Cecil B. DeMille

Known For: Directing
Born: August 12, 1881
Place of Birth: Ashfield, États-Unis
Died: January 21, 1959

Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker, known as a founder of the Hollywood motion-picture industry, one of the most commercially successful producer-directors of his time, and one of the most influential filmmakers in history. Between 1914 and 1956, he made seventy feature films; all but seven were profitable. Cecil B. DeMille is synonymous with religious epics: The King of Kings, Samson and Delilah, and The Ten Commandments (1956). He blended spectacle, sex, and spellbinding narrative to convey a message of faith. It was DeMille who created the image of the omnipotent director, megaphone in hand, wearing boots and a visored cap. DeMille gave Hollywood numerous stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, William (“Hopalong Cassidy”) Boyd, Claudette Colbert, Robert Preston, Jean Arthur, and Charlton Heston. DeMille created the posts of studio story…

Filmography

The U.S. and the Holocaust

2022 · Self (archive footage)

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

2021 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent

2020 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II

2020 · Self

Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle

2020 · Self (archive footage)

Hail Satan?

2019 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic

2019 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

2016 · Self

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

2012 · Self (archive footage)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

2007 · Self (archive footage)

The Making of The Ten Commandments

2003 · Self

The Casting Couch

1995

All-Time Movie Greats

All-Time Movie Greats

1988 · Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984 · Self (archive footage)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Showbiz Ballyhoo

1982 · Self (archive footage)

Hooray for Hollywood

1976 · Self (archive footage)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975 · Self (archive footage)

Spécial cinéma

1974 · Self (archive footage)

The Buccaneer

1958 · Presenter of Prologue, Executive Producer

The Buster Keaton Story

1957 · Cecil B. DeMille

The Ten Commandments

1956 · Narrator (uncredited), Producer, Director

Cinépanorama

1956 · Self

The War of the Worlds

1953 · Executive Producer

This Is Your Life

1952 · Self

Son of Paleface

1952 · Photographer (uncredited)

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer

The Fallbrook Story

1952 · Self, Introduction

Sunset Boulevard

1950 · Cecil B. DeMille

What's My Line?

1950 · Self

Samson and Delilah

1949 · Narrator (uncredited), Director, Producer

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

Unconquered

1947 · Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer

Variety Girl

1947 · Cecil B. DeMille

Jens Mons in America

1947 · Self (uncredited)

Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary

1945 · Self

The Story of Dr. Wassell

1944 · Voice of Narrator (uncredited), Director, Producer

Reap the Wild Wind

1942 · Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer

Star Spangled Rhythm

1942 · Cecil B. DeMille

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942 · Self

North West Mounted Police

1940 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer

The Movies March On

1939 · Self (archive footage)

Land of Liberty

1939 · Editor

Union Pacific

1939 · Director, Producer

The Buccaneer

1938 · Director, Producer

The Plainsman

1936 · Director, Producer

Hollywood Extra Girl

1935 · Cecil B. DeMille

The Crusades

1935 · Director

Cleopatra

1934 · Director, Producer

Four Frightened People

1934 · Director, Producer

The Hollywood You Never See

The Hollywood You Never See

1934 · Self

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

1933 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

This Day and Age

1933 · Director, Producer

The Sign of the Cross

1932 · Director, Producer

The Squaw Man

1931 · Director

Madam Satan

1930 · Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer

Estrellados

1930 · Self (Guest Appearance)

Free and Easy

1930 · Director Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)

Dynamite

1929 · Director

The Godless Girl

1928 · Director, Producer

Let 'Er Go Gallegher

1928 · Executive Producer

The Circus: Premiere

1928 · Self

The Angel of Broadway

1927 · Producer

The Fighting Eagle

1927 · Producer

Life in Hollywood No. 1

1927 · Self

Vanity

1927 · Producer

The King of Kings

1927 · Director, Producer

White Gold

1927 · Producer

Life in Hollywood

1927 · Self

The Cruise of the Jasper B

1926 · Producer

The Volga Boatman

1926 · Director, Producer

Silence

1926 · Producer

Whispering Smith

1926 · Producer

Red Dice

1926 · Presenter

The Wedding Song

1925 · Producer

The Road to Yesterday

1925 · Director

The Dressmaker from Paris

1925 · Supervising Producer

The Golden Bed

1925 · Director

Feet of Clay

1924 · Director, Producer

Triumph

1924 · Producer, Director

The Ten Commandments

1923 · Director, Producer

Adam's Rib

1923 · Director, Producer

Hollywood

1923 · Cecil B. DeMille

Manslaughter

1922 · Director

A Trip to Paramountown

1922 · Self

Saturday Night

1922 · Director, Producer

Fool's Paradise

1921 · Director

The Affairs of Anatol

1921 · Director

Forbidden Fruit

1921 · Director, Producer, Story

The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel

The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel

1921 · As himself, Director

Something to Think About

1920 · Director, Producer

Why Change Your Wife?

1920 · Director, Producer

Male and Female

1919 · Director, Producer

For Better, for Worse

1919 · Director

Don't Change Your Husband

1919 · Director

The Squaw Man

1918 · Director

Till I Come Back to You

1918 · Director

We Can't Have Everything

1918 · Editor, Director

Old Wives for New

1918 · Director, Editor, Producer

The Whispering Chorus

1918 · Director

The Devil Stone

1917 · Director

Nan of Music Mountain

1917 · Director

The Woman God Forgot

1917 · Director, Producer, Editor

The Little American

1917 · Director, Producer, Editor, Writer

A Romance of the Redwoods

1917 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

Lost and Won

1917 · Producer

Betty to the Rescue

1917 · General Manager

Joan the Woman

1916 · Director, Editor, Producer

The Dream Girl

1916 · Director

Maria Rosa

1916 · Director

The Heart of Nora Flynn

1916 · Director

The Love Mask

1916 · Writer

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1916 · Story, Director, Producer

The Golden Chance

1915 · Director, Story, Producer, Editor

Temptation

1915 · Editor, Director

The Cheat

1915 · Editor, Director, Producer

Chimmie Fadden Out West

1915 · Director, Producer, Editor, Writer

Carmen

1915 · Director, Producer, Editor

Kindling

1915 · Writer, Producer, Director

Chimmie Fadden

1915 · Writer, Producer, Director, Editor

The Arab

1915 · Producer, Director, Writer

The Wild Goose Chase

1915 · Director

The Captive

1915 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

The Unafraid

1915 · Story, Director

The Warrens of Virginia

1915 · Director, Producer

After Five

1915 · Director

The Girl of the Golden West

1915 · Producer, Director, Writer

The Ghost Breaker

1914 · Producer, Writer, Director

The Circus Man

1914 · Writer

The Rose of the Rancho

1914 · Editor, Director, Writer

The Man From Home

1914 · Editor, Director, Writer, Producer

Ready Money

1914 · Writer

What's His Name

1914 · Writer, Director, Editor, Producer

The Virginian

1914 · Director, Editor

The Call of the North

1914 · Director

The Man on the Box

The Man on the Box

1914 · Director

The Only Son

1914 · Director

Lord Chumley

1914 · Theatre Play

The Master Mind

1914 · Director

Brewster's Millions

1914 · Director, Producer

The Squaw Man

1914 · Faro Dealer, Producer, Director, Writer

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