Name
Nora Cecil
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1878-09-24
Deathday
1951-05-01 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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- 1937 Night of Mystery
- 1946 Big Town as Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
- 1925 His Majesty, Bunker Bean as Countess Casanova
- 1929 Seven Footprints to Satan as Old Witch
- 1924 The Deadwood Coach as Matilda Shields - in play
- 1917 The Wild Girl as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- 1944 The Thin Man Goes Home as Miss Peavy
- 1927 The Silent Rider as Mrs. Randall
- 1927 The Demi-Bride as School Teacher
- 1937 Three Smart Boys as Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
- 1917 A Royal Romance as Miss McPherson
- 1922 Manslaughter as Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
- 1937 Night Must Fall
- 1936 Under Your Spell as School Teacher (uncredited)
- 1933 Nature in the Wrong as Muriel's mother
- 1928 A Trick of Hearts as The Mayor
- 1927 The Devil Dancer as Julia
- 1931 Arrowsmith as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1934 Mixed Nuts as Mrs. Twitchett
- 1945 Lady on a Train
- 1930 Seven Days Leave as Amelia Twymley
- 1934 Laughing Boy as Schoolteacher
- 1921 Footfalls
- 1938 Mr. Boggs Steps Out as Widow Peddie
- 1936 College Holiday as Miss Elkins (uncredited)
- 1932 Girl Grief as Miss Tuttle, Principal
- 1936 Little Miss Nobody as Mrs. Robinson
- 1935 Car 99 as Granny Adams
- 1937 Partners in Crime as Housekeeper
- 1934 Search for Beauty as Miss Pettigrew
- 1943 The Unknown Guest as Martha Williams
- 1933 Asleep in the Feet as Female Police Officer
- 1918 American Buds as Emily
- 1937 She Asked for It as Elderly lady (uncredited)
- 1920 The Daughter Pays
- 1939 What a Life as Miss Eggleston
- 1917 The Poor Little Rich Girl as One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
- 1933 Peg o' My Heart as Smythe (maid)
- 1926 Chip of the Flying U as Dr. Cecil Grantham
- 1927 Sensation Seekers as Mrs. Lodge
- 1934 One-Horse Farmers as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
- 1934 Opened by Mistake as Head Nurse
- 1937 Easy Living as Miss Swerf
- 1944 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
- 1932 Hot Saturday as Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
- 1935 Slightly Static as Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
- 1933 Going Hollywood as Briarcroft's Teacher
- 1935 Way Down East as Townswoman at Party
- 1931 East Lynne as Charity Bazaar Committee
- 1940 The Bank Dick as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
- 1933 Stage Mother as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
- 1930 Only Saps Work as Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
- 1933 King of the Jungle as Spinster in park (uncredited)
- 1931 Everything’s Rosie as Hotel Proprietress
- 1939 Stagecoach as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
- 1939 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
- 1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Miss Jenkins
- 1939 Union Pacific as Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
- 1930 The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
- 1936 Fury as Albert's Mother (uncredited)
- 1938 International Settlement as English Woman
- 1933 Fast Workers as Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
- 1939 Some Like It Hot as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
- 1933 Design for Living as Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1947 Mourning Becomes Electra as Louisa Ames
- 1932 Amateur Daddy as Saleslady
- 1927 The Fortune Hunter as Betty Carpenter
- 1947 The Sea of Grass as Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
- 1916 The Social Secretary as Spinster (uncredited)
- 1917 Tillie Wakes Up as Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
- 1922 Timothy's Quest as Townswoman
- 1936 Two in the Dark as Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
- 1933 Wreckety Wrecks as Miss Winterbottom
- 1941 A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Charwoman
- 1940 Lucky Partners as Women's Club President (uncredited)
- 1940 Little Men as Head of Orphanage
- 1940 Young People as Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
- 1937 Champagne Waltz as Train Passenger
- 1937 Nothing Sacred as Schoolteacher (uncredited)
- 1933 Meet the Baron as Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
- 1936 The Big Broadcast of 1937 as Home Economics Woman
- 1934 The Merry Widow as Animal Woman (uncredited)
- 1934 The Old-Fashioned Way as Mrs. Wendelschaffer
- 1933 Doctor Bull as Aunt Emily Banning
- 1942 I Married a Witch as Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
- 1932 Mr. Bride as Mrs. Cecil
- 1941 Three Girls About Town as Casket Customer
- 1942 Apache Trail as Passenger (uncredited)
- 1929 Footlights and Fools as (uncredited)
- 1942 The Wife Takes a Flyer as Miss Updike
- 1931 The Ruling Voice as Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
- 1935 Biography of a Bachelor Girl as Ship's Matron (uncredited)
- 1916 A Model Husband as Mrs Gossip
- 1930 Little Accident as Dr. Zernecke
- 1942 Obliging Young Lady as Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
- 1930 Hell's Angels as Helen's Maid (uncredited)
- 1935 Memories and Melodies as Customer (uncredited)
- 1935 Gold Diggers of 1935 as Housekeeper (uncredited)
- 1932 Young Bride as Landlady (uncredited)
- 1931 Street Scene as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
- 1932 Pack Up Your Troubles as Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
- 1927 Girls as Matron Helen Hunt
- 1934 Chained as Edith (uncredited)
- 1937 Borrowing Trouble as Dressmaker
- 1934 You're Telling Me! as Mrs. Price
- 1928 The Baby Cyclone as Mrs. Crandall
- 1934 The Spectacle Maker as Duchess
- 1937 The Mighty Treve as Old Maid at Dog Show
- 1928 The Cavalier as Lucia's Aunt
- 1918 Prunella
- 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy as Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1926 Midnight Faces as Mrs. Hart
- 1934 Bachelor Bait as Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
- 1931 Millie as Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
- 1937 Blossoms On Broadway as Leader of Committee (uncredited)
- 1946 Two Sisters from Boston as Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
- 1936 Dancing Pirate as Landlady (uncredited)
- 1946 The Missing Lady as Miss Millie
- 1936 Let's Make a Million
- 1927 Too Many Crooks as (uncredited)
- 1935 Collegiate as Miss Curtiss
- 1918 Love Net as Miss Prudence Tilly
- 1918 By Hook or Crook as Aunt Marie
- 1935 Vagabond Lady as Miss Perkins (uncredited)
- 1932 The Bitter Tea of General Yen as Missionary
- 1915 The Arrival of Perpetua as Abigail Majendrie
- 1920 Red Foam
- 1919 An Amateur Widow
- 1944 Hail the Conquering Hero as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
- 1933 Hold Your Man as Miss Campbell (uncredited)
- 1928 Driftwood as Mrs. Prouty
- 1936 Laughing at Trouble as Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
- 1919 Woman, Woman! as Mrs. Lindsay
- 1934 Once to Every Woman as Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
- 1940 Those Were the Days! as Mrs. Moffett
- 1936 Girl of the Ozarks as Miss Trent
- 1932 The Millionaire Cat as Aunt Mathilda
- 1927 Born to Battle as Ma Cowan
- 1934 Upperworld as Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
- 1922 The Town That Forgot God as (uncredited)
- 1918 Appearance of Evil as Miss Spurgeon
- 1918 The Zero Hour as Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
- 1924 Darwin Was Right as Aunt Priscilla
- 1919 Miss Crusoe as Miss Meeker (uncredited)
- 1925 Three Weeks in Paris
