The following is a list of guest stars and other actors who appeared on the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which started in 1955 as a half-hour show, changed its name to The Alfred Hitchcock Hour when it expanded to an hour, and returned as The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the 1980s as an hour-long show.
Apart from his remarkable introductions and conclusions to each episode, Alfred Hitchcock had only one cameo appearance. In the 1958 episode "A Dip In The Pool", he was on the cover of a copy of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine held by one of the actors.
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—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
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—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
—Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
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—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
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—Judith Guest (b. 1936)
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—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)