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Cecil Blount de Mille
Cecil Blount DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
Directing
Biography
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 spectacle, sex, and spellbinding narrative to convey a message of faith.
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Known For
Filmography
Movies
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II
as Self
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
as Self (archive footage)
Hail Satan?
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
as Self
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
as Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
The Making of The Ten Commandments
as Self
