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Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959)

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His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights. His father died when he was 12, and his mother supported the family by opening a school for girls and a theatrical company. Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American War, Cecil followed his brother William C. de Mille to the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts... See full bio »

Born:

Cecil Blount DeMille
in Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA

Died:

(age 77) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cecil B. DeMille and Edna Shotwell Cecil B. DeMille c. 1935 Cecil B. DeMille Cecil B. DeMille
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1958 The Buccaneer (supervising executive producer)
 
1956 The Ten Commandments (producer - as Cecil B. de Mille)
 
1953 The War of the Worlds (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth (producer)
 
1951 When Worlds Collide (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1949 Samson and Delilah (producer)
 
1947 Unconquered (producer - as Cecil B. De Mille)
 
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell (producer)
 
1942 Reap the Wild Wind (producer - as Cecil B. De Mille)
 
1940 North West Mounted Police (producer)
 
1939 Union Pacific (producer)
 
1938 The Buccaneer (producer)
 
1936 The Plainsman (producer)
 
1935 The Crusades (producer)
 
1934 Cleopatra (producer)
 
1934 Four Frightened People (producer)
 
1933 This Day and Age (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 The Sign of the Cross (producer - as Cecil B. De Mille)
 
1931 The Squaw Man (producer - as Cecil B. De Mille)
 
1930 Madam Satan (producer)
 
1929 Dynamite (producer)
 
1929 The Godless Girl (producer)
 
1928 Walking Back (producer - uncredited)
 
1928 Hold 'Em Yale (producer)
 
1928 Let 'Er Go Gallegher (executive producer)
 
1927 The Angel of Broadway (producer)
 
1927 The Fighting Eagle (executive producer)
 
1927 Vanity (producer)
 
1927 The King of Kings (producer)
 
1927 The Yankee Clipper (producer)
 
1927 White Gold (producer)
 
1926 The Cruise of the Jasper B (producer)
 
1926 Her Man o' War (producer)
 
1926 The Volga Boatman (producer)
 
1926 Whispering Smith (producer)
 
1925 The Road to Yesterday (producer)
 
1925 The Coming of Amos (producer)
 
1925 The Dressmaker from Paris (supervising producer)
 
1925 The Golden Bed (producer)
 
1924 Feet of Clay (producer)
 
1924 Triumph (producer)
 
1923 The Ten Commandments (producer)
 
1923 Adam's Rib (producer)
 
1922 Manslaughter (producer)
 
1922 Saturday Night (producer)
 
1921 Fool's Paradise (producer)
 
1921 The Affairs of Anatol (producer - as Cecil B. De Mille)
 
1921 Forbidden Fruit (producer)
 
1920 Something to Think About (producer)
 
1920 Why Change Your Wife? (producer)
 
1919 Male and Female (producer)
 
1919 For Better, for Worse (producer)
 
1919 Don't Change Your Husband (producer)
 
1918 The Squaw Man (producer)
 
1918 Till I Come Back to You (producer)
 
1918 We Can't Have Everything (producer)
 
1918 Old Wives for New (producer)
 
1918 The Whispering Chorus (producer)
 
1917 The Devil-Stone (producer)
 
1917 The Woman God Forgot (producer)
 
1917 The Little American (producer)
 
1917 A Romance of the Redwoods (producer)
 
1917 Lost and Won (producer)
 
1916 Joan the Woman (producer)
 
1916 The Dream Girl (producer)
 
1916 Maria Rosa (producer)
 
1916 The Heart of Nora Flynn (producer)
 
1916 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (producer)
 
1915 Temptation (producer)
 
1915/I The Golden Chance (producer)
 
1915 The Cheat (producer)
 
1915 Chimmie Fadden Out West (producer)
 
1915/I Carmen (producer)
 
1915 Kindling (producer)
 
1915 Chimmie Fadden (producer)
 
1915 The Arab (producer)
 
1915 The Wild Goose Chase (producer - uncredited)
 
1915 The Captive (producer)
 
1915 The Unafraid (producer - uncredited)
 
1915 The Warrens of Virginia (producer - uncredited)
 
1915 The Girl of the Golden West (producer)
 
1914 The Ghost Breaker (producer)
 
1914 Rose of the Rancho (producer)
 
1914 The Man from Home (producer)
 
1914 What's His Name (producer)
 
1914 The Call of the North (producer - uncredited)
 
1914 Brewster's Millions (producer - uncredited)
 
1914 The Squaw Man (producer - uncredited)
 
Show ShowDirector (80 titles)
1956 The Ten Commandments (as Cecil B. de Mille)
 
