Actress Patricia Hitchcock, the daughter of famed director Alfred Hitchcock, has died at the age of 93.
The Hollywood veteran, who appeared in several of her father's films including "Stage Fright" and "Strangers on a Train," died Monday in California, reports Variety.
Hitchcock, who also appeared in ten episodes of her father's television series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” in the 1950s, is perhaps best known for her role in "Psycho" where she offered Janet Leigh a tranquilizer.
Born on July 7, 1928 to the director and his wife, Alma Reville, Hitchcock moved to the United States from the UK as a child when her father was hired to direct "Rebecca."
Hitchcock appeared in several television movies in the 1970s, but mostly retired from acting to care for her children. She co-wrote a biography of her mother, “Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man,” and credited her mother for her father's success in the film industry.
The New York Post reports that in 1997, Hitchcock said that her mother "was the one who really was in on everything from the very beginning. When [Alfred Hitchcock] would find a story that he was anxious to do, he would have her read it," she said in the documentary "The Making of 'Psycho.'"
"If she didn’t think it would make a picture, he didn’t touch it. Then she would be the first one to read the treatment and the screenplay, and she was even in on a lot of the casting, too," she continued.
Hitchcock is survived by three daughters.
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