(1881–1959), US movie producer and director, noted for his spectacular epics; full name Cecil Blount DeMille. He founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company (later Paramount) with Samuel Goldwyn in 1913 and chose the then little-known Los Angeles suburb of Hollywood as a location for their first movie, The Squaw Man (1914). Other notable movies: The Ten Commandments (1923; remade 1956) and Samson and Delilah (1949).