Name
Minerva Urecal
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1894-09-20
Deathday
1966-02-26 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Eureka, California, USA
Biography
A stage actress, Urecal made her screen debut in 1934. For the remainder of her career and two hundred plus movies, she played cleaning women, landladies, shopkeepers and the like. She was known as a Marjorie Main type actress and later went on to a career in television playing in such shows as "Tugboat Annie" and "Peter Gunn." Minerva claimed her name was an amalgam of her hometown, Eureka, California.
Known For
Shadow of a Doubt
(1,204 Votes)
7.498
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Un...
Relase Date : 15 Jan, 1943
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Destry Rides Again
(206 Votes)
7.204
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he...
Relase Date : 30 Nov, 1939
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The Dark Corner
(74 Votes)
6.6
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and may...
Relase Date : 9 Apr, 1946
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes
(49 Votes)
6.806
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relat...
Relase Date : 20 Aug, 1948
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Mr. Skeffington
(78 Votes)
6.833
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of...
Relase Date : 25 May, 1944
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
(101 Votes)
6.505
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists...
Relase Date : 15 Jun, 1962
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The Bells of St. Mary's
(156 Votes)
6.9
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemn...
Relase Date : 27 Dec, 1945
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 1945 Salty O'Rourke as Saleslady (uncredited)
- 1945 State Fair as Woman Congratulating Mrs. Metcalf (uncredited)
- 1945 Wanderer of the Wasteland as Mama Rafferty
- 1942 The Corpse Vanishes as Fagah
- 1942 The Living Ghost as Delia Phillips
- 1941 Never Give a Sucker an Even Break as The Cleaning Lady
- 1942 Lady for a Night as Spinster in Audience (uncredited)
- 1955 Double Jeopardy as Mrs. Kreesy
- 1964 7 Faces of Dr. Lao as Kate Lindquist
- 1941 A Man Betrayed as Librarian (uncredited)
- 1943 The Ape Man as Agatha Brewster
- 1946 Without Reservations as Sue (uncredited)
- 1941 Bowery Blitzkrieg as Head of Reform School (uncredited)
- 1946 The Trap as Miss Weebles, the Housekeeper
- 1936 Three Godfathers as Parishioner (uncredited)
- 1946 Sioux City Sue as Mrs. Abercrombie - Elite Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- 1953 Niagara as Mrs. McGrand (uncredited)
- 1949 The Lovable Cheat as Virginie
- 1947 The Lost Moment as Maria
- 1950 The Jackpot as Woman Trying On Hats (uncredited)
- 1955 Sudden Danger as Mrs. Kelly
- 1944 The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Uncle Pio's Servant (uncredited)
- 1943 Pitchin' in the Kitchen as Miss Clabber (uncredited)
- 1938 Frontier Scout as Helen
- 1941 Murder Among Friends as Mrs. O'Heaney (uncredited)
- 1950 The Arizona Cowboy as Cactus Kate Millican
- 1951 The Raging Tide as Johnnie Mae Swanson
- 1942 A Tragedy at Midnight as Housekeeper (uncredited)
- 1943 They Stooge to Conga as Marsha - the Nazi Housekeeper (uncredited)
- 1951 Dear Brat as Neighbor (uncredited)
- 1936 Love on a Bet as Miss Jones, MacCreigh's Secretary
- 1941 Accent on Love as Teresa Lombroso
- 1952 Harem Girl as Aniseh
- 1945 The Kid Sister as Mrs. Wiggins
- 1939 No Place to Go as Miss Rice
- 1935 Man on the Flying Trapeze as Italian Woman in Ambulance (uncredited)
- 1946 Wake Up and Dream as Edna Lucash
- 1952 Oklahoma Annie as Lottie Fling
- 1942 Sweater Girl as Melinda
- 1937 Exiled to Shanghai as Claire
- 1948 Family Honeymoon as Mrs. Webb (uncredited)
