Nora Cecil

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Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
September 24, 1878

Place of Birth:
London, England, UK

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Nora Cecil

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Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. Cecil's career began on the stage, where she appeared in a single Broadway production, The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, which ran for more than 240 performances at the Broadway Theatre in 1901-02. (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.")

Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts.

In 1915, she moved from the stage into films, her first appearance being in a starring role in The Arrival of Perpetua, directed by Émile Chautard. She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law" and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts".

One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934. Some of the other notable films in which Cecil appeared include: Ernst Lubitsch's historical romance, The Merry Widow, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald; the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney; the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne.

Her final acting performance was in a featured role in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell.

Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
1964 The Big Parade of Comedy Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1947 Mourning Becomes Electra Louisa Ames
1947 The Sea of Grass Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
1946 Big Town Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
1946 Two Sisters from Boston Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
1946 The Missing Lady Miss Millie
1945 Lady on a Train
1944 The Thin Man Goes Home Miss Peavy
1944 The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
1944 Hail the Conquering Hero Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
1943 The Unknown Guest Martha Williams
1942 I Married a Witch Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
1942 Apache Trail Passenger (uncredited)
1942 The Wife Takes a Flyer Miss Updike
1942 Obliging Young Lady Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
1941 A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob Charwoman
1941 Three Girls About Town Casket Customer
1940 The Bank Dick Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
1940 Lucky Partners Women's Club President (uncredited)
1940 Little Men Head of Orphanage
1940 Young People Righteous Old Lady
1940 Those Were the Days! Mrs. Moffett
1939 What a Life Miss Eggleston
1939 Stagecoach Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
1939 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell Miss Jenkins
1939 Union Pacific Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
1939 Some Like It Hot Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
1938 Mr. Boggs Steps Out Widow Peddie
1938 International Settlement English Woman
1937 Night of Mystery
1937 Three Smart Boys Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
1937 Night Must Fall
1937 Partners in Crime Housekeeper
1937 She Asked for It Elderly lady (uncredited)
1937 Easy Living Miss Swerf
1937 Champagne Waltz Train Passenger
1937 Nothing Sacred Schoolteacher (uncredited)
1937 Borrowing Trouble Dressmaker
1937 The Mighty Treve Old Maid at Dog Show
1937 Blossoms On Broadway Leader of Committee (uncredited)
1936 Under Your Spell School Teacher (uncredited)
1936 College Holiday Miss Elkins (uncredited)
1936 Little Miss Nobody Mrs. Robinson
1936 Fury Albert's Mother (uncredited)
1936 Two in the Dark Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
1936 The Big Broadcast of 1937 Home Economics Woman
1936 Dancing Pirate Landlady (uncredited)
1936 Let's Make a Million
1936 Collegiate Miss Curtiss
1936 Laughing at Trouble Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
1936 Girl of the Ozarks Miss Trent
1935 Car 99 Granny Adams
1935 Slightly Static Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
1935 Way Down East Townswoman at Party
1935 Biography of a Bachelor Girl Ship's Matron (uncredited)
1935 Memories and Melodies Customer (uncredited)
1935 Gold Diggers of 1935 Housekeeper (uncredited)
1935 Vagabond Lady Miss Perkins (uncredited)
1934 Mixed Nuts Mrs. Twitchett
1934 Laughing Boy Schoolteacher
1934 Search for Beauty Miss Pettigrew
1934 One-Horse Farmers Subway Passenger (uncredited)
1934 Opened by Mistake Head Nurse
1934 The Merry Widow Animal Woman (uncredited)
1934 The Old-Fashioned Way Mrs. Wendelschaffer
1934 Upperworld Housekeeper (uncredited)
1934 Chained Edith (uncredited)
1934 You're Telling Me! Mrs. Price
1934 The Spectacle Maker Duchess
1934 Bachelor Bait Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
1934 Once to Every Woman Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
1933 Nature in the Wrong Muriel's mother
1933 Asleep in the Feet Female Police Officer
1933 Peg o' My Heart Smythe (maid)
1933 Going Hollywood Briarcroft's Teacher
1933 Stage Mother Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
1933 King of the Jungle Spinster in park (uncredited)
1933 Fast Workers Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
1933 Design for Living Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
1933 Wreckety Wrecks Miss Winterbottom
1933 Meet the Baron Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
1933 Doctor Bull Aunt Emily Banning
1933 Hold Your Man Miss Campbell (uncredited)
1932 Girl Grief Miss Tuttle, Principal
1932 Hot Saturday Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
1932 Amateur Daddy Saleslady
1932 Mr. Bride Mrs. Cecil
1932 Young Bride Landlady (uncredited)
1932 Pack Up Your Troubles Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
1932 The Bitter Tea of General Yen Missionary
1932 The Millionaire Cat Aunt Mathilda
1931 Arrowsmith Nurse (uncredited)
1931 East Lynne Charity Bazaar Committee
1931 Everything’s Rosie Hotel Proprietress
1931 The Ruling Voice Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
1931 Street Scene Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
1931 Millie Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
1930 Seven Days Leave Amelia Twymley
1930 Only Saps Work Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
1930 The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930 Little Accident Dr. Zernecke
1930 Hell's Angels Helen's Maid (uncredited)
1929 Seven Footprints to Satan Old Witch
1929 Footlights and Fools (uncredited)
1928 A Trick of Hearts The Mayor
1928 The Baby Cyclone Mrs. Crandall
1928 The Cavalier Lucia's Aunt
1928 Driftwood Mrs. Prouty
1927 The Silent Rider Mrs. Randall
1927 The Demi-Bride School Teacher
1927 The Devil Dancer Julia
1927 Sensation Seekers Mrs. Lodge
1927 The Fortune Hunter Betty Carpenter
1927 Girls Matron Helen Hunt
1927 Too Many Crooks (uncredited)
1927 Born to Battle Ma Cowan
1926 Chip of the Flying U Dr. Cecil Grantham
1926 Midnight Faces Mrs. Hart
1925 His Majesty, Bunker Bean Countess Casanova
1924 The Deadwood Coach Matilda Shields - in play
1922 Manslaughter Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
1922 Timothy's Quest Townswoman
1921 Footfalls
1920 The Daughter Pays
1920 Red Foam
1919 An Amateur Widow
1919 Woman, Woman! Mrs. Lindsay
1918 American Buds Emily
1918 Prunella
1918 Love Net Miss Prudence Tilly
1918 By Hook or Crook Aunt Marie
1917 The Wild Girl Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1917 A Royal Romance Miss McPherson
1917 The Poor Little Rich Girl One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
1917 Tillie Wakes Up Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
1916 The Social Secretary Spinster (uncredited)
1916 A Model Husband Mrs Gossip
1915 The Arrival of Perpetua Abigail Majendrie
Year TV Show Role
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