Pat Hitchcock, the only daughter of Alfred Hitchcock, died Monday at her home in Thousand Oaks at the age of 93. Her daughter, Katie Fiala, an Abelin executive, confirmed the news.
Born on July 7, 1928, Pat Hitchcock was the only daughter of Hitchcock and his longtime partner, film editor and screenwriter Emma Revere. When Pat Hitchcock was a child, he aspired to be an actor. In the early 1940s, she began acting on stage, taking on major roles in broadway plays Solitaire and Violet, and further studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
In 1950, Pat Hitchcock began appearing in her father's directing work. She originally played the cheerful student Chabi Bannister in the British film noir Sea Of Desire. Because she happened to look like movie star Jane Wyman, Alfred Hitchcock also asked her to act as a stand-in for Wyman in some scenes. After Sea Horror, Pat also played Barbara Morton in 1951's Train Freak, which was probably her most important film role. In 1960, Pat even played Janet Leigh's character Marion Crane's friend Caroline in Horror.
In addition, Pat starred in ten episodes of the mid-to-late 1950s television series Hitchcock Theater and played a court lady in the 1956 religious film The Ten Commandments, though the role was not included in the cast list. In 1978, she returned to the big screen again, starring in the sports film "Skateboard" directed by George Gage.
For many years, Pat served as an honorary representative for Hitchcock Suspense Story magazine. In 2002, she also wrote the foreword to Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal's book Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco. In 2003, she published Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man, co-authored with Laurent Bouzereau, in honor of her late mother.
Pat Hitchcock's father, Alfred, died of kidney failure in 1980 at the age of 80. Two years later, her mother died at the age of 82. Her husband, Joseph O'Connell Jr., died of a heart attack in 1994. The couple's three daughters, Mary Stone, Tere Carrubba and Katie Fiara, are still alive.