Cecil B. DeMille
American film director, producer and actor (1881–1959)
3.68body-of-work score · ranked #303 of 2631 directors · 7 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- August 12, 1881 · Ashfield
- Died
- January 21, 1959 · Hollywood
- Nationality
- United States
- Work
- film producer, film director, film editor, screenwriter
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1952 · United States · drama
Oscar Best Picture winner 1952 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies
1.672 citations - 2
1956 · United States · drama, adventure
Oscar Best Picture nominee 1956 · National Film Registry (inducted 1999) · NYT Best 1,000 Movies
0.843 citations - 3
1934 · United States · biography, drama
Oscar Best Picture nominee 1934 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.562 citations - 40.231 citation
- 50.161 citation
- 60.111 citation
- 70.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 82 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1914Brewster's Millions
- 1914Rose of the Rancho
- 1914The Call of the North
- 1914The Ghost Breaker
- 1914The Man from Home
- 1914The Man on the Box
- 1914The Master Mind
- 1914The Only Son
- 1914The Squaw Man
- 1914The Virginian
- 1914What's His Name
- 1915After Five
- 1915Carmen
- 1915Chimmie Fadden
- 1915Chimmie Fadden Out West
- 1915Kindling
- 1915Temptation
- 1915The Arab
- 1915The Captive
- 1915The Cheat
- 1915The Girl of the Golden West
- 1915The Golden Chance
- 1915The Unafraid
- 1915The Warrens of Virginia
- 1915The Wild Goose Chase
- 1916Joan the Woman
- 1916Maria Rosa
- 1916The Dream Girl
- 1916The Heart of Nora Flynn
- 1916The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
- 1917A Romance of the Redwoods
- 1917Lost and Won
- 1917Nan of Music Mountain
- 1917The Devil-Stone
- 1917The Little American
- 1917The Woman God Forgot
- 1918Old Wives for New
- 1918The Squaw Man
- 1918The Whispering Chorus
- 1918Till I Come Back to You
- 1918We Can't Have Everything
- 1919Don't Change Your Husband
- 1919For Better, for Worse
- 1919Male and Female
- 1920Something to Think About
- 1920Why Change Your Wife?
- 1921Fool's Paradise
- 1921Forbidden Fruit
- 1921The Affairs of Anatol
- 1922Manslaughter
- 1922Saturday Night
- 1923Adam's Rib
- 1923The Ten Commandments
- 1924Feet of Clay
- 1924Triumph
- 1925The Golden Bed
- 1925The Road to Yesterday
- 1926The Volga Boatman
- 1927The King of Kings
- 1928The Godless Girl
- 1928Walking Back
- 1929Dynamite
- 1930Madam Satan
- 1931The Squaw Man
- 1932The Sign of the Cross
- 1933This Day and Age
- 1934Cleopatra
- 1934Four Frightened People
- 1935The Crusades
- 1936The Plainsman
- 1938The Buccaneer
- 1939Land of Liberty
- 1939Union Pacific
- 1940North West Mounted Police
- 1942Reap the Wild Wind
- 1944The Story of Dr. Wassell
- 1947Unconquered
- 1948California's Golden Beginning
- 1950Samson and Delilah
- 1952The Greatest Show on Earth
- 1956The Ten Commandments
- 1959Yankee Clipper. -