Alfred Hitchcock’s daughter, actress, was 93 – deadline

Actress Patricia Hitchcock, only daughter of Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville, died Tuesday at her home in Thousand Oaks, according to several reports. She was 93 years old.

Born Patricia Alma O’Connell in 1928, Pat Hitchcock appeared in many of her father’s films and his eponymous 1950s TV show.

In 1939, the family moved to Los Angeles. After her father’s career took off in Hollywood, Hitchcock wanted to become an actress.

He helped her find a role in the Broadway production of Solitary in 1942. Two years later, she played the title role in the play Purple on Broadway.

From around 1950 she had small roles in several of her films, starting with Stage fright.

In early 1949, his parents returned to London to do Stage fright, Hitchcock’s first British feature film since he left Hollywood. Because she looked like the star of the film, Jane Wyman, her father asked her if she would mind doubling down for Wyman as well. Pat ended up in the film as Chubby Bannister, a school friend of Wyman’s character who, like Pat in real life, was a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

She told the BBC that her role in Strangers on a train came about when, as she was graduating from Royal Academy, her father said he had “a wonderful role” for her in his new film. It was Barbara Morton, the sister of Anne Morton of Ruth Roman.

“I would have loved if he had believed in nepotism so that I could have taken more pictures with him,” she said, “but he only chose people if he thought they were absolutely perfect for the role. “

See Hitchcock talk about working with his father on the film in the clip below.

In the 1960s psychopath, Hitchcock played the main character’s ordinary office mate, Caroline, who generously offers to share the tranquilizers her mother gave her for her wedding night.

Hitchcock had a small uncredited role as an extra in his father’s film Sabotage as well as an uncredited role in the epic Cecil B. DeMille The ten Commandments.

In the mid-fifties she starred in nearly a dozen episodes of Alfred Hitchcock presents. She also appeared on Playhouse 90 and many other staples of 1950s TV.

Two decades later, she played a role in the classic 70s genre film Skateboarder opposite Leif Garrett, Tony Alva and Gordon Jump.

She was also executive producer of the short film The man with the nose of Lincoln In 2000.

She has appeared in numerous backstage and “Making Of” videos of her father’s films over the years.

Pat married Joseph E. O’Connell, Jr. in 1952. They had three daughters, Mary Alma Stone, Teresa “Tere” Carrubba and Kathleen “Katie” Fiala. Joe died in 1994.

She was for a time the family representative on the staff of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery magazine. In 2003, she published Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man, co-written with Laurent Bouzereau.