- 1950 Side Street as Landlady
- 1938 Dramatic School as Rose - Boulin's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1945 Mr. Muggs Rides Again as Nora Brown
- 1947 Cynthia as Agnes, Jannings' Cook (Uncredited)
- 1942 My Favorite Blonde as Stone-Faced Woman (uncredited)
- 1944 Louisiana Hayride as Ma Crocker
- 1935 His Night Out as Wife (uncredited)
- 1938 Prison Nurse as Sutherland
- 1938 Air Devils as Margaret Price
- 1938 The Lady in the Morgue as Mrs. Horn (uncredited)
- 1953 She's Back on Broadway as Cleaning Lady
- 1942 That Other Woman as Mrs. MacReady
- 1946 Andy Plays Hookey as Andy's Mother-in-Law
- 1951 Stop That Cab as Lucy's Mother
- 1941 The Cowboy and the Blonde as Murphy
- 1944 Bachelor Daze as Abigail O'Rourke
- 1943 The Powers Girl as Maggie (uncredited)
- 1951 The Awful Sleuth as Bert's Mother-In-Law
- 1941 Arkansas Judge as Miranda Wolfson
- 1937 Ever Since Eve as Bellden's Receptionist (uncredited)
- 1942 The Daring Young Man as Nurse
- 1943 So This Is Washington as Mrs. Pomeroy (uncredited)
- 1939 Four Girls in White as Miss Perch - a Nurse
- 1945 A Medal for Benny as Mrs. Chavez (uncredited)
- 1946 The Virginian
- 1938 Start Cheering as Miss Grimley
- 1935 Here Comes the Band as Italian Wife (uncredited)
- 1937 Mountain Justice as Ella Crippen
- 1942 Henry and Dizzy as Mrs. Kilmer
- 1953 Woman They Almost Lynched as Mrs. Stuart
- 1939 You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Screaming Spinster at Circus (uncredited)
- 1939 Second Fiddle as Miss Bland, the School Principal
- 1939 Golden Boy as Grocery Customer
- 1937 Her Husband's Secretary as Miss Baldwin
- 1948 Sitting Pretty as Mrs. Maypole (uncredited)
- 1933 Bombshell as Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
- 1939 Destry Rides Again as Mrs. DeWitt (uncredited)
- 1939 Missing Evidence as Amy, Housewife
- 1939 Dancing Co-Ed as Woman on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
- 1947 Apache Rose as Felicia
- 1940 San Francisco Docks as Landlady
- 1936 Fury as Fanny (uncredited)
- 1937 She Loved a Fireman as Nurse Purdy
- 1955 Marty as Mrs. Rosari (uncredited)
- 1953 Two Gun Marshal as Mama Antonelli
- 1952 Gobs and Gals as Mrs. Pursell
- 1945 The Bells of St. Mary's as Landlady (uncredited)
- 1945 Sensation Hunters as Edna Rogers
- 1942 The Man in the Trunk as Peggy's Landlady (uncredited)
- 1948 Night Has a Thousand Eyes as Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)
- 1943 Shadow of a Doubt as Mrs. Henderson (uncredited)
- 1944 Crazy Knights as Mrs. Benson
- 1946 Breakfast in Hollywood as Miss Mullins (uncredited)
- 1946 Partners in Time as Miss Abernathy (uncredited)
- 1943 Dixie Dugan as Mrs. Wilson (uncredited)
- 1942 Beyond the Blue Horizon as Wife at Circus (uncredited)
- 1940 Boys of the City as Agnes
- 1941 Dressed to Kill as Landlady
- 1948 April Showers as Landlady (uncredited)
- 1938 City Streets as Mrs. Grimley (uncredited)
- 1949 Holiday in Havana as Mama Valdez
- 1947 Bowery Buckaroos as Kate T. Barlow
- 1944 The Mark of the Whistler as Woman Sweeping Front Stoop (uncredited)
- 1945 Voice of the Whistler as Georgie's Wife (uncredited)
- 1937 Oh, Doctor as Death Watch Mary Mackleforth
- 1940 The Sagebrush Family Trails West as Widow Gail
- 1944 Moonlight and Cactus as Abigail
- 1934 Student Tour as Wife
- 1944 Man from Frisco as Mrs. Allison
- 1940 The Ape as Townswoman
- 1940 No, No, Nanette as Woman in Airport
- 1944 Mr. Skeffington as Woman in Beauty Shop (uncredited)
- 1949 Master Minds as Mrs. Hoskins
- 1940 Wildcat Bus as Old Maid (uncredited)
- 1933 Meet the Baron as Downstairs Maid (uncredited)
- 1965 That Funny Feeling as Woman at Phone Booth
- 1939 Sabotage as (uncredited)
- 1943 Keep 'Em Slugging as Miss Billings
- 1942 Riding Through Nevada as Widow Humbolt
