De Mille, Richard, 1922-

De Mille was a faculty member in the Psychology Dept. of UCSB in the early 1960s. His writings focus primarily on criticism of Carlos Castaneda's work.

From the description of The Richard De Mille Collection, 1959-1979. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 51885094

Biography

Richard de Mille was born on Feb. 12, 1922 in Los Angeles, California. His father was film producer Cecil B. de Mille and his mother was Constance A. Adams de Mille. From 1943 to 1946 he worked with an Air Force motion picture film unit in Culver City, which produced 'Thunderbolt,' a World War II film of air action over Italy. From 1946 to 1950 he was a writer and director at Paramount Television, in Hollywood. The following few years he primarily wrote science fiction.

De Mille received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine College in 1955 and his PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California in 1961, with work in clinical psychology and psychometrics. He joined the faculty in Psychology at UCSB in 1962, and resumed his writing career in 1970. He continues to live in Montecito, California.

More detailed biographical notes, and a sketch, can be found in de Mille's The Don Juan Papers .

Publications by de Mille include: Intellect after Lobotomy in Schizophrenia, a Factor-analytic Study (1962), Put Your Mother on the Ceiling: Children's Imagination Games (1967), Two Qualms & a Quirk: Three Stories (Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973), Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory (Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976), The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies (edited by de Mille; Santa Barbara: Ross-Erikson, 1980), and My Secret Mother, Lorna Moon .

From the guide to the Richard De Mille Collection, 1959-1979, (University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections)