Cecil B. DeMille
Birthday
1881/08/12
Day of death
1959/01/21 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA
Also know as
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Biography
Cecil Blount DeMille was 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. I...Read more
Acting
(1950) Sunset Boulevard
as Cecil B. DeMille
(1930) Estrellados
as Self (Guest Appearance)
(2020) Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
(1923) Hollywood
as Cecil B. DeMille
(1942) Reap the Wild Wind
as Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
(1927) Life in Hollywood No. 1
as Self
(1942) Star Spangled Rhythm
as Cecil B. DeMille
(1947) Variety Girl
as Cecil B. DeMille
(1983) Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1957) The Buster Keaton Story
as Cecil B. DeMille
(1945) Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
as Self
(1942) Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self
(1952) Son of Paleface
as Photographer (uncredited)
(1984) Going Hollywood: The '30s
as Self (archive footage)
(1922) A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
(1928) The Circus: Premiere
as Self
(2019) Hail Satan?
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
(1933) Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1949) Samson and Delilah
as Narrator (uncredited)
(1930) Free and Easy
as Director Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)
(1940) North West Mounted Police
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1952) The Greatest Show on Earth
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1944) The Story of Dr. Wassell
as Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
(1930) Madam Satan
as Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
(1935) Hollywood Extra Girl
as Cecil B. DeMille
(2016) The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
as Self
(1975) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1947) Jens Mons in America
as Self (uncredited)
(2019) Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
(2007) Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(1947) Unconquered
as Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1939) The Movies March On
as Self (archive footage)
(1934) The Hollywood You Never See
as Self
(1956) The Ten Commandments
as Narrator
(2020) Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II
as Self
(2020) Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
as Self (archive footage)
(1952) The Fallbrook Story
as Self, Introduction
(2021) Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
(1976) Hooray for Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1952) This Is Your Life
as Self
(1974) Spécial cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
(1956) Cinépanorama
as Self
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self