Hitchcock Family History & Genealogy

NEW YORK (AP) — Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell, the only child of Alfred Hitchcock and an actor herself who made a memorable appearance in her father’s “Strangers on a Train” and championed his work in the decades following his death, has died at age 93. Hitchcock died Monday in her sleep at home in Thousand Oaks, California, her daughter Tere Carrubba said Wednesday. She died of natural causes, said Carrubba. “She was always really good at protecting the legacy of my grandparents and making sure they were always remembered,” said Carrubba, one of Patricia Hitchcock's three daughters. “It's sort of an end of an era now that they're all gone.” Known to many as Pat Hitchcock, she was born in London to Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville Hitchcock in 1928 and spent much of her life in and around the family business. During her childhood, Alfred Hitchcock directed such classics as “The 39 Steps,” “The Lady Vanishes” and “Shadow of a Doubt,” moved to California after signing a multipicture deal with producer David O. Selznick and rose to global fame as the “Master of Suspense.” Alma was his indispensable adviser, a former film editor through whom he vetted story ideas and screenplay treatments. “My mother had much more to do with the films than she has ever been given credit for — he depended on her for everything, absolutely everything,” Pat Hitchcock told The Guardian in 1999. Pat would visit her father’s movie sets and by her teens was acting in school plays and appearing on stage, including the Broadway productions “Solitaire” and “Violet.” She was admitted to London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1947 and was about to graduate when her father contacted her and said he had a role for her in his new film, “Strangers on a Train,” adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel. The 1951 production starred Robert Walker and Farley Granger as strangers who meet on a train and agree — at least Walker thinks they agree — to a double murder: Walker will kill Granger’s wife, and Granger will kill Walker’s father. Pat Hitchcock plays the sister of a woman (Ruth Roman), with whom Granger is in love. Walker duly carries out his side, strangling Granger’s wife on the grounds of an amusement park, and pressures Granger to honor the bargain. He turns up at a party attended by Granger and chats up an elderly woman about the best way to kill someone — strangulation. He has placed his hands on her neck, when he looks up and sees Pat Hitchcock staring back in horror. Unnerved by her resemblance to his murder victim — they wear similar glasses — he nearly chokes the guest to death. Hitchcock’s character later sobs that she felt as if she was the one he might have killed, leading to suspicions about the murder of Granger’s wife. “I think he was using her as the audience,” Pat Hitchcock, interviewed for a 1997 BBC special on her father, said of her character. “I think he was having her go through what the audience went through.” Hitchcock was a lively, witty actor with a heart-shaped face and her other acting credits included the TV sitcoms “My Little Margie” and “The Life of Riley” and several roles in the TV series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.” She also had parts in her father’s “Stage Fright” and in his horror masterpiece “Psycho,” in which she plays an office colleague of Janet Leigh, who later in the film is famously stabbed to death in a motel shower. More recently, she worked for Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, appeared at numerous film festivals and in numerous Hitchcock documentaries and contributed photographs and a foreword to “Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco,” by Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal. She also co-authored a book on her mother, who died in 1982, “Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man.” (Alfred Hitchcock died in 1980). Pat Hitchcock was married for more than 40 years to Joseph O’Connell, who died in 1994. They had three children. She would insist that her childhood was happy and that her parents were normal, but she wasn’t spared her father’s distant, controlling nature and his skewed and sometimes cruel sense of humor. As a girl, she often ate alone, was sent to boarding school and deprived of a college education when her father decided she should instead return to England. She would express regret that he didn’t cast her in more of his films. “I certainly wish he’d believed in nepotism,” she liked to say. At home, the director once painted a clown face on her while she was sleeping, anticipating her shock when she awoke the next morning and first looked in a mirror. During the filming of “Strangers on a Train,” knowing her fear of heights, he bet her $100 that she wouldn’t ride a Ferris wheel on the set. She disputed a story from Andrew Spoto’s 1983 biography “The Dark Side of Genius” that he left her stranded, and terrified, for an hour. “What happened is they turned off the lights and pretended they were going away — for all of what I’d say were 35 seconds — and put the lights on and we came down,” she told the Chicago Tribune in 1993. “The only ‘sadistic’ part is that I never got the hundred dollars.”

Ruby Hitchcock was born on May 13, 1926, and died at age 47 years old in January 1974. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ruby Hitchcock.

Franklin D Hitchcock was born on November 5, 1946, and died at age 55 years old on February 22, 2002. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Franklin D Hitchcock.

Leslie J Hitchcock was born on September 24th, 1918 in Blenheim, New York to John I Hitchcock (1885 - 1964) and Kate Mae Porter (1884 - 1974). Both of his parents were born in New York. Leslie had five siblings: Margretha Belle, Ula, Everette, Joan, and Ivan Hitchcock. Leslie Hitchcock married Louise Sarah Reed (1917 - 2001) on March 9th, 1936 in Grand Gorge, New York. They had one son, Robert Leslie Hitchcock (1937 - 1990). A lifelong resident of the state of New York, Leslie died at the age of 67 in North Blenheim, New York. He is buried in Keyserkill Cemetery in Schoharie County, New York.

