Cecil B. DeMille

Personal Info

Birthday

August 12, 1881

Day of Death

1959-01-21

(77 years old)

Place of Birth

Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA

Cecil B. DeMille

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.

Known For

The Ten Commandments

Sunset Boulevard

Hollywood

Samson and Delilah

Reap the Wild Wind

The Greatest Show on Earth

North West Mounted Police

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Filmography

2021
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2020
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II
as Self
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Hail Satan?
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2016
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
as Self
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Making of The Ten Commandments
as Self
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as Self (archive footage)
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
Showbiz Ballyhoo
as Self (archive footage)
1976
Hooray for Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1957
The Buster Keaton Story
as Cecil B. DeMille
1956
The Ten Commandments
as Narrator (uncredited)
1952
Son of Paleface
as Photographer (uncredited)
The Greatest Show on Earth
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Fallbrook Story
as Self, Introduction
1950
Sunset Boulevard
as Cecil B. DeMille
1949
Samson and Delilah
as Narrator (uncredited)
1947
Unconquered
as Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Variety Girl
as Cecil B. DeMille
Jens Mons in America
as Self (uncredited)
1945
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
as Self
1944
The Story of Dr. Wassell
as Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
as Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
Star Spangled Rhythm
as Cecil B. DeMille
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self
1940
North West Mounted Police
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1939
The Movies March On
as Self (archive footage)
1935
Hollywood Extra Girl
as Cecil B. DeMille
1934
The Hollywood You Never See
as Self
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1930
Madam Satan
as Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Estrellados
as Self (Guest Appearance)
Free and Easy
as Director Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)
1928
The Circus: Premiere
as Self
1927
Life in Hollywood No. 1
as Self
1923
Hollywood
as Cecil B. DeMille
1922
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
1914
The Squaw Man
as Faro Dealer