Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959)

Producer | Director | Editor

His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights. His father died when he was 12,...

Born: August 12, 1881
Died: January 21, 1959 (age 77)

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Filmography

Known For

The Ten Commandments Producer (1956)
The Greatest Show on Earth Producer (1952)
Sunset Blvd. Cecil B. DeMille (1950)
Known For

Samson and Delilah Producer (1949)
Producer

The Buccaneer (1958)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Unconquered (1947)
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Air Force: The Radio Play (1943)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
Union Pacific (1939)
The Buccaneer (1938)
The Plainsman (1936)
The Crusades (1935)
Cleopatra (1934)
Four Frightened People (1934)
This Day and Age (1933)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
The Squaw Man (1931)
Madam Satan (1930)
Dynamite (1929)
The Godless Girl (1928)
Walking Back (1928)
Hold 'Em Yale (1928)
Let 'Er Go Gallegher (1928)
The Angel of Broadway (1927)
The Fighting Eagle (1927)
Vanity (1927)
The King of Kings (1927)
The Yankee Clipper (1927)
White Gold (1927)
The Cruise of the Jasper B (1926)
Her Man o' War (1926)
The Volga Boatman (1926)
Whispering Smith (1926)
The Road to Yesterday (1925)
The Coming of Amos (1925)
The Dressmaker from Paris (1925)
The Golden Bed (1925)
Feet of Clay (1924)
Triumph (1924)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
Adam's Rib (1923)
Manslaughter (1922)
Saturday Night (1922)
Fool's Paradise (1921)
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Forbidden Fruit (1921)
Something to Think About (1920)
Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
Male and Female (1919)
For Better, for Worse (1919)
Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
The Squaw Man (1918)
Till I Come Back to You (1918)
We Can't Have Everything (1918)
Old Wives for New (1918)
The Whispering Chorus (1918)
The Devil-Stone (1917)
The Woman God Forgot (1917)
The Little American (1917)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
Castles for Two (1917)
Lost and Won (1917)
Joan the Woman (1916)
The Dream Girl (1916)
Maria Rosa (1916)
The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916)
Temptation (1915)
The Golden Chance (1915)
The Cheat (1915)
Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915)
Carmen (1915)
Kindling (1915)
Chimmie Fadden (1915)
The Arab (1915)
The Wild Goose Chase (1915)
The Captive (1915)
The Unafraid (1915)
The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
The Girl of the Golden West (1915)
The Ghost Breaker (1914)
Rose of the Rancho (1914)
The Man from Home (1914)
What's His Name (1914)
The Call of the North (1914)
Brewster's Millions (1914)
Producer

The Squaw Man (1914)
Director

The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
California's Golden Beginning (1948)
Unconquered (1947)
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
Land of Liberty (1939)
Union Pacific (1939)
The Buccaneer (1938)
The Plainsman (1936)
The Crusades (1935)
Cleopatra (1934)
Four Frightened People (1934)
This Day and Age (1933)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
The Squaw Man (1931)
Madam Satan (1930)
Dynamite (1929)
The Godless Girl (1928)
Walking Back (1928)
The King of Kings (1927)
The Volga Boatman (1926)
The Road to Yesterday (1925)
The Golden Bed (1925)
Feet of Clay (1924)
Triumph (1924)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
Adam's Rib (1923)
Manslaughter (1922)
Saturday Night (1922)
Fool's Paradise (1921)
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Forbidden Fruit (1921)
Something to Think About (1920)
Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
Male and Female (1919)
For Better, for Worse (1919)
Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
The Squaw Man (1918)
Till I Come Back to You (1918)
We Can't Have Everything (1918)
Old Wives for New (1918)
The Whispering Chorus (1918)
The Devil-Stone (1917)
Nan of Music Mountain (1917)
The Woman God Forgot (1917)
The Little American (1917)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
Lost and Won (1917)
Joan the Woman (1916)
The Dream Girl (1916)
Maria Rosa (1916)
The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916)
Temptation (1915)
The Golden Chance (1915)
The Cheat (1915)
Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915)
Carmen (1915)
Kindling (1915)
Chimmie Fadden (1915)
The Arab (1915)
The Wild Goose Chase (1915)
The Captive (1915)
The Unafraid (1915)
The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
After Five (1915)
The Girl of the Golden West (1915)
The Ghost Breaker (1914)
Rose of the Rancho (1914)
The Man from Home (1914)
What's His Name (1914)
The Virginian (1914)
The Call of the North (1914)
The Man on the Box (1914)
The Only Son (1914)
The Master Mind (1914)
Brewster's Millions (1914)
Director

