Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille is a director, born 1881.
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…
Movies (23)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Samson and Delilah (1949)
- Samson and Delilah (1949)
- Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age (2021)
- Unconquered (1947)
- Unconquered (1947)
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
- The Sign of the Cross (1932)
- North West Mounted Police (1940)
- The Buccaneer (1958)
- Cleopatra (1934)
- Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
- Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
- Hail Satan? (2019)
- The King of Kings (1927)
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
- The Ten Commandments (1923)
- Union Pacific (1939)
- The Plainsman (1936)
- The Buccaneer (1938)
- The Crusades (1935)