
Biography
Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants. He was an active Freemason and member of Prince of Orange Lodge #16 in New York City.DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, and grew up in New York City. He began his career as a stage actor in 1900. He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer. DeMille's first film, The Squaw Man (1914), was also the first full-length feature film shot in Hollywood. Its interracial love story made it commercially successful, and it first publicized Hollywood as the home of the U.S. film industry. The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor. His first biblical epic, The Ten Commandments (1923), was both a critical and commercial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty-five years.
DeMille directed The King of Kings (1927), a biography of Jesus, which gained approval for its sensitivity and reached more than 800 million viewers. The Sign of the Cross (1932) is said to be the first sound film to integrate all aspects of cinematic technique. Cleopatra (1934) was his first film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. After more than thirty years in film production, DeMille reached a pinnacle in his career with Samson and Delilah (1949), a biblical epic that became the highest-grossing film of 1950. Along with biblical and historical narratives, he also directed films oriented toward "neo-naturalism", which tried to portray the laws of man fighting the forces of nature.
He received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. His last and best known film, The Ten Commandments (1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the eighth-highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. In addition to his Best Picture Awards, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d'Or (posthumously) for Union Pacific (1939), a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was named in his honor. DeMille's reputation had a renaissance in the 2010s, and his work has influenced numerous other films and directors.
Filmography
All 139
Movies 135
Director 69
Self 37
Producer 23
Writter 5
TV Shows 4
Narrator 1

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age (2021)

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent (2020)

Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II (2020)

Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle (2020)

Hail Satan? (2019)

Sword-and-Sandal (2019)

The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille (2016)

And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)

The Casting Couch (1995)

The Bible According to Hollywood (1994)

Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963)

The Buccaneer (1958)

The Buster Keaton Story (1957)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Cinépanorama (1956)

The War of the Worlds (1953)

This Is Your Life (1952)

Son of Paleface (1952)

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

The Fallbrook Story (1952)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

History Brought to Life (1950)

What's My Line? (1950)

Samson and Delilah (1949)

The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)

California's Golden Beginning (1948)

Unconquered (1947)

Variety Girl (1947)

Jens Mons in America (1947)

Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary (1945)

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)

North West Mounted Police (1940)

The Movies March On (1939)

Land of Liberty (1939)

Union Pacific (1939)

The Buccaneer (1938)

The Plainsman (1936)

Hollywood Extra Girl (1935)

The Crusades (1935)

Cleopatra (1934)

Four Frightened People (1934)

The Hollywood You Never See (1934)

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933)

This Day and Age (1933)

The Sign of the Cross (1932)

The Squaw Man (1931)

Madam Satan (1930)

Estrellados (1930)

Free and Easy (1930)

Dynamite (1929)

The Godless Girl (1929)

Walking Back (1928)

Hold 'Em Yale (1928)

Let'er Go Gallegher (1928)

The Circus: Premiere (1928)

The Angel of Broadway (1927)

The Fighting Eagle (1927)

Life in Hollywood No. 1 (1927)

Vanity (1927)

The Yankee Clipper (1927)

The King of Kings (1927)

White Gold (1927)

The Cruise of the Jasper B (1926)

Her Man o' War (1926)

The Volga Boatman (1926)

Silence (1926)

Whispering Smith (1926)

Red Dice (1926)

The Wedding Song (1925)

The Road to Yesterday (1925)

The Coming of Amos (1925)

The Night Club (1925)

The Dressmaker from Paris (1925)

The Golden Bed (1925)

Feet of Clay (1924)

Triumph (1924)

The Ten Commandments (1923)

Adam's Rib (1923)

Hollywood (1923)

Manslaughter (1922)

A Trip to Paramountown (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 Love Mask (1916)

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916)

The Golden Chance (1915)

Temptation (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)

The Circus Man (1914)

The Rose of the Rancho (1914)

The Man From Home (1914)

Ready Money (1914)

What's His Name (1914)

The Virginian (1914)

The Call of the North (1914)

Lord Chumley (1914)

Brewster's Millions (1914)

The Squaw Man (1914)

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Information
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1881-08-12
Deathday1959-01-21 (77 years old)
Place of birthAshfield, United States of America
Height
RelationshipsConstance Adams DeMille (1902-01-01 - 1959-01-01)
ChildrenRichard de Mille, Katherine DeMille
FatherHenry C. De Mille
MotherBeatrice DeMille
SiblingsWilliam Churchill deMille, William C. deMille
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsGolden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Academy Award for Best Picture, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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