Cecil B. DeMille (nombre artistico deCecil Blount DeMille), naixiu d'Ashfield (Massachusetts) o12 d'agosto de1881 y muerto enLos Angeles (California) o21 de chinero de1959, estió undirector cinematografico,guionista yproductor cinematograficoestausunidense activo en ocine estausunidense dende primerías d'osanyos 1910 y con cuantos premios recibius mientres a suya carrera cinematografica.
D'entre a suya ampla filmografía, se puet destacar ascintasThe Ten Commandments (1923, conTheodore Roberts,Charles De Roche,Estelle Taylor,Richard Dix,Julia Faye yRod La Rocque),The King of Kings (1927, conH.B. Warner,Dorothy Cumming,Ernest Torrence,Joseph Schildkraut yJames Neill),Cleopatra (1934, conClaudette Colbert,Warren William,Henry Wilcoxon yJoseph Schildkraut),Union Pacific (1939, conBarbara Stanwyck,Joel McCrea yAkim Tamiroff),North West Mounted Police (1940, conGary Cooper,Paulette Goddard,Madeleine Carroll yPreston Foster),Samson and Delilah (1949, conHedy Lamarr,Victor Mature,George Sanders,Angela Lansbury yHenry Wilcoxon),The Greatest Show on Earth (1952, conBetty Hutton,Cornel Wilde,Charlton Heston,James Stewart,Dorothy Lamour yGloria Grahame) uThe Ten Commandments (1956, conCharlton Heston,Yul Brynner,Anne Baxter,Edward G. Robinson,Yvonne De Carlo,Debra Paget yJohn Derek).