- 1942 The Sons of the Pioneers as Ellie Bixby
- 1952 Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick as Mrs. Peabody
- 1946 Rainbow Over Texas as Mama Lolita
- 1948 Sundown in Santa Fe as Ella Mae Watson
- 1948 Marshal of Amarillo as Mrs. Henry Pettigrew
- 1940 You Can't Fool Your Wife as Mrs. Doolittle
- 1942 In Old California as Mrs. Carson
- 1949 Outcasts of the Trail as Abbie Rysen
- 1947 Undercover Maisie as Cafe Cook
- 1952 Lost in Alaska as Mrs. McGillicuddy
- 1941 They Died with Their Boots On as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1941 Murder by Invitation as Maxine Denham
- 1944 One Mysterious Night as Miss Wilkinson (Uncredited)
- 1948 Good Sam as Mrs. Nelson
- 1962 Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation as Brenda
- 1948 The Strange Mrs. Crane as Nellie Carter
- 1941 Golden Hoofs as Myrt
- 1939 S.O.S Tidal Wave
- 1937 Life Begins with Love as Mrs. Murphy
- 1943 Dangerous Blondes as Mrs. Swanson, Housekeeper (uncredited)
- 1937 The Go-Getter as Cappy Ricks' Secretary
- 1943 Quiet Please, Murder as Cookbook-Seeking Library Patron
- 1948 Variety Time as Aunt Jessie (footage from 'Hired Husband') (archive footage)
- 1950 Quicksand as Landlady
- 1938 The Devil's Party as Maria
- 1945 Men in Her Diary as Mrs. Braun
- 1946 The Well Groomed Bride as Woman in Ticket Line
- 1943 Kid Dynamite as Judge
- 1944 Block Busters as Amelia Rogiet
- 1943 Something to Shout About as Mrs. Starretton
- 1943 Ghosts on the Loose as Hilda
- 1937 Behind the Mike as Mrs. Reilly
- 1939 Maid to Order as Mail-Order Bride
- 1943 Hit the Ice as Wife at Hospital (uncredited)
- 1947 The Devil Thumbs a Ride
- 1949 Take One False Step as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
- 1945 A Bell for Adano as Italian Woman (uncredited)
- 1948 The Noose Hangs High as Husky Woman (uncredited)
- 1950 His Baiting Beauty as Harry's Mother-in-Law
- 1947 California as Emma (uncredited)
- 1944 When Strangers Marry as Landlady (uncredited)
- 1947 Undercover Maisie as Delicatessen Woman (uncredited)
- 1955 A Man Alone as Mrs. Maule (uncredited)
- 1948 Secret Service Investigator as Mrs McGiven
- 1946 The Dark Corner as Client Wife (uncredited)
- 1947 Hired Husband as Aunt Jessie
- 1941 Marry the Boss's Daughter as Elevator Passenger
- 1949 The Doolins of Oklahoma as Train Passenger (uncredited)
- 1947 Heartaches as Charwoman (uncredited)
- 1934 Sadie McKee as Brennan’s Cook’s Assistant (uncredited)
- 1937 Charlie Chan at the Olympics as Gang Member Posing as Olympics Matron
- 1937 Love in a Bungalow as Mrs. Kester
- 1944 Music in Manhattan as Mrs. Smith, the Landlady (uncredited)
- 1991 Halloween Monster Bash as Fagah (archive footage)
- 1952 Happy Go Wacky
- 1949 Down to the Sea in Ships as Mother (uncredited)
- 1963 Petticoat Junction ( 1 episode ) as Martha Winslow
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Landlady
- 1960 Angel ( 1 episode )
- 1958 The Adventures of Tugboat Annie ( 14 episodes )
- 1950 The Gene Autry Show ( 1 episode )
- 1956 The Adventures of Jim Bowie ( 4 episodes ) as Ma Bowie
- 1951 The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ( 1 episode )
- 1952 Cavalcade of America ( 1 episode )
- 1951 The Roy Rogers Show ( 1 episode )
- 1953 Meet Mr. McNutley ( 76 episodes )
- 1958 Peter Gunn ( 76 episodes ) as Mother
- 1963 Petticoat Junction ( 1 episode ) as Martha Griffin
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Martha Glenhorn
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Busybody
- 1952 The Abbott and Costello Show ( 1 episode ) as Indian Woman
- 1952 The Abbott and Costello Show ( 1 episode ) as Singing Student
- 1952 The Abbott and Costello Show ( 1 episode ) as Woman Checking Out Bud and Lou's Apartment
- 1953 The Danny Thomas Show ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Enright
