Alfred Hitchcock, master of mystery movies, dies

On April 30, 1980, The Times re­por­ted that Sir Al­fred Hitch­cock, the mas­ter mo­tion pic­ture dir­ect­or whose geni­us for the macabre chilled the spine of three gen­er­a­tions of movie­go­ers, died at his Bel-Air home. He was 80.