Cecil B. DeMille

from Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA

Artwork for The Ten CommandmentsImage of Cecil B. DeMille

Biography

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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Timeline

2021Aged 140

  • Poster for Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2020Aged 139

  • Poster for Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II

    Self

  • Poster for Yul Brynner, the Magnificent

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2019Aged 138

  • Poster for Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  • Poster for Hail Satan?

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2016Aged 135

  • Poster for The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

    Self

2012Aged 131

  • Poster for Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

    Self (archive footage)

2007Aged 126

  • Poster for Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Self (archive footage)

2003Aged 122

  • Poster for The Making of The Ten Commandments

    Self

1995Aged 114

  • Poster for The Casting Couch

    (Unknown)

1984Aged 103

  • Poster for Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Self (archive footage)

1983Aged 102

  • Poster for Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1982Aged 101

  • Poster for Showbiz Ballyhoo

    Self (archive footage)

1976Aged 95

  • Poster for Hooray for Hollywood

    Self (archive footage)

1975Aged 94

  • Poster for Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    Self (archive footage)

1958Aged 77

  • Poster for The Buccaneer

    Presenter of Prologue

1957Aged 76

  • Poster for The Buster Keaton Story

    Cecil B. DeMille

1956Aged 75

  • Poster for The Ten Commandments

    Narrator (uncredited)

1953Aged 72

  • Poster for The War of the Worlds

    Executive Producer

1952Aged 71

  • Poster for The Fallbrook Story

    Self, Introduction

  • Poster for The Greatest Show on Earth

    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Son of Paleface

    Photographer (uncredited)

1950Aged 69

  • Poster for Sunset Boulevard

    Cecil B. DeMille

1949Aged 68

  • Poster for Samson and Delilah

    Narrator (uncredited)

1947Aged 66

  • Poster for Jens Mons in America

    Self (uncredited)

  • Poster for Variety Girl

    Cecil B. DeMille

  • Poster for Unconquered

    Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1945Aged 64

  • Poster for Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary

    Self

1944Aged 63

  • Poster for The Story of Dr. Wassell

    Voice of Narrator (uncredited)

1942Aged 61

  • Poster for Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

    Self

  • Poster for Star Spangled Rhythm

    Cecil B. DeMille

  • Poster for Reap the Wild Wind

    Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited)

1940Aged 59

  • Poster for North West Mounted Police

    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1939Aged 58

  • Poster for The Movies March On

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Union Pacific

    Producer

  • Poster for Land of Liberty

    Editor

1938Aged 57

  • Poster for The Buccaneer

    Producer

1936Aged 55

  • Poster for The Plainsman

    Producer

1935Aged 54

  • Poster for Hollywood Extra Girl

    Cecil B. DeMille

  • Poster for The Crusades

    Director

1934Aged 53

1933Aged 52

  • Poster for Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for This Day and Age

    Producer

1932Aged 51

  • Poster for The Sign of the Cross

    Producer

1931Aged 50

  • Poster for The Squaw Man

    Director

1930Aged 49

  • Poster for Free and Easy

    Director Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)

  • Poster for Estrellados

    Self (Guest Appearance)

  • Poster for Madam Satan

    Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)

1929Aged 48

  • Poster for Dynamite

    Director

1928Aged 47

  • Poster for The Circus: Premiere

    Self

  • Poster for Let 'Er Go Gallegher

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Godless Girl

    Producer

1927Aged 46

  • Poster for Life in Hollywood No. 1

    Self

  • Poster for White Gold

    Producer

  • Poster for The King of Kings

    Producer

  • Poster for Vanity

    Producer

  • Poster for The Fighting Eagle

    Producer

  • Poster for The Angel of Broadway

    Producer

1926Aged 45

  • Poster for Red Dice

    Presenter

  • Poster for Whispering Smith

    Producer

  • Poster for Silence

    Producer

  • Poster for The Volga Boatman

    Producer

  • Poster for The Cruise of the Jasper B

    Producer

1925Aged 44

  • Poster for The Golden Bed

    Director

  • Poster for The Dressmaker from Paris

    Supervising Producer

  • Poster for The Road to Yesterday

    Director

  • Poster for The Wedding Song

    Producer

1924Aged 43

  • Poster for Triumph

    Producer

  • Poster for Feet of Clay

    Producer

1923Aged 42

  • Poster for Hollywood

    Cecil B. DeMille

  • Poster for Adam's Rib

    Producer

  • Poster for The Ten Commandments

    Director

1922Aged 41

  • Poster for A Trip to Paramountown

    Self

  • Poster for Saturday Night

    Producer

  • Poster for Manslaughter

    Director

1921Aged 40

1920Aged 39

  • Poster for Why Change Your Wife?

    Producer

  • Poster for Something to Think About

    Producer

1919Aged 38

  • Poster for Don't Change Your Husband

    Director

  • Poster for For Better, for Worse

    Director

  • Poster for Male and Female

    Producer

1918Aged 37

  • Poster for The Whispering Chorus

    Director

  • Poster for Old Wives for New

    Editor

  • Poster for We Can't Have Everything

    Editor

  • Poster for Till I Come Back to You

    Director

  • Poster for The Squaw Man

    Director

1917Aged 36

  • Poster for Betty to the Rescue

    General Manager

  • Poster for Lost and Won

    Producer

  • Poster for A Romance of the Redwoods

    Editor

  • Poster for The Little American

    Editor

  • Poster for The Woman God Forgot

    Editor

  • Poster for Nan of Music Mountain

    Director

  • Poster for The Devil Stone

    Director

1916Aged 35

  • Poster for The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

    Producer

  • Poster for The Love Mask

    Writer

  • Poster for The Heart of Nora Flynn

    Director

  • Poster for Maria Rosa

    Director

  • Poster for The Dream Girl

    Director

  • Poster for Joan the Woman

    Editor

1915Aged 34

  • Poster for The Girl of the Golden West

    Writer

  • Poster for After Five

    Director

  • Poster for The Warrens of Virginia

    Producer

  • Poster for The Unafraid

    Story

  • Poster for The Captive

    Editor

  • Poster for The Wild Goose Chase

    Director

  • Poster for The Arab

    Writer

  • Poster for Chimmie Fadden

    Editor

  • Kindling

    Producer

  • Poster for Carmen

    Editor

  • Poster for Chimmie Fadden Out West

    Editor

  • Poster for The Cheat

    Producer

  • Poster for Temptation

    Editor

  • Poster for The Golden Chance

    Editor

1914Aged 33