Cecil B. DeMille
Directing
Born August 12, 1881 in Ashfield, États-Unis
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. It was DeMille who created the image of the omnipotent director, megaphone in hand, wearing boots and a visored cap. DeMille gave Hollywood numerous stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, William (“Hopalong Cassidy”) Boyd, Claudette Colbert, Robert Preston, Jean Arthur, and Charlton Heston.
Filmography
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Self (archive footage)
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II
Self
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
Self (archive footage)
Hail Satan?
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
Self
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Making of The Ten Commandments
Self
The Casting Couch
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Self (archive footage)
Hooray for Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage)
The Buccaneer
Presenter of Prologue
The Buster Keaton Story
Cecil B. DeMille
The Ten Commandments
Narrator (uncredited)
Cinépanorama
Self
The War of the Worlds
This Is Your Life
Self
Son of Paleface
Photographer (uncredited)
The Greatest Show on Earth
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Fallbrook Story
Self, Introduction
Sunset Boulevard
Cecil B. DeMille
What's My Line?
Self
Samson and Delilah
Narrator (uncredited)
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Unconquered
Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Variety Girl
Cecil B. DeMille
Jens Mons in America
Self (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Self
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
Reap the Wild Wind
Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
Star Spangled Rhythm
Cecil B. DeMille
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self
North West Mounted Police
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Movies March On
Self (archive footage)
Land of Liberty
Union Pacific
The Buccaneer
The Plainsman
Hollywood Extra Girl
Cecil B. DeMille
The Crusades
Cleopatra
Four Frightened People
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
This Day and Age
The Sign of the Cross
The Squaw Man
Madam Satan
Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Estrellados
Self (Guest Appearance)
Free and Easy
Director Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)
Dynamite
The Godless Girl
Let 'Er Go Gallegher
The Circus: Premiere
Self
The Angel of Broadway
The Fighting Eagle
Life in Hollywood No. 1
Self
Vanity
The King of Kings
White Gold
Life in Hollywood
Self
The Cruise of the Jasper B
The Volga Boatman
Silence
Whispering Smith
Red Dice
The Wedding Song
The Road to Yesterday
The Dressmaker from Paris
The Golden Bed
Feet of Clay
Triumph
The Ten Commandments
Adam's Rib
Hollywood
Cecil B. DeMille
Manslaughter
A Trip to Paramountown
Self
Saturday Night
Fool's Paradise
The Affairs of Anatol
Forbidden Fruit
Something to Think About
Why Change Your Wife?
Male and Female
For Better, for Worse
Don't Change Your Husband
The Squaw Man
Till I Come Back to You
We Can't Have Everything
Old Wives for New
The Whispering Chorus
The Devil Stone
Nan of Music Mountain
The Woman God Forgot
The Little American
A Romance of the Redwoods
Lost and Won
Betty to the Rescue
Joan the Woman
The Dream Girl
Maria Rosa
The Heart of Nora Flynn
The Love Mask
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
The Golden Chance
Temptation
The Cheat
Chimmie Fadden Out West
Carmen
Chimmie Fadden
The Arab
The Wild Goose Chase
The Captive
The Unafraid
The Warrens of Virginia
After Five
The Girl of the Golden West
The Ghost Breaker
The Circus Man
The Rose of the Rancho
The Man From Home
Ready Money
What's His Name
The Virginian
The Call of the North
The Only Son
The Master Mind
Brewster's Millions
The Squaw Man
Faro Dealer