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Religion: Episcopalian polygamist 
Name: Cecil B. DeMille
Classification:
real/historical person
Publisher(s): 
Earliest Appearance Listed in This Database: Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 1-F (1921)
Number of Appearances: 53
Comic Book Appearances: 1
TV, Film Appearances: 2
TV, Film Appearances As Himself: 50
Occupation: film director
Birth Place: Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA
Gender: male
Retired oil millionaire Cornelius Van-Van paid filmmaker B.C. De Nil $50,000 to make new "old-style" comedy films. Mr. Van-Van did not realize that "De Nil" was actually the Joker in disguise. The Joker's pseudonym and filmmaker disguise in this story is based on the name and face of real-life filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, but DeMille is not actually mentioned by name in this story.
Detective Comics (vol. 1) #341 (July 1965): "The Joker's Comedy Capers" (character based on)Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 1-F (1921)
Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille
- http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0040202/
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001124/
- http://www.adherents.com/people/pd/Cecil_B_DeMille.html
- https://www.comics.org/issue/19314/
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=92108