Cecil B. DeMille

Biography

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. Among his best-known films are The Ten Commandments (1956), Cleopatra (1934), and The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Birth Name

Cecil Blount DeMille

Birth Place

Ashfield, Massachusetts, États-Unis

Birth Date

8/12/1881

Death Date

1/21/1959
Known For
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Hooray for Hollywood

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Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner

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50 Years: The Best Of Hollywood

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Charlton Heston: Von Moses zum Waffennarr

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Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

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Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

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Free and Easy

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Hollywood Out-Takes and rare Footage

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Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

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Starring In
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Charlton Heston: Von Moses zum Waffennarr

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Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner

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And the Oscar Goes To...

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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

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Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

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Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

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Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

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50 Years: The Best Of Hollywood

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Hollywood Out-Takes and rare Footage

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Hooray for Hollywood

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

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Buccaneer, The

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The Ten Commandments

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Sunset Boulevard

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Son of Paleface

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Unconquered

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Por el Valle de las Sombras

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Reap the Wild Wind

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Policía Montada del Canadá

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Free and Easy

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The Squaw Man

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