Actor
Cecil B. DeMille
Biography

Cecil Blount DeMille was 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. I ...

Known For
Acting
2021 -- Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2020 -- Yul Brynner, the Magnificent | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2020 -- Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II | Self
2020 -- Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle | Self (archive footage)
2019 -- Hail Satan? | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2019 -- Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2016 -- The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille | Self
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2007 -- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self (archive footage)
1984 -- Going Hollywood: The '30s | Self (archive footage)
1983 -- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1975 -- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage)
1957 -- The Buster Keaton Story | Cecil B. DeMille
1956 -- The Ten Commandments | Narrator
1952 -- Son of Paleface | Photographer (uncredited)
1952 -- The Greatest Show on Earth | Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1952 -- The Fallbrook Story | Self, Introduction
1950 -- Sunset Boulevard | Cecil B. DeMille
1949 -- Samson and Delilah | Narrator (uncredited)
1947 -- Unconquered | Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1947 -- Variety Girl | Cecil B. DeMille
1947 -- Jens Mons in America | Self (uncredited)
1945 -- Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary | Self
1944 -- The Story of Dr. Wassell | Voice of Narrator (uncredited)
1942 -- Reap the Wild Wind | Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
1942 -- Star Spangled Rhythm | Cecil B. DeMille
1942 -- Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self
1940 -- North West Mounted Police | Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1939 -- The Movies March On | Self (archive footage)
1935 -- Hollywood Extra Girl | Cecil B. DeMille
1934 -- The Hollywood You Never See | Self
1933 -- Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1930 -- Madam Satan | Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
1930 -- Estrellados | Self (Guest Appearance)
1930 -- Free and Easy | Director Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)
1928 -- The Circus: Premiere | Self
1927 -- Life in Hollywood No. 1 | Self
1923 -- Hollywood | Cecil B. DeMille
1922 -- A Trip to Paramountown | Self
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