Alfred Hitchcock begins in 1920 (he is 21), in the Famous Players-Lasky, an american company, which had opened a studio in Great Brittain at Islington. During two years, he draws intertitles of numerous silent art films :

 Call of Youth,
 The Great Day de Hugh Ford (1921),
 The Princess of New York,
 Tell Your Children de Donald Crisp (1921),
 Three Live Ghosts de George Fitzmaurice (1922).

First film (not finished) : Number thirteen (1922).

Famous Players-Lasky interrupts its production in England, and A. Hitchcock is hired as assistant film director by a new independant company. He has other functions, such as a scenarist :

 Woman to woman, by Michael Balcon (1923),
 The white shadow, by Graham Cuts (1923),
 The passionate adventure, by Graham Cutts (1924),
 The blackguard, by Graham Cutts (1925),
 The prude's fall, by Graham Cutts (1925).

First A. Hitchcock films :

 The pleasure garden (1925)
 The mountain eagle (1926)
 The lodger (1926)
 Downhill (1927)