worked as script girl on Hitchcock's debut film, The Pleasure Garden. They married in 1926 and she subsequently collaborated as screen writer on many of his films including The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes.

Linked publicationsback to top

Pepper, Terence; Strong, Arthur, Howard Coster's Celebrity Portraits, 1985 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 28 June - 8 September 1985), p. 64