Biography

While in Los Angeles on a brief vacation from his position as a supervising Clinical Social Worker at a Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, Stephen Rebello secured an interview with acclaimed director Alfred Hitchcock in his offices at Universal. The meeting led to the 1980 publication of an interview in "The Real Paper," the final Hitchcock interview published before the seminal filmmaker's death that same year. The interview was picked-up for national and international syndication. Relocating from Boston, Massachusetts to Santa Monica, California, Rebello gradually shifted from clinical practice to journalism, writing regularly for several national magazines and newspapers including "American Film" and publishing, among other pieces, a lengthy Cinefantastique cover story uncovering much new information on Alfred Hitchcock and his collaborators making the classic thriller "Psycho." In 1990, Rebello won international acclaim for his book-length study "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of 'Psycho'," which has been translated into international editions in France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Italy, Portugal, China, Korea, and Japan. The book helped put the author on the lecture and personal appearance circuit. As a journalist and magazine contributing editor, he quickly became noted for widely quoted interviews and arts and entertainment-related pieces for such magazines as Playboy, GQ, Movieline, Saturday Review, American Film, Cosmopolitan, Biography, More, Hollywood Life and others, while becoming a sought-after guest and media commentator on TV and radio.

The Hitchcock book was also optioned by several motion picture studios including Universal, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox. He has recorded audio commentary for a number of DVD and Blu-ray special editions. Others of his books include the award-winning study of the pre-'50s heyday of American film advertising "Reel Art - Great Posters from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen" (with Richard C. Allen) and the satiric tribute to unintentionally hilarious big-budget Hollywood movies, "Bad Movies We Love" co-written with Edward Margulies.

Rebello has worked on story development, treatments, and screenplay several for Disney animated feature film projects as well as a Disney original musical based on one of the studio's animated classics for ABC. He was mentored by legendary screenwriter Ernest Lehman and had been hand-picked by Lehman to co-write a screenplay based on an earlier idea Lehman had presented to Alfred Hitchcock. News of the project sparked Hollywood interest but Mr. Lehman's health forced the writers to abandon the project.

A Los Angeles resident, in 2012, he was hired for several rounds of screenplay revisions for "Hitchcock," the Fox Searchlight film starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, and Scarlett Johansson, based on his book "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho." He has optioned the rights to two novels which he is adapting for the screen. Additionally, his newest, acclaimed non-fiction book, set against the tumultuous backdrop of Hollywood moviemaking in the '60s, is set for publication in the summer of 2020.
- IMDb mini biography by: AJH

Longtime editor-journalist of the New York Times Book Review, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt made Stephen Rebello's 1990 non-fiction book "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" the book review's lead front page story and reviewed it highly favorably, calling it a "meticulous history of a single film production." The review caught the attention of American and European filmmakers who sought to option the book. Similarly in 1959,Alfred Hitchcock bought the screen rights to Robert Bloch's "Psycho" based on a review of Robert Bloch's novel in the New York Times Book Review column "Criminals at Large" by Anthony Boucher.
- IMDb mini biography by: Stephen Rebello