Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille was born in Massachusetts in 1881, the son of a playwright who was a lay reader of the Episcopal Church, whom he lost at the age of eleven. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, acted on the stage, then from the end of 1913 shot the first feature film made in Hollywood. He directed seventy films over more than forty years and hosted a radio programme for nearly nine years. He died in Hollywood in 1959.

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• CinemaThe Ten CommandmentsCecil B. DeMille · 1956Cinema