Alfred Hitchcock, British-born film director whose name and face was as famous as any of the acting stars who appeared in his films, one of the true Hollywood originals, the Master of Suspense. Music: Funeral March Of A Marionette. Piano solo(1872), then orchestral piece(1879) by French composer Charles Gounod(1818-1893), known best by modern audiences as the theme to the television program "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Selected by Hitchcock himself as one of the pieces of music he would take with him to the proverbial desert island.