Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille, plus couramment appelé Cecil B. DeMille, est un réalisateur et producteur américain, né le 12 août 1881 à Ashfield dans le Massachusetts et mort le 21 janvier 1959 à Los Angeles en Californie.
D'abord acteur dans les années 1900, il fonde avec Jesse L. Lasky et Samuel Goldwyn une société de production cinématographique, l'ancêtre de la Paramount, et réalise en 1914 le premier long-métrage tourné à Hollywood, *Le Mari de l'Indienne*. Grâce à ses nombreuses comédies vaudevillesques avec la star d'alors Gloria Swanson, il devint l'un des réalisateurs les plus importants du cinéma muet dans les années 1920. Il se spécialise ensuite dans les films d'aventures et historiques, tels que *Le Signe de la Croix*, *Les Croisades*, *Les Tuniques écarlates*, son premier film en Technicolor, *Les Naufrageurs des mers du sud*, *Les Conquérants d'un nouveau monde*, *Sous le plus grand chapiteau du monde* ou *Les Dix Commandements*.
Pionnier de son art et producteur indépendant, Cecil B. DeMille est l'un des rares metteurs en scène à bénéficier d'une totale liberté artistique tout au long de sa carrière et l'un des premiers à envisager le cinéma comme un divertissement pour le grand public. Grand directeur de foules, il sait imposer un style propre et reconnaissable. Républicain, fervent garant des valeurs morales de l'Amérique puritaine, il transgresse pourtant les règles de moralité imposées au cinéma par le code Hays dans plusieurs de ses films, contenant des scènes de sensualité exacerbée comme *Le Signe de la croix* ou de métaphores à caractère érotique telles qu'on peut les voir dans *Cléopâtre*.
Si son nom reste aujourd'hui associé excessivement à l'idée de démesure et de gigantisme au cinéma, apparaissant comme le représentant archétypal du film biblique, alors qu'il n'en tourne pourtant que quatre dans sa carrière, Cecil B. DeMille n'en est pas moins l'un des réalisateurs les plus importants de l'âge d'or du cinéma américain. À l'instar de David W. Griffith ou Charles Chaplin, sa carrière a été décisive et son influence importante sur ses contemporains et les générations de cinéastes suivantes.
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Films (135)
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
2021 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
2020 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle II
2020 · Self
Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Hail Satan ?
2019 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
2016 · Self
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007 · Self (archive footage)
The Making of The Ten Commandments
2003 · Self
The Casting Couch
1995
All-Time Movie Greats
1988 · Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Showbiz Ballyhoo
1982 · Self (archive footage)
Hooray for Hollywood
1976 · Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Self (archive footage)
The Buccaneer
1958 · Presenter of Prologue, Producer, Executive Producer
The Buster Keaton Story
1957 · Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)
The Ten Commandments
1956 · Narrator (uncredited), Director, Producer
The War of the Worlds
1953 · Executive Producer
Son of Paleface
1952 · Photographer (uncredited)
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer
The Fallbrook Story
1952 · Self, Introduction
Sunset Boulevard
1950 · Cecil B. DeMille
Samson and Delilah
1949 · Narrator (uncredited), Director, Producer
Unconquered
1947 · Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer
Variety Girl
1947 · Cecil B. DeMille
Jens Mons in America
1947 · Self (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
1945 · Self
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944 · Voice of Narrator (uncredited), Director, Producer
Reap the Wild Wind
1942 · Prologue Speaker (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942 · Cecil B. DeMille
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942 · Self
North West Mounted Police
1940 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer
The Movies March On
1939 · Self (archive footage)
Land of Liberty
1939 · Editor
Union Pacific
1939 · Director, Producer
The Buccaneer
1938 · Director, Producer
The Plainsman
1936 · Director, Producer
