Stephen Rebello

Despite growing up as he says, "a universe, and many light years, apart from Hollywood," the Massachusetts-born Stephen Rebello as a young boy initiated a lively personal relationship with Hitchcock himself through letters and even phone calls.  The life-changing connection culminated in 1980.

Rebello, by then a private practice clinical therapist and department supervisor at a Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospital, became the final interviewer to whom Hitchcock granted an interview before the director's April, 1980 death at age 80.  The interview was initially published in Boston's underground weekly The Real Paper and was subsequently syndicated internationally. 

From there, Rebello relocated to Los Angeles where he began a successful career as an editor and journalist affiliated with such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Saturday Review, American Film, Cinefantastique, Cinefex, Biography, Vibe, Los Angeles, GQ, Movielineand Playboy.  The Hitchcock connection was renewed with the 1980 publication of the critically acclaimed perennial international bestseller, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. A friend and mentee of the late writer-producer Ernest Lehman (NORTH BY NORTHWEST, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, FAMILY PLOT), Rebello has sold screenplays and teleplays to independent companies as well as the Walt Disney Company.

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