Cecil B. DeMille
Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA — Aug 12 1881• Died Jan 21 1959
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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…
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What's My Line?
Self
The Ten Commandments
Narrator (uncredited)
This Is Your Life
Self
Sunset Boulevard
Cecil B. DeMille
The War of the Worlds
Production
Samson and Delilah
Narrator (uncredited)
Son of Paleface
Photographer (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Union Pacific
Directing
Unconquered
Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Plainsman
Directing
Variety Girl
Cecil B. DeMille
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Self (archive footage)
The Buccaneer
Production
The Greatest Show on Earth
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
North West Mounted Police
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Madam Satan
Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
The King of Kings
Directing
Reap the Wild Wind
Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
The Ten Commandments
Production
Cleopatra
Production
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self
Male and Female
Directing
Hail Satan?
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Squaw Man
Directing
Manslaughter
Directing
The Buccaneer
Directing
The Cheat
Editing
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
Cecil B. DeMille
Dynamite
Directing
Joan the Woman
Directing
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
Vanity
Production
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Crusades
Directing
The Affairs of Anatol
Directing
Land of Liberty
Editing
Lord Chumley
Writing
Forbidden Fruit
Directing
Triumph
Production
Free and Easy
Director Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)
Estrellados
Self (Guest Appearance)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Star Spangled Rhythm
Cecil B. DeMille
A Trip to Paramountown
Self
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night
Directing
The Buster Keaton Story
Cecil B. DeMille
Hooray for Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Unafraid
Directing
The Dressmaker from Paris
Production
Carmen
Directing
The Godless Girl
Directing
Why Change Your Wife?
Directing
Adam's Rib
Directing
The Woman God Forgot
Directing
The Golden Bed
Directing
The Captive
Directing
Four Frightened People
Directing
Old Wives for New
Directing
Nan of Music Mountain
Directing
The Virginian
Directing
The Squaw Man
Faro Dealer
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Self
The Little American
Directing
The Sign of the Cross
Directing
Feet of Clay
Directing
For Better, for Worse
Directing
The Only Son
Directing
Maria Rosa
Directing
White Gold
Production
The Volga Boatman
Directing
Ready Money
Writing
Kindling
Directing
Lost and Won
Production
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
After Five
Directing
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Fighting Eagle
Production
The Love Mask
Writing
This Day and Age
Directing
Whispering Smith
Production
The Road to Yesterday
Directing
The Dream Girl
Directing
Silence
Production
The Arab
Production
The Making of The Ten Commandments
Self
Till I Come Back to You
Directing
The Whispering Chorus
Directing
The Squaw Man
Directing
The Ghost Breaker
Directing
A Romance of the Redwoods
Directing
We Can't Have Everything
Directing
The Girl of the Golden West
Directing
Something to Think About
Directing
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
Self (archive footage)
Chimmie Fadden
Directing
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Self (archive footage)
The Angel of Broadway
Production
Temptation
Editing
The Rose of the Rancho
Editing
The Master Mind
Directing
Betty to the Rescue
Production
Hollywood Extra Girl
Cecil B. DeMille
The Circus: Premiere
Self
The Circus Man
Writing
The Movies March On
Self (archive footage)
Red Dice
Crew
The Golden Chance
Directing
The Devil Stone
Directing
Don't Change Your Husband
Directing
The Man From Home
Directing
The Fallbrook Story
Self, Introduction
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II
Self
The Call of the North
Directing
The Casting Couch
Life in Hollywood No. 1
Self
The Wedding Song
Production
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Directing
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
Self
The Heart of Nora Flynn
Directing
The Cruise of the Jasper B
Production
Chimmie Fadden Out West
Directing
Brewster's Millions
Directing
Let 'Er Go Gallegher
Production
The Warrens of Virginia
Directing
The Man on the Box
Directing
Fool's Paradise
Directing
The Hollywood You Never See
Self
The Wild Goose Chase
Directing
What's His Name
Directing
Jens Mons in America
Self (uncredited)