In honor of Alfred Hitchcock's birthday – which would have been his 113th – here is a very decent compilation of nearly all the cameos made by the Master of Suspense. He may not have been an angel, but he made us some pretty excellent movies, in which he made some pretty clever cameos. (via Roger Ebert's Journal, Chicago Sun-Times)
For his birthday, (almost) all of Alfred Hitchcock's cameos
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