Trivia

A regular face in the films of director Cecil B. DeMille, Wilcoxon was good friends with DeMille in real life. The friendship between them was described as a surrogate father/son relationship in Scott Eyman's DeMille biography, Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille (2010).

Associate producer of DeMille's last two films, The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and The Ten Commandments (1956), which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Greatest Show on Earth won.

Appeared in six DeMille films: he starred in Cleopatra (1934), The Crusades (1935), and Samson and Delilah (1949), and played supporting roles in Unconquered (1947), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), and The Ten Commandments (1956).

Wrote his autobiography, "Lionheart in Hollywood", with Katherine Orrison.

Three daughters by wife Joan Woodbury: Wendy Joan (b. December 28, 1939), Heather Ann (b. May 8, 1947), and Cecilia Dawn (b. May 25, 1950).

His name appears in the opening credits of 'Tanner' (viewed by a character played by Al Pacino), the fake Western starring Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood.

In 1934, he was chosen by Cecil B. DeMille to play Samson opposite Miriam Hopkins as Delilah, but the film was postponed for more than a decade. When DeMille finally started production on Samson and Delilah (1949), the role went to Victor Mature and Wilcoxon played Ahtur, Samson's nemesis.

One of Paramount Pictures' Stars of Tomorrow in 1934.

Wilcoxon and Cecil B. DeMille had a falling-out after the release of The Crusades (1935). They did not speak to each other again for almost ten years. They eventually restored their friendship by the time DeMille was directing Unconquered (1947), in which Wilcoxon played Captain Steele.