Hollywood Extra Girl
1935 · Cecil B. DeMille
The Crusades
1935 · Director
Cleopatra
1934 · Producer, Director
Four Frightened People
1934 · Director, Producer
The Hollywood You Never See
1934 · Self
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
1933 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
This Day and Age
1933 · Director, Producer
The Sign of the Cross
1932 · Director, Producer
The Squaw Man
1931 · Director
Madam Satan
1930 · Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer
Estrellados
1930 · Self (Guest Appearance)
Free and Easy
1930 · Director Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)
Dynamite
1929 · Director
The Godless Girl
1928 · Director, Producer
Let 'Er Go Gallegher
1928 · Executive Producer
The Circus: Premiere
1928 · Self
The Angel of Broadway
1927 · Producer
The Fighting Eagle
1927 · Producer
Life in Hollywood No. 1
1927 · Self
Vanity
1927 · Producer
The King of Kings
1927 · Director, Producer
White Gold
1927 · Producer
Life in Hollywood
1927 · Self
The Cruise of the Jasper B
1926 · Producer
The Volga Boatman
1926 · Director, Producer
Silence
1926 · Producer
Whispering Smith
1926 · Producer
Red Dice
1926 · Presenter
The Wedding Song
1925 · Producer
The Road to Yesterday
1925 · Director
The Dressmaker from Paris
1925 · Supervising Producer
The Golden Bed
1925 · Director
Feet of Clay
1924 · Director, Producer
Triumph
1924 · Producer, Director
The Ten Commandments
1923 · Producer, Director
Adam's Rib
1923 · Director, Producer
Hollywood
1923 · Cecil B. DeMille
Manslaughter
1922 · Director
A Trip to Paramountown
1922 · Self
Saturday Night
1922 · Director, Producer
Fool's Paradise
1921 · Director
The Affairs of Anatol
1921 · Director
Forbidden Fruit
1921 · Director, Story, Producer
The Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel
1921 · As himself, Director
Something to Think About
1920 · Director, Producer
Why Change Your Wife?
1920 · Director, Producer
Male and Female
1919 · Director, Producer
For Better, for Worse
1919 · Director
Don't Change Your Husband
1919 · Director
The Squaw Man
1918 · Director
Till I Come Back to You
1918 · Director
We Can't Have Everything
1918 · Director, Editor
Old Wives for New
1918 · Director, Producer, Editor
The Whispering Chorus
1918 · Director
The Devil Stone
1917 · Director
Nan of Music Mountain
1917 · Director
The Woman God Forgot
1917 · Director, Producer, Editor
The Little American
1917 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
A Romance of the Redwoods
1917 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Lost and Won
1917 · Producer
Betty to the Rescue
1917 · General Manager
Joan the Woman
1916 · Director, Producer, Editor
The Dream Girl
1916 · Director
Maria Rosa
1916 · Director
The Heart of Nora Flynn
1916 · Director
The Love Mask
1916 · Writer
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1916 · Director, Story, Producer
The Golden Chance
1915 · Director, Story, Producer, Editor
Temptation
1915 · Editor, Director
The Cheat
1915 · Editor, Director, Producer
Chimmie Fadden Out West
1915 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Carmen
1915 · Director, Producer, Editor
Kindling
1915 · Director, Writer, Producer
Chimmie Fadden
1915 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
The Arab
1915 · Producer, Director, Writer
The Wild Goose Chase
1915 · Director
The Captive
1915 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
The Unafraid
1915 · Director, Story
The Warrens of Virginia
1915 · Director, Producer
After Five
1915 · Director
The Girl of the Golden West
1915 · Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
The Ghost Breaker
1914 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Circus Man
1914 · Writer
The Rose of the Rancho
1914 · Editor, Director, Writer
The Man From Home
1914 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Ready Money
1914 · Writer
What's His Name
1914 · Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
The Virginian
1914 · Director, Editor
The Call of the North
1914 · Director
The Man on the Box
1914 · Director
The Only Son
1914 · Director
Lord Chumley
1914 · Theatre Play
The Master Mind
1914 · Director
Brewster's Millions
1914 · Director, Producer
The Squaw Man
1914 · Faro Dealer, Producer, Director, Writer
