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====Knighthood and death==== <!--add American Film Institute Life Achievement Award and speech about his wife-->[[File:Alfred Hitchcock by Jack Mitchell.jpg|thumb|{{circa|1972}} by [[Jack Mitchell (photographer)|Jack Mitchell]]]] Toward the end of his life, Hitchcock was working on the script for a spy thriller, ''[[The Short Night]]'', collaborating with [[James Costigan]], [[Ernest Lehman]] and [[David Freeman (screenwriter)|David Freeman]]. Despite preliminary work, it was never filmed. Hitchcock's health was declining and he was worried about his wife, who had suffered a [[stroke]]. The screenplay was eventually published in Freeman's book ''The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock'' (1999).<ref>{{harvnb|McGilligan|2003|pp= 731–734}}; {{harvnb|Freeman|1999}}</ref> Having refused a [[CBE]] in 1962,<ref>{{cite news |title=Queen's honours: People who have turned them down named |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16736495 |work=BBC News |date=5 August 2015|access-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126094501/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16736495|archive-date=26 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Hitchcock was appointed a [[Order of the British Empire|Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]] (KBE) in the [[1980 New Year Honours]].<ref name=Todd30April1980>{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/1980/film/news/alfred-hitchcock-dies-of-natural-causes-at-bel-air-home-1201344342/ |title=Alfred Hitchcock Dies Of Natural Causes at Bel-Air Home |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |date=30 April 1980 |magazine=Variety|access-date=12 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213010210/https://variety.com/1980/film/news/alfred-hitchcock-dies-of-natural-causes-at-bel-air-home-1201344342/|archive-date=13 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=48041 |supp=y |page=6|date=28 December 1979}}</ref> He was too ill to travel to London—he had a [[pacemaker]] and was being given [[cortisone]] injections for his arthritis—so on 3 January 1980 the British consul general presented him with the papers at Universal Studios. Asked by a reporter after the ceremony why it had taken the Queen so long, Hitchcock quipped, "I suppose it was a matter of carelessness." Cary Grant, Janet Leigh and others attended a luncheon afterwards.<ref name="Spoto 1999 553">{{harvnb|Spoto|1999|p=553}}</ref><ref name=Ebert2Jan1980>{{cite web |first=Roger |last=Ebert|author-link=Roger Ebert |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/hitchcock-he-always-did-give-us-knightmares |title=Hitchcock: he always did give us knightmares |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=2 January 1980|access-date=12 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222085259/http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/hitchcock-he-always-did-give-us-knightmares|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> <!--add something about his estate-->His last public appearance was on 16 March 1980, when he introduced the next year's winner of the American Film Institute award.<ref name="Spoto 1999 553"/> He died of [[kidney failure]] the following month, on 29 April, in his [[Bel Air, Los Angeles|Bel Air]] home.<ref name="Variety obituary">{{cite news |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |url=https://variety.com/1980/film/news/alfred-hitchcock-dies-of-natural-causes-at-bel-air-home-1201344342 |title=Alfred Hitchcock Dies Of Natural Causes at Bel-Air Home |work=Variety |date=7 May 1980|access-date=12 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213010210/https://variety.com/1980/film/news/alfred-hitchcock-dies-of-natural-causes-at-bel-air-home-1201344342/|archive-date=13 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|McGilligan|2003|p= 745}}</ref> [[Donald Spoto]], one of Hitchcock's biographers, wrote that Hitchcock had declined to see a priest,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/06/books/and-suddenly-evil-erupts.html |title=NY Times – 'And Suddenly Evil Erupts' biography review 1996 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=6 March 1983 |access-date=16 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716081110/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/06/books/and-suddenly-evil-erupts.html |archive-date=16 July 2019 |url-status=live|last1=Grenier |first1=Richard }}</ref> but according to Jesuit priest Mark Henninger, he and another priest, Tom Sullivan, celebrated Mass at the filmmaker's home, and Sullivan heard his [[Sacrament of Penance|confession]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Henninger |work=The Wall Street Journal |title=Alfred Hitchcock's Surprise Ending |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323401904578159573738040636 |date=6 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130207190149/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323401904578159573738040636.html |archive-date=7 February 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Hitchcock was survived by his wife and daughter. His funeral was held at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills on 30 April, after which his body was [[Cremation|cremated]]. His remains were scattered over the [[Pacific Ocean]] on 10 May 1980.<ref>{{cite book | last=Wydra | first=T. | title=Grace: A Biography | publisher=Skyhorse | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-62914-967-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_VfBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT291 | access-date=12 September 2024 | page=291}}</ref><ref name="obit">{{cite news |last=Flint |first=Peter B. |title=Alfred Hitchcock Dies; A Master of Suspense |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/04/30/archives/alfred-hitchcock-dies-a-master-of-suspense-alfred-hitchcock-master.html |date=30 April 1980 |work=The New York Times|access-date=25 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725214925/https://www.nytimes.com/1980/04/30/archives/alfred-hitchcock-dies-a-master-of-suspense-alfred-hitchcock-master.html|archive-date=25 July 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
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