Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a English film director and producer, closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. He is a well-known man and an award-winning director. He directed and produced three of the American Film Institute Top 100 Films, Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), and North by Northwest (1959), two psychological thrillers and a suspense film. Additionally, Vertigo was rated as the best film of all time in the 2012 British Film Institute Sight and Sound poll of the greatest films of all time.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.