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Director
Cecil B. DeMille
Defining Films
Profile
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 specta
Critical Essay (Excerpt)
b. Cecil Blount deMille, 12 th August 1881, Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA d. 21 st January 1959, Hollywood, California, USA
Filmography (77)
The Ten Commandments
The Greatest Show on Earth
Samson and Delilah
Unconquered
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Reap the Wild Wind
North West Mounted Police
Union Pacific
The Buccaneer
The Plainsman
The Crusades
Four Frightened People
Cleopatra
This Day and Age
The Sign of the Cross
The Squaw Man
Madam Satan
Dynamite
The Godless Girl
The King of Kings
The Volga Boatman
The Road to Yesterday
The Golden Bed
Triumph
Feet of Clay
The Ten Commandments
Adam's Rib
Manslaughter
Saturday Night
Fool's Paradise
The Affairs of Anatol
Forbidden Fruit
Why Change Your Wife?
Something to Think About
For Better, for Worse
Don't Change Your Husband
Male and Female
The Whispering Chorus
We Can't Have Everything
Till I Come Back to You
Old Wives for New
The Squaw Man
Nan of Music Mountain
A Romance of the Redwoods
The Devil Stone
The Little American
The Woman God Forgot
The Dream Girl
Maria Rosa
Joan the Woman
The Heart of Nora Flynn
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
After Five
The Captive
The Girl of the Golden West
The Arab
The Golden Chance
Temptation
Kindling
The Unafraid
Chimmie Fadden Out West
The Warrens of Virginia
The Wild Goose Chase
Chimmie Fadden
Carmen
The Cheat
The Master Mind
The Call of the North
The Man on the Box
The Ghost Breaker
The Squaw Man
The Rose of the Rancho
The Only Son
The Man From Home
The Virginian
What's His Name
Brewster's Millions