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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille

Director · Born 1881-08-12 · Ashfield, États-Unis

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Biography

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 editor, art director, and concept artist. He was one of the first to use theatrical lighting on a movie set. In the late 1920s, when Hollywood converted to sound films, DeMille defied the sound experts, liberating the camera from a confining booth, and implementing the microphone boom. DeMille’s a…

Directed

  1. The Ten Commandments (1956) — Director
  2. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) — Director
  3. Samson and Delilah (1949) — Director
  4. Cleopatra (1934) — Director
  5. The Ten Commandments (1923) — Director
  6. Union Pacific (1939) — Director
  7. The Cheat (1915) — Director
  8. The King of Kings (1927) — Director
  9. Unconquered (1947) — Director
  10. Reap the Wild Wind (1942) — Director
  11. The Sign of the Cross (1932) — Director
  12. North West Mounted Police (1940) — Director
  13. The Plainsman (1936) — Director
  14. Madam Satan (1930) — Director
  15. Joan the Woman (1916) — Director
  16. Male and Female (1919) — Director
  17. Carmen (1915) — Director
  18. The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) — Director
  19. The Squaw Man (1914) — Director
  20. The Little American (1917) — Director
  21. Four Frightened People (1934) — Director
  22. Why Change Your Wife? (1920) — Director
  23. The Crusades (1935) — Director
  24. Don't Change Your Husband (1919) — Director
  25. The Godless Girl (1928) — Director
  26. Dynamite (1929) — Director
  27. The Whispering Chorus (1918) — Director
  28. A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) — Director
  29. Manslaughter (1922) — Director
  30. Forbidden Fruit (1921) — Director
  31. The Affairs of Anatol (1921) — Director
  32. The Virginian (1914) — Director
  33. The Buccaneer (1938) — Director
  34. The Squaw Man (1931) — Director
  35. For Better, for Worse (1919) — Director
  36. Old Wives for New (1918) — Director
  37. The Woman God Forgot (1917) — Director
  38. The Golden Chance (1915) — Director
  39. The Captive (1915) — Director
  40. Something to Think About (1920) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Sunset Boulevard (1950) — Cecil B. DeMille
  2. The Ten Commandments (1956) — Narrator (uncredited)
  3. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  4. Samson and Delilah (1949) — Narrator (uncredited)
  5. Hail Satan? (2019) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  6. Unconquered (1947) — Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  7. Reap the Wild Wind (1942) — Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
  8. The Buccaneer (1958) — Presenter of Prologue
  9. North West Mounted Police (1940) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  10. Son of Paleface (1952) — Photographer (uncredited)
  11. Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age (2021) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  12. What's My Line? (1950) — Self
  13. Madam Satan (1930) — Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
  14. The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) — Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
  15. The Squaw Man (1914) — Faro Dealer
  16. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
  17. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022) — Self (archive footage)
  18. Free and Easy (1930) — Director Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)
  19. This Is Your Life (1952) — Self
  20. Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) — Cecil B. DeMille
  21. Variety Girl (1947) — Cecil B. DeMille
  22. The Buster Keaton Story (1957) — Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)
  23. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) — Self (archive footage)
  24. Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic (2019) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  25. Yul Brynner, the Magnificent (2020) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  26. The Circus: Premiere (1928) — Self
  27. The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille (2016) — Self
  28. Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007) — Self (archive footage)
  29. Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe (2012) — Self (archive footage)
  30. A Trip to Paramountown (1922) — Self
  31. Hollywood (1923) — Cecil B. DeMille
  32. Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  33. Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II (2020) — Self
  34. The Casting Couch (1995)
  35. Cinépanorama (1956) — Self
  36. Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984) — Self (archive footage)
  37. Hollywood Extra Girl (1935) — Cecil B. DeMille
  38. Jens Mons in America (1947) — Self (uncredited)
  39. The Movies March On (1939) — Self (archive footage)
  40. Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle (2020) — Self (archive footage)