FILM DIRECTOR

Cecil B. DeMille

1881 - 1959

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Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cecil B. DeMille is the 25th most popular film director (up from 283rd in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,824th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Cecil B. DeMille ranks 25 out of 2,041. Before him are Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, and François Truffaut. After him are Miloš Forman, George Lucas, Jean-Luc Godard, Konstantin Stanislavski, Georges Méliès, and Michelangelo Antonioni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Cecil B. DeMille ranks 10. Before him are Alexander Fleming, Stefan Zweig, Béla Bartók, Alexander Kerensky, Roger Martin du Gard, and Lu Xun. After him are Anna Pavlova, Enver Pasha, William Boeing, Kliment Voroshilov, Walther von Brauchitsch, and Hans Kelsen. Among people deceased in 1959, Cecil B. DeMille ranks 7. Before him are George Marshall, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson, Stepan Bandera, Adolf Windaus, and Frank Lloyd Wright. After him are Ante Pavelić, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Gérard Philipe, Bohuslav Martinů, Billie Holiday, and Raymond Chandler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cecil B. DeMille ranks 223 out of 20,380. Before him are W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), George Beadle (1903), Buster Keaton (1895), Tom Cruise (1962), Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867). After him are Grover Cleveland (1837), Milton Friedman (1912), Ray Bradbury (1920), Humphrey Bogart (1899), George Lucas (1944), and F. Sherwood Rowland (1927).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Cecil B. DeMille ranks 8. Before him are Martin Scorsese (1942), David Lynch (1946), Stanley Kubrick (1928), D. W. Griffith (1875), Woody Allen (1935), and Francis Ford Coppola (1939). After him are George Lucas (1944), Michael Mann (1943), Quentin Tarantino (1963), John Ford (1894), Tim Burton (1958), and Robert Zemeckis (1952).

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