![]() ![]() ![]() And after that, I found that every single Hitchcock film that came along absolutely mesmerized me.” “The film completely wiped me out,” he told the Westchester Rockland Newspapers of New York in 1976. But he always had a fondness for movies, especially those directed by Hitchcock, whose work he first encountered when he was 10 and saw “Strangers on a Train” at the RKO Proctor’s Theater in New Rochelle. Before that, he had held several teaching positions, including in the theology department at Fairfield University in Connecticut and the department of religion at the College of New Rochelle in Westchester County, north of New York City. ![]() Spoto wrote more than two dozen books, being a biographer was a sort of second career for him. His husband and only immediate survivor, Ole Flemming Larsen, said the cause was a brain hemorrhage.Īlthough Mr. "He wrote more than two dozen books, including richly detailed biographies of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Laurence Olivier and Jesus."ĭonald Spoto, a prolific biographer whose subjects included Jesus and Joan of Arc, but who was best known for his books on Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and other high-profile entertainment figures, some of which made news with startling claims, died on Feb. "Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many More, Dies at 81" I knew him mainly for his biography of Joan of Arc. ![]()
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