Pat Hitchcock, actress of the 50s and only child of Alfred Hitchcock, deceased at 93

Pat Hitchcock, the only son of director Alfred Hitchcock, has passed away at the age of 93.

Her daughter, Katie O’Connell-Fiala, confirmed she died Monday in Thousand Oaks, California.

She has appeared in her father’s films including “Strangers on a Train”, “Psycho” and “Stage Fright”. In “Psycho,” Hitchcock played Caroline, Janet Leigh’s office mate, who offers to share her tranquilizers. In “Strangers on a Train”, she was Barbara Morton, the sister of Ruth Roman’s character, Anne Morton.

She has also appeared in films such as “The Case of Thomas Pyke” and television series such as “Suspense”, “Suspicion”, “My Little Margie”, “Matinee Theater” and “The Life of Riley” as well as in 10 episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.” She also played a small role in “The Ten Commandments”.

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During the 1970s, she appeared in the TV dramas “Skateboard”, “Six Characters in Search of an Author” and “Ladies of the Corridor”.

Promotional portrait of actress Patricia Hitchcock, daughter of director Alfred Hitchcock, 1957.
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She was born Patricia Hitchcock on July 7, 1928 to Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville. The Hitchcocks moved to Los Angeles in 1939, and she decided to act like a child. She began performing on stage, appearing in the Broadway play “Violet”.

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Although she mainly retired from the theater to raise her children, Pat Hitchcock contributed to Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and co-wrote a biography of her mother, “Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man,” with Laurent Bouzereau.

Pat Hitchcock’s house burned down in the devastating Woolsey fire in Southern California in 2018.

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Her husband, Joseph E. O’Connell, Jr., died in 1994. She is survived by three daughters, Mary Stone, Tere Carrubba and Katie O’Connell-Fiala, lawyer at Amblin Partners.