Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. Among his best-known films are The Ten Commandments (1956), Cleopatra (1934), and The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Movies Made by Cecil B. DeMille (94)

The Buccaneer (1958)

Executive Producer

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Director

The War of the Worlds (1953)

Executive Producer

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Director

Samson and Delilah (1949)

Director

Unconquered (1947)

Director

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)

Director

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Director

North West Mounted Police (1940)

Director

Land of Liberty (1939)

Editor

Union Pacific (1939)

Director

The Buccaneer (1938)

Director

The Plainsman (1936)

Director

The Crusades (1935)

Director

Cleopatra (1934)

Director

Four Frightened People (1934)

Director

This Day and Age (1933)

Director

The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Director

The Squaw Man (1931)

Director

Madam Satan (1930)

Director

Dynamite (1929)

Director

The Godless Girl (1928)

Director

Let 'Er Go Gallegher (1928)

Executive Producer

The Angel of Broadway (1927)

Producer

The Fighting Eagle (1927)

Producer

Vanity (1927)

Producer

The King of Kings (1927)

Director

White Gold (1927)

Producer

The Cruise of the Jasper B (1926)

Producer

The Volga Boatman (1926)

Director

Silence (1926)

Producer

Whispering Smith (1926)

Producer

Red Dice (1926)

Presenter

The Wedding Song (1925)

Producer

The Road to Yesterday (1925)

Director

The Dressmaker from Paris (1925)

Supervising Producer

The Golden Bed (1925)

Director

Feet of Clay (1924)

Director

Triumph (1924)

Director

The Ten Commandments (1923)

Director

Adam's Rib (1923)

Director

Manslaughter (1922)

Director

Saturday Night (1922)

Director

Fool's Paradise (1921)

Director

The Affairs of Anatol (1921)

Director

Forbidden Fruit (1921)

Director

Something to Think About (1920)

Director

Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

Director

Male and Female (1919)

Director

For Better, for Worse (1919)

Director

Don't Change Your Husband (1919)

Director

The Squaw Man (1918)

Director

Till I Come Back to You (1918)

Director

We Can't Have Everything (1918)

Director

Old Wives for New (1918)

Director

The Whispering Chorus (1918)

Director

The Devil Stone (1917)

Director

Nan of Music Mountain (1917)

Director

The Woman God Forgot (1917)

Director

The Little American (1917)

Director

A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)

Director

Lost and Won (1917)

Producer

Joan the Woman (1916)

Director

The Dream Girl (1916)

Director

Maria Rosa (1916)

Director

The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916)

Director

The Love Mask (1916)

Writer

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916)

Director

The Golden Chance (1915)

Director

Temptation (1915)

Director

The Cheat (1915)

Director

Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915)

Director

Carmen (1915)

Director

Kindling (1915)

Director

Chimmie Fadden (1915)

Director

The Arab (1915)

Director

The Wild Goose Chase (1915)

Director

The Captive (1915)

Director

The Unafraid (1915)

Director

The Warrens of Virginia (1915)

Director

After Five (1915)

Director

The Girl of the Golden West (1915)

Director

The Ghost Breaker (1914)

Director

The Circus Man (1914)

Writer

The Rose of the Rancho (1914)

Director

The Man From Home (1914)

Director

Ready Money (1914)

Writer

What's His Name (1914)

Director

The Virginian (1914)

Director

The Call of the North (1914)

Director

The Only Son (1914)

Director

Lord Chumley (1914)

Theatre Play

Brewster's Millions (1914)

Director

The Squaw Man (1914)

Director

Movies starring Cecil B. DeMille (43)

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

Self - Filmmaker (Archive Footage)

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent (2020)

Self - Filmmaker (Archive Footage)

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

Self

Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle (2020)

Self (Archive Footage)

Hail Satan? (2019)

Self - Filmmaker (Archive Footage)

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic (2019)

Self - Filmmaker (Archive Footage)

The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille (2016)

Self

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe (2012)

Self (Archive Footage)

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

Self (Archive Footage)

The Making of The Ten Commandments (2003)

Self

The Casting Couch (1995)
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)

Self (Archive Footage)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)

Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

Self (Archive Footage)

The Buccaneer (1958)

Presenter Of Prologue

The Buster Keaton Story (1957)

Cecil B. Demille

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Narrator (Uncredited)

Son of Paleface (1952)

Photographer (Uncredited)

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Narrator (Voice) (Uncredited)

The Fallbrook Story (1952)

Self, Introduction

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Cecil B. Demille

Samson and Delilah (1949)

Narrator (Uncredited)

Unconquered (1947)

Self - Narrator (Voice) (Uncredited)

Variety Girl (1947)

Cecil B. Demille

Jens Mons in America (1947)

Self (Uncredited)

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

Self

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)

Voice Of Narrator (Uncredited)

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Prologue Speaker (Voice) (Uncredited)

Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)

Cecil B. Demille

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

Self

North West Mounted Police (1940)

Narrator (Voice) (Uncredited)

The Movies March On (1939)

Self (Archive Footage)

Hollywood Extra Girl (1935)

Cecil B. Demille

The Hollywood You Never See (1934)

Self

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933)

Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)

Madam Satan (1930)

Radio Newscaster (Voice) (Uncredited)

Estrellados (1930)

Self (Guest Appearance)

Free and Easy (1930)

Director Cecil B. Demille (Uncredited)

The Circus: Premiere (1928)

Self

Life in Hollywood No. 1 (1927)

Self

Hollywood (1923)

Cecil B. Demille

A Trip to Paramountown (1922)

Self

The Squaw Man (1914)

Faro Dealer

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