Biography
Cecil Blount DeMille, often known in popular culture as Mr. DeMille, was an American filmmaker and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he created 70 features including silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history, with many films dominating the box office three or four at a time. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
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Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Picture · 1953
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award · 1952
- Academy Honorary Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Picture · 1957 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Director · 1953 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Picture · nominated
Filmography37 titles
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Sunset Boulevard
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II
The Ten Commandments
Hail Satan?
What's My Line?
The Godless Girl
The War of the Worlds
The Ed Sullivan Show
Samson and Delilah
The Ten Commandments
The Golden Chance
The Buccaneer
Unconquered
The Plainsman
The Greatest Show on Earth
Reap the Wild Wind
The Buccaneer
The Crusades
The Sign of the Cross
Dynamite
The King of Kings
A Romance of the Redwoods
The Little American
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
Free and Easy
Cleopatra
Carmen
The Cheat
The Squaw Man
Madam Satan
The Affairs of Anatol
Why Change Your Wife?
Joan the Woman
The Virginian
The Fighting Eagle