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
 
1949 Samson and Delilah
 
1948 California's Golden Beginning (short)
 
1947 Unconquered (as Cecil B. De Mille)
 
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell
 
1942 Reap the Wild Wind (as Cecil B. De Mille)
 
1940 North West Mounted Police
 
1939 Union Pacific
 
1938 The Buccaneer
 
1936 The Plainsman
 
1935 The Crusades
 
1934 Cleopatra
 
1934 Four Frightened People
 
1933 This Day and Age
 
1932 The Sign of the Cross (as Cecil B. De Mille)
 
1931 The Squaw Man (as Cecil B. De Mille)
 
1930 Madam Satan
 
1929 Dynamite
 
1929 The Godless Girl
 
1928 Walking Back (uncredited)
 
1927 The King of Kings
 
1926 The Volga Boatman
 
1925 The Road to Yesterday
 
1925 The Golden Bed
 
1924 Feet of Clay
 
1924 Triumph
 
1923 The Ten Commandments
 
1923 Adam's Rib
 
1922 Manslaughter
 
1922 Saturday Night
 
1921 Fool's Paradise
 
1921 The Affairs of Anatol (uncredited)
 
1921 Forbidden Fruit
 
1920 Something to Think About
 
1920 Why Change Your Wife?
 
1919 Male and Female
 
1919 For Better, for Worse
 
1919 Don't Change Your Husband
 
1918 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
 
1917 The Devil-Stone
 
1917 Nan of Music Mountain (short) (uncredited)
 
1917 The Woman God Forgot
 
1917 The Little American (uncredited)
 
1917 A Romance of the Redwoods
 
1917 Lost and Won (uncredited)
 
1916 Joan the Woman
 
1916 The Dream Girl
 
1916 Maria Rosa
 
1916 The Heart of Nora Flynn
 
1916 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
 
1915 Temptation
 
1915/I The Golden Chance
 
1915 The Cheat (uncredited)
 
1915 Chimmie Fadden Out West
 
1915/I 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
 
1914 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 (co-director - uncredited)
 
1914 The Only Son
 
1914 The Master Mind (uncredited)
 
1914 Brewster's Millions
 
1914 The Squaw Man (uncredited)
 
Show ShowEditor (30 titles)
1939 Land of Liberty
 
1918 We Can't Have Everything
 
1918 Old Wives for New
 
1918 The Whispering Chorus
 
1917 The Devil-Stone
 
1917 The Woman God Forgot
 
1917 The Little American (uncredited)
 
1917 A Romance of the Redwoods
 
1916 Joan the Woman
 
1916 The Dream Girl
 
1916 Maria Rosa
 
1916 The Heart of Nora Flynn
 
1916 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
 
1915 Temptation
 
1915/I The Golden Chance
 
1915 The Cheat (uncredited)
 
1915 Chimmie Fadden Out West
 
1915/I Carmen
 
1915 Kindling
 
1915 Chimmie Fadden
 
1915 The Arab
 
1915 The Wild Goose Chase (uncredited)
 
1915 The Captive
 
1915 The Unafraid (uncredited)
 
1915 The Warrens of Virginia (uncredited)
 
1915 The Girl of the Golden West
 
1914 Rose of the Rancho
 
1914 The Man from Home
 
1914 What's His Name
 
1914 The Virginian (uncredited)
 
Show ShowWriter (22 titles)
1925 The Night Club (play "After Five")
 
1921 Forbidden Fruit (story "The Golden Chance")
 
1917 The Little American (uncredited)
 
1917 A Romance of the Redwoods (play "Maedchen fuer alles")
 
1916 The Love Mask
 
1916 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (story)
 
1915/I The Golden Chance (story)
 
1915 Chimmie Fadden Out West
 
1915 Kindling
 
1915 Chimmie Fadden
 
1915 The Arab (story)
 
1915 The Captive (based on the play by)
 
1915 The Unafraid (story - uncredited)
 
1915 After Five (play)
 
1915 The Girl of the Golden West (scenario)
 
1914 The Ghost Breaker
 
1914 The Circus Man (uncredited)
 
1914 Rose of the Rancho (scenario)
 
1914 The Man from Home (story)
 
1914 What's His Name
 
1914 Lord Chumley (short) (play)
 
1914 The Squaw Man (picturizer / as Cecil B. De Mille)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (16 titles)
1927 Chicago (supervisor)
 
1927 Fighting Love (supervisor)
 
1926 Eve's Leaves (presenter)
 
1926/I Silence (presenter)
 
