Cecil B. DeMille - biography

“Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.”

“It is impossible for us to break the law.  We can only break ourselves against the law.”

“Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai...  but he has never improved on God’s law.”

“There can be no liberty without the law.”

“Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts.  The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.  That is dedication.”

“The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.  That is dedication.”

“What I have crossed out I didn’t like.  What I haven’t crossed out I’m dissatisfied with.”

Cecil B. DeMille directed the following films:
The Squaw Man (1914)
Brewster’s Millions (1914)
The Master Mind (1914)
The Only Son (1914)
The Man on the Box (1914)
The Call of the North (1914)
The Virginian (1914)
What’s His Name (1914)
The Man from Home (1914)
Rose of the Rancho (1914)
The Ghost Breaker (1914)
The Girl of the Golden West (1915)
After Five (1915)
The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
The Unafraid (1915)
The Captive (1915)
The Wild Goose Chase (1915)
The Arab (1915)
Chimmie Fadden (1915)
Kindling (1915)
Carmen (1915)
Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915)
The Cheat (1915)
Temptation (1915)
The Golden Chance (1915)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916)
The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916)
Maria Rosa (1916)
The Dream Girl (1916)
Joan the Woman (1917)
Lost and Won (1917)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
The Little American (1917)
The Woman God Forgot (1917)
Nan of Music Mountain (1917)
The Devil-Stone (1917)
The Whispering Chorus (1918)
Old Wives for New (1918)
We Can’t Have Everything (1918)
Till I Come Back to You (1918)
The Squaw Man (1918)
Don’t Change Your Husband (1919)
For Better, for Worse (1919)
Male and Female (1919)
Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
Something to Think About (1920)
Forbidden Fruit (1921)
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Fool’s Paradise (1921)
Saturday Night (1922)
Manslaughter (1922)
Adam’s Rib (1923)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
Triumph (1924)
Feet of Clay (1924)
The Golden Bed (1925)
The Road to Yesterday (1925)
The Volga Boatman (1926)
The King of Kings (1927)
Walking Back (1928)
The Godless Girl (1929)
Dynamite (1929)
Madam Satan (1930)
The Squaw Man (1931)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
This Day and Age (1933)
Four Frightened People (1934)
Cleopatra (1934)
The Crusades (1935)
The Plainsman (1936)
The Buccaneer (1938)
Union Pacific (1939)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Unconquered (1947)
California’s Golden Beginning (1948)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
The Ten Commandments (1956)


Cecil B. DeMille has appeared in the following films:
Estrellados (1930)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)


Cecil B. DeMille contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Lord Chumley (1914)