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 was an American film director, producer, and actor who lived from 1881 to 1959 and played a major role in shaping Hollywood's early cinema. He is remembered as one of the most influential filmmakers of his era, known for producing large-scale, ambitious films that helped establish many of the techniques and business practices still used in the movie industry today.

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Born: 1881
Died: 1959
Works: 11

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

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Ashfield
Place of death: Hollywood
Father: Henry C. De Mille
Mother: Beatrice DeMille
Sibling: William Churchill deMille
Occupation: writer
Political party: Republican Party (United States)
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Award: Academy Honorary Award
Official website: www.cecilbdemille.com
Image: Young Cecil B. DeMille.jpg

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Commons category: Cecil B. DeMille
date of birth: 1881-08-12
date of death: 1959-01-21
Commons gallery: Cecil B. DeMille
pseudonym: ''C.B.''
place of burial: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture
cause of death: heart failure
unmarried partner: Julia Faye
Commons Creator page: Cecil B. DeMille
related category: Category:Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille
end of work period: 1958-00-00
start of work period: 1899-00-00
name in native language: Cecil Blount DeMille
writing language: English language
manner of death: natural causes

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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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