1926 Red Dice (presenter)
 
1926 Three Faces East (presenter)
 
1926 Made for Love (presenter)
 
1925 Braveheart (presenter)
 
1925 The Wedding Song (presenter, supervisor)
 
1925 The Coming of Amos (presenter)
 
1924 Changing Husbands (supervisor)
 
1917 The Secret Game (director general)
 
1917 Betty to the Rescue (director general)
 
1915 The Secret Sin (director general)
 
1915 Young Romance (director general)
 
1914 The Virginian (director general)
 
Show ShowActor (13 titles)
1956 The Ten Commandments
Narrator (uncredited)
 
1952 Son of Paleface
Photographer (uncredited)
 
1952 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (short)
Speaker
 
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 
1949 Samson and Delilah
Narrator (uncredited)
 
1947 Unconquered
Narrator (uncredited)
 
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell
Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
 
1942 Star Spangled Rhythm
Cecil B. DeMille
 
1942 Reap the Wild Wind
Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
 
1940 North West Mounted Police
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 
1937 The Last Train from Madrid
Extra in Crowd Scene (uncredited)
 
1930 Madam Satan
Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
 
1914 The Squaw Man
Faro Dealer (uncredited)
 
Show ShowProduction Manager (1 title)
1958 The Buccaneer (supervisor)
 
Show ShowSelf (29 titles)
1958 The Buccaneer
Himself - prologue (uncredited)
 
1957 Cinépanorama (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode dated 21 November 1957 (1957) … Himself
 
1957 The Heart of Show Business (short)
Himself, Narrator
 
1957 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Himself
– Jesse L. Lasky (1957) … Himself
 
1957 The Buster Keaton Story
Himself
 
1957 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #10.22 (1957) … Himself
 
1954 The 26th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter: Best Picture
 
1953 The 25th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Best Picture Winner, as producer
 
1952 What's My Line? (TV series)
Himself - Mystery Guest
– Episode dated 18 May 1952 (1952) … Himself - Mystery Guest
 
1952 The Ken Murray Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 12 January 1952 (1952) … Himself
 
1951 Screen Snapshots: The Great Director (documentary short)
Himself - 'The Great Director'
 
1950 Sunset Blvd.
Himself
 
1950 History Brought to Life (documentary short)
Host/Narrator (uncredited)
 
1947 Variety Girl
Himself
 
1947 Jens Mansson in America
Himself (uncredited)
 
1947 KTLA Premiere (TV movie)
Himself
 
1945 Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1: 25th Anniversary (documentary short)
Himself
 
1941 Glamour Boy
Himself (uncredited)
 
1935 Hollywood Extra Girl (documentary short)
Himself
 
1934 The Hollywood You Never See (documentary short)
Himself
 
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (short)
Himself
 
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1931 Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 6 (short)
Himself
 
1930 Estrellados
Himself (Guest Appearance) (uncredited)
 
1930 Free and Easy
Himself (uncredited)
 
1923 Hollywood
Himself, Cameo appearance
 
1922 A Trip to Paramountown (documentary short)
Himself
 
1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 1 (documentary short)
Himself
 
1921 Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 1-F (documentary short)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (20 titles)
2011 All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series documentary)
 
2009 A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2009 Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds' (video documentary short)
Photo
 
2004 Tal der Träumer (video short)
Himself
 
2004 Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2003 Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (video documentary)
Himself
 
2000 Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1998 The DeMille Dynasty (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1998 The Best of Hollywood (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (documentary)
Himself - Addresses Extras (uncredited)
 
1995 The Casting Couch (video documentary)
 
1994 The Bible According to Hollywood (video documentary)
Himself
 
1983 Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1980 Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (documentary)
Himself
 
1975 Hooray for Hollywood (documentary)
Himself
 
1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up (documentary)
Himself
 
1939 The Movies March On (documentary short)
Himself
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1901). Stage Play: To Have and to Hold. Drama. Written by E.F. Boddington. Directed by Edward E. Rose. Knickerbocker Theatre: 4 Mar 1901- Apr 1901 (closing date unknown/40 performances). Cast: Lottie Alter, Holbrook Blinn (as "Lord Carnal"), Robert Broderick, J.M. Colville, Dore Davidson, Cecil B. DeMille... See more »

Publicity Listings:

3 Biographical Movies  | 10 Print Biographies  | 12 Articles  | See more »

Official Sites:

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Alternate Names:

Cecil B. De Mille | Cecil B. de Mille

Height:

5' 10" (1.78 m)
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Personal Quote:

It was a theory that died very hard that the public would not stand for anyone dressed in clothes of another period . . . I got around this objection by staging what we call a vision. The poor working girl was dreaming of love and reading "Tristan and Isolde". The scene faded out, and scenes were depicted on the screen that the girl was supposed to be reading ... See more »

Trivia:

He was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party. See more »

Trademark:

Film epics, religious or otherwise. See more »

Nickname:

C.B. See more »

Star Sign:

Leo