The Squaw Man (1914)
Writer

The Night Club (1925)
Forbidden Fruit (1921)
The Little American (1917)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
The Love Mask (1916)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916)
The Golden Chance (1915)
Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915)
Kindling (1915)
Chimmie Fadden (1915)
The Arab (1915)
The Captive (1915)
The Unafraid (1915)
After Five (1915)
The Girl of the Golden West (1915)
The Ghost Breaker (1914)
The Circus Man (1914)
Rose of the Rancho (1914)
The Man from Home (1914)
What's His Name (1914)
Lord Chumley (1914)
Writer

The Squaw Man (1914)
Actor

The Buccaneer Cecile B. DMille - Prologue (1958)
The Buster Keaton Story Cecil B. DeMille (1957)
The Ten Commandments Narrator (1956)
Son of Paleface Photographer (1952)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life Speaker (1952)
The Greatest Show on Earth Narrator (1952)
Sunset Blvd. Cecil B. DeMille (1950)
Samson and Delilah Narrator (1949)
Unconquered Narrator (1947)
Variety Girl Cecil B. DeMille (1947)
The Story of Dr. Wassell Voice of Narrator (1944)
Star Spangled Rhythm Cecil B. DeMille (1942)
Reap the Wild Wind Prologue Speaker (1942)
North West Mounted Police Narrator (1940)
Hollywood Extra Girl Cecil B. DeMille (1935)
Madam Satan Radio Newscaster (1930)
Free and Easy Director Cecil B. DeMille (1930)
Hollywood Cecil B. DeMille (1923)
Actor

The Squaw Man Faro Dealer (1914)
Archive footage

Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020)
The ComicWeb: Old Time Radio Programs (2020)
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2019)
Hail Satan? (2019)
Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes (2018)
America in Color (2018)
An Informal Conversation with Billy Wilder (2018)
The Best of Hollywood (2017)
And the Oscar Goes to... (2014)
Extraordinary Women (2011)
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
The Ten Commandments: Making Miracles (2011)
A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (2009)
Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer (2009)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
The Lonely Gunfighter: The Legacy of Cheyenne (2006)
Valley of the Dreamers (2004)
Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)
Central Casting (2000)
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (2000)
The Best of Hollywood (1998)
The DeMille Dynasty (1998)
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996)
American Experience (1996)
The Casting Couch (1995)
The Bible According to Hollywood (1994)
American Masters (1993)
All-Time Movie Greats (1988)
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982)
Hooray for Hollywood (1982)
Spécial cinéma (1982)
Hollywood (1980)
Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
V.I.P.-Schaukel (1973)
Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)
This Is Your Life (1954)
Archive footage

The Movies March On (1939)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933)
Editor

Land of Liberty (1939)
We Can't Have Everything (1918)
Old Wives for New (1918)
The Whispering Chorus (1918)
The Devil-Stone (1917)
The Woman God Forgot (1917)
The Little American (1917)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
Joan the Woman (1916)
The Dream Girl (1916)
Maria Rosa (1916)
The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916)
Temptation (1915)
The Golden Chance (1915)
The Cheat (1915)
Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915)
Carmen (1915)
Kindling (1915)
Chimmie Fadden (1915)
The Arab (1915)
The Wild Goose Chase (1915)
The Captive (1915)
The Unafraid (1915)
The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
The Girl of the Golden West (1915)
Rose of the Rancho (1914)
The Man from Home (1914)
What's His Name (1914)
Editor

The Virginian (1914)
Additional Crew

The Godless Girl (1928)
Chicago (1927)
Fighting Love (1927)
Eve's Leaves (1926)
Silence (1926)
Red Dice (1926)
Three Faces East (1926)
Made for Love (1926)
Braveheart (1925)
The Wedding Song (1925)
The Coming of Amos (1925)
Changing Husbands (1924)
The Secret Game (1917)
A Mormon Maid (1917)
Betty to the Rescue (1917)
The Secret Sin (1915)
Additional Crew

Young Romance (1915)
The Virginian (1914)
Music Department

The King of Kings (1927)
Production Manager

The Buccaneer (1958)

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Awards

Did You Know

According to his casting agent, DeMille spent a lot of time casting the female roles of his films because he was always searching for actresses who were not only beautiful and talented but also professional and easy to work with.

Quotes

[to Victor Mature] Vic, they say I'm corny. All right, what is corn? It's food that springs from the heart of our America. Iowa, Kansas, Missouri. It feeds our people. It feeds the starving of Europe - of the world. Vic, I'm glad to be corny.