Anglo-American actress, producer, author, and philanthropist. Patricia Alma Hitchcock, known more familiarly to friends and family as Pat, was the daughter and only child of Alfred Hitchcock, one of the most influential filmmakers of the twentieth century, and his wife, the former Alma Reville, a highly respected screenwriter and film editor who collaborated on many of her husband's films. Although born in London, she moved with her parents to the United States in her youth. She graduated from Marymount High School, a Catholic all-girl high school located in the Holmby Hills/Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. It was perhaps inevitable she would pursue a career in acting considering the influential place her parents held in the filmmaking community. As a young teen she had roles in the Broadway production of Solitare (1942) and played the title role in the play Violet (1944) on Broadway. Pat Hitchcock had supporting roles in three of her father's films: Stage Fright (1950); Strangers on a Train (1951); and Psycho (1960). She also appeared in her father's television series and appeared in several other films not associated with her father. Pat Hitchcock was married at Our Lady Chapel in Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York on January 17, 1952 to Joseph E. O'Connell, Jr., with whom she had three daughters. She only made sporadic appearances in film and television following her marriage. Following the deaths of her parents, she assumed an active role in preserving their legacy in the film industry. Hitchcock donated her father's papers in 1984 to the Margaret Herrick Library, the main repository of print, graphic, and research materials of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, establishing the Alfred Hitchcock Papers Collection, consisting of production material, television material, subject files, books and periodicals, scrapbooks and oversize material. She and Laurent Bouzereau co-authored a biography of her mother, entitled Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man, published in 2003, and she wrote the foreword of the book Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco, published in 2002, by Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal. For several years she participated in the production of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Pat Hitchcock O'Connell also served as executive producer of the documentary The Man on Lincoln's Nose (2000), which chronicled the career of Robert F. Boyle, an American film art director and production designer, who collaborated several times with Alfred Hitchcock, first as an associate art director for Saboteur (1942) and later as a production designer for North by Northwest (1959), The Birds (1963), and Marnie (1964). Boyle was responsible for recreating the realistic stone heads of Mount Rushmore for North by Northwest and it was from this fact that the film's title was derived. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.