Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.
Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films.
He is acknowledged as a founding father of the 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 were more diverse in genre, among which included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
De Mille began his career as a stage actor in 1900.
He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer.
DeMille's first film," The Squaw Man"( 1914), was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood.
Its interracial love story made it commercially successful and it first publicized Hollywood as the home of the U.S. film industry.
The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor.
His first biblical epic," The Ten Commandments"( 1923), was both a critical and commercial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty- five years.
De Mille directed" The King of Kings"( 1927), a biography of Jesus, which gained approval for its sensitivity and reached more than 800 million viewers.
" The Sign of the Cross"( 1932) is said to be the first sound film to integrate all aspects of cinematic technique.
" Cleopatra"( 1934) was his first film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
After more than thirty years in film production, DeMille reached a pinnacle in his career with" Samson and Delilah"( 1949), a biblical epic which became the highest- grossing film of 1950.
Along with biblical and historical narratives, he also directed films oriented toward" neo-naturalism", which tried to portray the laws of man fighting the forces of nature.
He received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama" The Greatest Show on Earth"( 1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
His last and best known film," The Ten Commandments"( 1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the eighth- highest- grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation.
In addition to his Best Picture Awards, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d' Or( posthumously) for" Union Pacific"( 1939), a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
He was the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was named in his honor.
DeMille's reputation as a filmmaker has grown over time and his work has influenced many other films and directors.
Drew Esocoff
Drew Esocoff( born c. 1957) is an American television sports director, who as of 2006 has been the director of NBC Sunday Night Football.
Mathar Kula Manickam
Mathar Kula Manickam is a 1956 Tamil- language drama film, produced by A. Sankar Reddy under the Lalitha Films banner and directed by Tatineni Prakash Rao.
The film stars Gemini Ganesan, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Anjali Devi and Savitri in the lead roles, with music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao.
It is based on Rabindranath Tagore's novel" Noukadubi".
The screenplay and dialogue were written by V. Sadha Sivabrahmmam and C. V. Sridhar, respectively.
The film was simultaneously made in Telugu under the title" Charana Daasi", both versions were critical and commercial successes.
Elliot Silverstein
Elliot Silverstein( born August 3, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American director, who is best known for being the director of the movie" Cat Ballou"( 1965).
Madam Satan
Madam Satan or Madame Satan is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth and Roland Young" Madam Satan" has been called one of the oddest films DeMille made and certainly one of the oddest MGM made during its" golden age".
Thematically, this marked an attempt by DeMille to return to the boudoir comedies genre that had brought him financial success about 10 years earlier.
Abhishek Saxena
Abhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu.
The Phullu movie was released in theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role.
Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film.
This film was screened in cinemas in 2014.
G. Marthandan
G. Marthandan is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema.
T. Prakash Rao
Tatineni Prakash Rao( 24 November 1924 – 1 July 1992) was an Indian filmmaker.
He made a number films in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages.
His first film was Palletooru( 1952).
He was assistant director in Shavukar and later directed Pitchi Pullaiah, Jayam Manade starring N. T. Rama Rao.
He worked with both N.T. Rama Rao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao in films Charana Dasi and Parivartana( 1954).
His Hindi films like Suraj and Izzat remain popular.
His Tamil film with M. G. Ramachandran was Padagotti which is considered as classic.
He directed Gemini Ganesan in Nalla Theerpu, Ellorum Innattu Mannar and Kathirundha Kangal.
He was born in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
He was first attracted towards Communist movement and was part of Praja Natya Mandali.
Later he moved to Madras to join film industry like many others who did not the like the turn of events in the communist movement.
He started his career as an assistant to L. V. Prasad, another famous film maker.
He also worked with K. V. Reddy for some time.
His son TLV Prasad entered into Limca Book of World Records for his ability in churning out movies continuously.
His grandson Tatineni Satya also entered into film industry with the film Bheemili Kabaddi Jattu.
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
Charana Daasi
Charana Daasi (English: Wife) is a 1956 Telugu drama film, produced by A. Sankar Reddy under the Lalitha Films banner and directed by T. Prakash Rao.
It stars N. T. Rama Rao, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Anjali Devi, Savitri in the lead roles and music composed by S. Rajeswara Rao.
The film is based on Rabindranath Tagore's Bengali novel "Noukadubi".
The film was simultaneously made in Tamil as "Mathar Kula Manickam" (1956), later in Hindi as "Ghunghat" (1960) and again in Hindi as "Paraya Ghar" (1989).

Question: Which film has the director who died first, Madam Satan or Mathar Kula Manickam?
Answer: Madam Satan