The Birds Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Susan Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, and Veronica Cartwright

Director : Alfred Hitchcock Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was nicknamed the "Master of Suspense" for employing a kind of psychological suspense in his films, producing a distinct viewer experience. Born in London on August 13, 1899, Alfred Hitchcock worked for a short time in engineering before entering the film industry in 1920. He left for Hollywood in 1939, where his first American film, Rebecca, won an Academy Award for best picture. Hitchcock created more than 50 films, including the classics Rear Window, The 39 Steps and Psycho. Nicknamed the "Master of Suspense," Hitchcock received the AFI's Life Achievement Award in 1979. He died in 1980.

Starring : rod Taylor Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor of film and television. He appeared in over 50 films, including roles in The Time Machine, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Seven Seas to Calais, The Birds, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, Dark of the Sun, The Liquidator, Darker Than Amber, The Train Robbers, and Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglorious Bastards as Winston Churchill, which was his final film appearance.

Starring : Tippi Hedren Tippi Hedren was born in Minnesota in 1930. As a young girl she began a modeling career that later took her to New York and Los Angeles. In the early 1960s her role in a television commercial caught the eye of famed director Alfred Hitchcock, who signed her to a contract and gave her the lead in his films The Birds and Marnie. While her roles earned her critical acclaim and made her star, Hedren’s relationship with Hitchcock quickly soured and the two parted ways. While continuing her work in television and film, Hedren has also devoted a good portion of her time to a range of charities, most significantly with animal- rights and wildlife-conservation causes. In the early 1970s she founded the Shambala Preserve in Southern California as a sanctuary for rescued exotic cats, and in 1983 she founded the Roar Foundation to continue her work with animals. During her career, she has received countless awards for both her acting and charitable endeavors. Hedren has been married three times and is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith.

Starring : Susanne Pleshette Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 – January 19, 2008) was an American actress and voice actress.After beginning her career in the theatre, she began appearing in films in the late 1950s, and later appeared in prominent films such as Rome Adventure (1962) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). She later appeared in various television productions, often in guest roles, and played Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show from 1972 until 1978, receiving several Emmy Award nominations for her work. She continued acting until 2004, four years before her death.

Starring : Jessica Tandy Jessica Tandy was an English-born U.S. actress well known for her role in Broadway's Foxfire and her Oscar-winning performance in the film Driving Miss Daisy. Jessica Tandy was an English-born U.S. actress, well known for her role in Broadway's Foxfire and her Oscar-winning performance in Driving Miss Daisy(1989). Tandy was the original Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, for which she won a Tony Award. She was married to actor Hume Cronyn and starred opposite him in a number of films, including The Gin Game (1977) and Cocoon (1985).

Starring : veronica cartwright Veronica A. Cartwright (born April 20, 1949) is an English-born American actress who has worked mainly in American film and television in a career spanning six decades. As a child actress she appeared in supporting roles in The Children's Hour and The Birds. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the science fiction films Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and Alien(1979), for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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