Cecil B. DeMille

Also known as Cecil Blount DeMille, Cecil B. de Mille, Cecil De Mille, Cecil B DeMille, Cecil B. De Mille

American film director, producer and actor (1881–1959)

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Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) was an American film producer, director, editor, and screenwriter. Born in Ashfield, he was educated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His notable works include *The Stampede*, *Cleopatra*, *Samson and Delilah*, *Madam Satan*, and his *Autobiography*. He was a member of the Republican Party and spoke English.

DeMille received several accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, and an Academy Honorary Award. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame recognizes his contributions to the industry.

He died of heart failure in Hollywood and is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. His father was Henry C. De Mille, his mother was Beatrice DeMille, and he had a sibling named William Churchill deMille. His child was Katherine DeMille.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1881
Died: 1959
Works: 11

Top works

The stampede
Cleopatra
Paramount presents Cecil B. De Mille's masterpiece Samson and Delilah
Madam Satan
Autobiography

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Film & TV

Directing · 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…

Known for

The U.S. and the Holocaust — Self (archive footage)2022
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2021
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2020
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II — Self2020
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle — Self (archive footage)2020
Hail Satan? — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2019
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2019
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille — Self2016
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe — Self (archive footage)2012
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (archive footage)2007

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1881
Active to: 1959

Official site Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 127
Total plays: 334

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American film director and film producer in both silent and sound films. DeMille began his career as a stage actor in 1900. He later moved on to writing and directing stage productions. He directed his first film, The Squaw Man, released in 1914 and would go on to direct dozens of silent films before transitioning to sound films in 1929. DeMille was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. <a href="https://www.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Common loss-of-function variants of the epidermal barrier protein filaggrin are a major predisposing factor for atopic dermatitis
· 2006 · cited 2,516x
The operation of the century: total hip replacement
· 2007 · cited 2,435x
The Nrf2-Antioxidant Response Element Signaling Pathway and Its Activation by Oxidative Stress
· 2009 · cited 2,319x
The Physiological Principle of Minimum Work
· 1926 · cited 1,765x
What i think and feel: A revised measure of children's manifest anxiety
· 1978 · cited 1,577x

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Quotes

“Legend rides high with history, but truth follows a lonely trail. I've pursued verity from the museum at Cairo to the smoking tepees of the Cheyennes at Lame Deer, Montana.”
“Most people never achieve stardom until they've had at least one good, serious siege of the grand passion. It doesn't hurt a career. It helps. Leatrice Joy was a smart, capable girl, she had beauty and talent and everything to make her a star. But she was marking time. Then she fell in love with John Gilbert and married him. It changed her completely. She seemed to bloom and blossom. And this new radiance showed in her work. She went right on to the top.”

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Official website

Cecil B. DeMille – Official Website

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Encyclopedic overview

Cecil Blount DeMille (/ˈsɛsəl dəˈmɪl/; August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959), often known in popular culture as Mr. DeMille, was an American filmmaker and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he created 70 features including silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history, with many films dominating the box office three or four at a time. 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.

Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, and raised in New York City, DeMille began his career as a stage actor in 1900. He later began to write and direct stage plays, a few with his older brother William de Mille, and some with Jesse L. Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer. DeMille's first film, The Squaw Man (1914), was the first full-length feature film shot in Hollywood. Its interracial love story was commercially successful, and the film marked Hollywood as the new home of the U.S. film industry. Based on continued film successes, DeMille founded Famous Players-Lasky, which was later reverse merged into 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 25 years.

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