Cecil B. DeMille

1881-1959

Biography: life and films

Cecil B. DeMille was an American film director and producer whose birth name was Cecil Blount DeMille. He was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA on 12th August 1881 and died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA on 21st January 1959, aged 77.

His best films as a film director include Something to Think About (1920), Why Change Your Wife? (1920), The Golden Bed (1925), The King of Kings (1927) and The Godless Girl (1929), and whose best work as a screenwriter include Oscar Apfel's The Squaw Man (1914), The Captive (1915), The Golden Chance (1915) and Frank Reicher's The Love Mask (1916).

Cecil B. DeMille directed 79 films and scripted 21 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Oscar Apfel (9 films) and Frank Reicher (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (58 films), Western (14), romance (11), history (11), comedy (10), War (8), comedy-drama (4) and comedy-romance (2).

Our average rating for Cecil B. DeMille over all films is: 2.8

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer

Brewster's Millions (1914) [d]

Rose of the Rancho (1914) [d,w]

The Call of the North (1914) [d]

The Circus Man (1914) [w]

The Ghost Breaker (1914) [d,w]

The Man from Home (1914) [d,w]

The Man on the Box (1914) [d]

The Master Mind (1914) [d]

The Only Son (1914) [d]

The Squaw Man (1914) [a,d,w]

The Virginian (1914) [d]

What's His Name (1914) [d,w]

After Five (1915) [d,w]

Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915) [d,w]

Chimmie Fadden (1915) [d,w]

Kindling (1915) [d,w]

Temptation (1915) [d]

The Arab (1915) [d,w]

The Captive (1915) [d,w]

The Cheat (1915) [d]

The Girl of the Golden West (1915) [d,w]

The Golden Chance (1915) [d,w]

The Unafraid (1915) [d,w]

The Warrens of Virginia (1915) [d]

The Wild Goose Chase (1915) [d]

Maria Rosa (1916) [d]

The Dream Girl (1916) [d]

The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916) [d]

The Love Mask (1916) [w]

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916) [d,w]

A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) [d,w]

Joan the Woman (1917) [d]

Lost and Won (1917) [d]

The Devil-Stone (1917) [d]

The Little American (1917) [d,w]

The Woman God Forgot (1917) [d]

Old Wives for New (1918) [d]

The Squaw Man (1918) [d]

The Whispering Chorus (1918) [d]

Till I Come Back to You (1918) [d]

We Can't Have Everything (1918) [d]

Don't Change Your Husband (1919) [d]

For Better, for Worse (1919) [d]

Male and Female (1919) [d]

Something to Think About (1920) [d]

Why Change Your Wife? (1920) [d]

Fool's Paradise (1921) [d]

Forbidden Fruit (1921) [d,w]

The Affairs of Anatol (1921) [d]

Manslaughter (1922) [d]

Saturday Night (1922) [d]

Adam's Rib (1923) [d]

The Ten Commandments (1923) [d]

Feet of Clay (1924) [d]

Triumph (1924) [d]

The Golden Bed (1925) [d]

The Night Club (1925) [w]

The Road to Yesterday (1925) [d]

The Volga Boatman (1926) [d]

The King of Kings (1927) [d]

Walking Back (1928) [d]

Dynamite (1929) [d]

The Godless Girl (1929) [d]

Estrellados (1930) [a]

Free and Easy (1930) [a]

Madam Satan (1930) [d]

The Squaw Man (1931) [d]

The Sign of the Cross (1932) [d]

This Day and Age (1933) [d]

Cleopatra (1934) [d]

Four Frightened People (1934) [d]

The Crusades (1935) [d]

The Plainsman (1936) [d]

The Buccaneer (1938) [d]

Union Pacific (1939) [d]

North West Mounted Police (1940) [d]

Reap the Wild Wind (1942) [d]

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) [d]

Unconquered (1947) [d]

Samson and Delilah (1949) [d]

Sunset Boulevard (1950) [a]

Son of Paleface (1952) [a]

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) [d]

The Ten Commandments (1956) [d]

Hooray for Hollywood (1975) [a]



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