Robert W Hitchcock of Angwin, Napa County, CA was born on December 28, 1918, and died at age 73 years old on September 21, 1992.

Rachael Maria (Hill) Hitchcock of Melbourne, VIC Australia was born on December 4, 1874 in Dunolly to Joseph Hill and Maria Collis Rippon. She had siblings Benjamin Hill, Mary Collis (Hill) Richards, Joseph Rennie Hill, Ida Jane Hill, Agnes Maud (Hill) Reeves, George Albert Blake Hill, John Hill, Charles Alfred Hill, Betsey Hill Coates, Arthur William Hill, Fairborn Kenyion Hill, Alice Matilda Hill, and Catherine Ellen (Hill) Bales. She married Donald William Hitchcock, and had a child Elizabeth Maria Hitchcock. Rachael Hitchcock died at age 68 years old on February 5, 1943 in Melbourne.

Clifford Hitchcock Sr was born on December 1, 1935. He was in a relationship with Evelyn Hitchcock, and had a child William C Hitchcock Sr. Clifford Hitchcock died at age 78 years old on February 20, 2014 in California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Clifford Hitchcock Sr.

Harley H Hitchcock of Washington County, Oklahoma United States was born circa 1923. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Harley H Hitchcock.

Theodore Roosevelt Hitchcock was born on July 25, 1903. He was in a relationship with Goldie E. (Gray), and had a child Harley H Hitchcock. Theodore Hitchcock died at age 75 years old on May 13, 1979.

Goldie Evelyn (Gray) Hitchcock was born on May 22, 1903 in Missouri United States. She was in a relationship with Theodore R. Hitchcock, and had a child Harley H Hitchcock. Goldie Hitchcock died at age 77 years old on January 3, 1981. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Goldie E. (Gray).

Gary Wayne Hitchcock was born to Stonewall Jackson Hitchcock and Willie Mae Holbrooks. He had siblings Michael Wayne and Wilma Dean Hitchcock (1942 - 2017). Gary was a Sergeant First Class in the United States Army and served during the War in Vietnam. Gary W. Hitchcock married Geraldine M. Hanks. They divorced, after 12 years and two children, in January of 1981. Also in November of 1981, Gary married Michelle L. Wolf. See Gary Wayne Hitchcock: Obituary.

Caroline (Hitchcock) Bolger of Malvern Australia was born circa 1818 in Buckinghamshire County, England United Kingdom. She was married to Henry Thomas Bolger, and had children Caroline Maria (Bolger) Chambers, James Lawrence Bolger, Henry William Bolger, Blanche Evelyn (Bolger) Rigby, and Ernest Maltravers Bolger. Caroline Bolger died at age 35 years old on November 8, 1854 in St Kilda, Port Phillip City County, VIC Australia.

Alice Martha Jane Hitchcock of Coburg Australia was born on March 16, 1883 in Coburg to Eliza (Hinbury) Hitchcock and George Henry Hitchcock. She had siblings Nellie Hitchcock, Martha May (Hitchcock) Dale, and George Mathew John Hitchcock. Alice Hitchcock died at age 4 years old in 1887 in Coburg.

George Mathew John Hitchcock of Merl Australia was born circa 1885 in Bu County, VIC to Eliza (Hinbury) Hitchcock and George Henry Hitchcock. He had siblings Alice Martha Jane Hitchcock, Nellie Hitchcock, and Martha May (Hitchcock) Dale. George Hitchcock died at age 75 years old in 1960 in Merlwood.

Eliza (Hinbury) Hitchcock of Coburg Australia was born in 1864 in Bulla, City of Hume County, VIC. She was married to George Henry Hitchcock in 1882, and had children Alice Martha Jane Hitchcock, George Mathew John Hitchcock, Martha May (Hitchcock) Dale, and Nellie Hitchcock. Eliza Hitchcock died at age 69 years old in 1933 in Brunswick East, City of Merri-bek County.

George Hitchcock was born at the Pentridge Jail, behind the stockade walls. George's father, John Hitchcock (1815-1899) was a stonemason and lived in the jail while they were building the stockade. His mother was Sarah Jane Stratley (1828-1909).

Married 1916

Harrison O Hitchcock of Bay City, Bay County, MI was born on May 12, 1919, and died at age 82 years old on October 19, 2001.

Benny K Hitchcock of Greenville, Hunt County, TX was born on July 3, 1942, and died at age 55 years old on December 31, 1997.

Johnnie Mel Hitchcock of Hamilton County, Tennessee United States was born on March 31, 1925, and died at age 35 years old on January 11, 1961. Johnnie Hitchcock was buried at Chattanooga National Cemetery Section I Site 3369 1200 Bailey Avenue, in Chattanooga.