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Nora Cecil
Born · September 24, 1878
Died · May 1, 1951 (72 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Bio
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.
The Big Parade of Comedy
Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.3
1964
Mourning Becomes Electra
Louisa Ames
6.3
1947
The Sea of Grass
Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
6.3
1947
Big Town
Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
4.8
1946
The Missing Lady
Miss Millie
4.8
1946
Two Sisters from Boston
Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
6.0
1946
Lady on a Train
6.5
1945
The Thin Man Goes Home
Miss Peavy
7.1
1944
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
6.8
1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
7.0
1944
The Unknown Guest
Martha Williams
0.0
1943
I Married a Witch
Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
6.8
1942
Apache Trail
Passenger (uncredited)
6.4
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Miss Updike
4.5
1942
Obliging Young Lady
Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
5.0
1942
Three Girls About Town
Casket Customer
5.3
1941
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Charwoman
4.7
1941
The Bank Dick
Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
6.5
1940
Little Men
Head of Orphanage
6.1
1940
Young People
Righteous Old Lady
4.6
1940
Lucky Partners
Women's Club President (uncredited)
6.0
1940
What a Life
Miss Eggleston
0.0
1939
Some Like It Hot
Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
7.2
1939
Union Pacific
Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
6.5
1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Miss Jenkins
5.9
1939
Stagecoach
Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
7.6
1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
6.5
1939
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Widow Peddie
5.5
1938
International Settlement
English Woman
5.0
1938
Borrowing Trouble
Dressmaker
6.0
1937
Nothing Sacred
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
6.2
1937
Blossoms On Broadway
Leader of Committee (uncredited)
4.0
1937
Partners in Crime
Housekeeper
0.0
1937
She Asked for It
Elderly lady (uncredited)
6.0
1937
Easy Living
Miss Swerf
7.0
1937
Night of Mystery
0.0
1937
Three Smart Boys
Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
6.5
1937
Night Must Fall
7.1
1937
Champagne Waltz
Train Passenger
0.0
1937
The Mighty Treve
Old Maid at Dog Show
6.0
1937
College Holiday
Miss Elkins (uncredited)
5.2
1936
Laughing at Trouble
Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
6.0
1936
Under Your Spell
School Teacher (uncredited)
7.0
1936
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Home Economics Woman
5.2
1936
Let's Make a Million
0.0
1936
Little Miss Nobody
Mrs. Robinson
6.0
1936
Fury
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
7.5
1936
Dancing Pirate
Landlady (uncredited)
5.6
1936
Collegiate
Miss Curtiss
0.0
1936
Two in the Dark
Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
5.9
1936
Way Down East
Townswoman at Party
3.0
1935
Slightly Static
Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
0.0
1935
Vagabond Lady
Miss Perkins (uncredited)
7.2
1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
Housekeeper (uncredited)
6.4
1935
Car 99
Granny Adams
5.0
1935
Memories and Melodies
Customer (uncredited)
0.0
1935
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Ship's Matron (uncredited)
6.3
1935
The Merry Widow
Animal Woman (uncredited)
6.7
1934
Opened by Mistake
Head Nurse
0.0
1934
The Spectacle Maker
Duchess
5.6
1934
Chained
Edith (uncredited)
6.8
1934
One-Horse Farmers
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
0.0
1934
Bachelor Bait
Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
5.7
1934
The Old-Fashioned Way
Mrs. Wendelschaffer
7.1
1934
Upperworld
Housekeeper (uncredited)
6.3
1934
Laughing Boy
Schoolteacher
3.6
1934
You're Telling Me!
Mrs. Price
6.4
1934
Mixed Nuts
Mrs. Twitchett
6.2
1934
Search for Beauty
Miss Pettigrew
5.9
1934
Design for Living
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
7.2
1933
Going Hollywood
Briarcroft's Teacher
5.5
1933
Meet the Baron
Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
4.3
1933
Stage Mother
Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss
5.0
1933
Doctor Bull
Aunt Emily Banning
6.5
1933
Hold Your Man
Miss Campbell (uncredited)
6.1
1933
Peg o' My Heart
Smythe (maid)
5.2
1933
Nature in the Wrong
Muriel's mother
0.0
1933
King of the Jungle
Spinster in park (uncredited)
5.0
1933
Fast Workers
Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
5.3
1933
Wreckety Wrecks
Miss Winterbottom
0.0
1933
Asleep in the Feet
Female Police Officer
1.0
1933
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Missionary
6.1
1932
Mr. Bride
Mrs. Cecil
5.5
1932
Hot Saturday
Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
6.5
1932
Girl Grief
Miss Tuttle, Principal
5.0
1932
Pack Up Your Troubles
Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
6.7
1932
Amateur Daddy
Saleslady
0.0
1932
Young Bride
Landlady (uncredited)
3.0
1932
Arrowsmith
Nurse (uncredited)
6.5
1931
The Ruling Voice
Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
6.0
1931
Street Scene
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
6.8
1931
Everything’s Rosie
Hotel Proprietress
4.0
1931
East Lynne
Charity Bazaar Committee
6.3
1931
Millie
Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
5.6
1931
Only Saps Work
Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
5.5
1930
Hell's Angels
Helen's Maid (uncredited)
6.5
1930
Little Accident
Dr. Zernecke
0.0
1930
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
5.0
1930
Seven Days Leave
Amelia Twymley
7.0
1930
Footlights and Fools
(uncredited)
0.0
1929
Seven Footprints to Satan
Old Witch
6.0
1929
The Cavalier
Lucia's Aunt
0.0
1928
Driftwood
Mrs. Prouty
0.0
1928
The Baby Cyclone
Mrs. Crandall
0.0
1928
A Trick of Hearts
The Mayor
0.0
1928
The Devil Dancer
Julia
5.0
1927
Too Many Crooks
(uncredited)
0.0
1927
Girls
Matron Helen Hunt
4.5
1927
Sensation Seekers
Mrs. Lodge
6.4
1927
The Demi-Bride
School Teacher
0.0
1927
The Fortune Hunter
Betty Carpenter
0.0
1927
The Silent Rider
Mrs. Randall
0.0
1927
Midnight Faces
Mrs. Hart
4.5
1926
Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham
0.0
1926
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Countess Casanova
0.0
1925
The Deadwood Coach
Matilda Shields - in play
0.0
1924
Manslaughter
Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
5.4
1922
Timothy's Quest
Townswoman
6.3
1922
Footfalls
0.0
1921
The Daughter Pays
0.0
1920
Red Foam
0.0
1920
Woman, Woman!
Mrs. Lindsay
0.0
1919
An Amateur Widow
0.0
1919
Love Net
Miss Prudence Tilly
0.0
1918
By Hook or Crook
Aunt Marie
0.0
1918
American Buds
Emily
0.0
1918
Prunella
0.0
1918
The Wild Girl
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
0.0
1917
A Royal Romance
Miss McPherson
0.0
1917
The Poor Little Rich Girl
One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
5.8
1917
Tillie Wakes Up
Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
6.0
1917
The Social Secretary
Spinster (uncredited)
5.6
1916
A Model Husband
Mrs Gossip
5.0
1916
The Arrival of Perpetua
Abigail Majendrie
0.0
1915