2005 Topps Power Brokers CECIL B. DeMILLE AUTO 1/1 Cut Signature Autograph SP

  

Arguably the most impactful and powerful player in cinematic history. The Man who created Hollywood. Known as the father of the Hollywood motion picture industry, Cecil B.

DeMille made 70 films including several box-office hits. Adjusted for inflation, DeMille's remake of The Ten Commandments is the eighth highest-grossing film in the world. 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. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.

He was an active Freemason and member of Prince of Orange Lodge #16 in New York City.