Nora Cecil
144 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 24, 1878
- Died
- May 1, 1951 (age 72)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Norah Cecile · Nora Cecile
Biography
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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.")
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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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Known for
Nora Cecil: movies and TV shows
Acting (144)
- 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy
as Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1947 Mourning Becomes Electra
as Louisa Ames
- 1947 The Sea of Grass
as Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
- 1946 Big Town
as Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
- 1946 The Missing Lady
as Miss Millie
- 1946 Two Sisters from Boston
as Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
- 1945
- 1944 The Thin Man Goes Home
as Miss Peavy
- 1944 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
- 1944 Hail the Conquering Hero
as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
- 1943 The Unknown Guest
as Martha Williams
- 1942 I Married a Witch
as Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
- 1942 Apache Trail
as Passenger (uncredited)
- 1942 The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Miss Updike
- 1942 Obliging Young Lady
as Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
- 1941 Three Girls About Town
as Casket Customer
- 1941 A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Charwoman
- 1940 The Bank Dick
as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
- 1940 Little Men
as Head of Orphanage
- 1940 Young People
as Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
- 1940 Lucky Partners
as Women's Club President (uncredited)
- 1940 Those Were the Days!
as Mrs. Moffett
- 1939 What a Life
as Miss Eggleston
- 1939 Some Like It Hot
as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
- 1939 Union Pacific
as Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
- 1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Miss Jenkins
- 1939 Stagecoach
as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
- 1939 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
- 1938 Mr. Boggs Steps Out
as Widow Peddie
- 1938 International Settlement
as English Woman
- 1937 Borrowing Trouble
as Dressmaker
- 1937 Nothing Sacred
as Schoolteacher (uncredited)
- 1937 Blossoms On Broadway
as Leader of Committee (uncredited)
- 1937 Partners in Crime
as Housekeeper
- 1937 She Asked for It
as Elderly lady (uncredited)
- 1937 Easy Living
as Miss Swerf
- 1937
- 1937 Three Smart Boys
as Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
- 1937
- 1937 Champagne Waltz
as Train Passenger
- 1937 The Mighty Treve
as Old Maid at Dog Show
- 1936 College Holiday
as Miss Elkins (uncredited)
- 1936 Laughing at Trouble
as Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
- 1936 Under Your Spell
as School Teacher (uncredited)
- 1936 The Big Broadcast of 1937
as Home Economics Woman
- 1936
- 1936 Girl of the Ozarks
as Miss Trent
- 1936 Little Miss Nobody
as Mrs. Robinson
- 1936 Fury
as Albert's Mother (uncredited)
- 1936 Dancing Pirate
as Landlady (uncredited)
- 1936 Two in the Dark
as Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
- 1935 Collegiate
as Miss Curtiss
- 1935 Way Down East
as Townswoman at Party
- 1935 Slightly Static
as Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
- 1935 Vagabond Lady
as Miss Perkins (uncredited)
- 1935 Gold Diggers of 1935
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
- 1935 Car 99
as Granny Adams
- 1935 Memories and Melodies
as Customer (uncredited)
- 1935 Biography of a Bachelor Girl
as Ship's Matron (uncredited)
- 1934 The Merry Widow
as Animal Woman (uncredited)
- 1934 Opened by Mistake
as Head Nurse
- 1934 The Spectacle Maker
as Duchess
- 1934 Chained
as Edith (uncredited)
- 1934 One-Horse Farmers
as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
- 1934 Bachelor Bait
as Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
- 1934 The Old-Fashioned Way
as Mrs. Wendelschaffer
- 1934 Upperworld
as Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
- 1934 Laughing Boy
as Schoolteacher
- 1934 You're Telling Me!
as Mrs. Price
- 1934 Once to Every Woman
as Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
- 1934 Mixed Nuts
as Mrs. Twitchett
- 1934 Search for Beauty
as Miss Pettigrew
- 1933 Design for Living
as Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1933 Going Hollywood
as Briarcroft's Teacher
- 1933 Meet the Baron
as Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
- 1933 Stage Mother
as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
- 1933 Doctor Bull
as Aunt Emily Banning
- 1933 Hold Your Man
as Miss Campbell (uncredited)
- 1933 Peg o' My Heart
as Smythe (maid)
- 1933 Nature in the Wrong
as Muriel's mother
- 1933 King of the Jungle
as Spinster in park (uncredited)
- 1933 Fast Workers
as Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
- 1933 Wreckety Wrecks
as Miss Winterbottom
- 1933 Asleep in the Feet
as Female Police Officer
- 1932 Mr. Bride
as Mrs. Cecil
- 1932 Hot Saturday
as Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
- 1932 The Millionaire Cat
as Aunt Mathilda
- 1932 Girl Grief
as Miss Tuttle, Principal
- 1932 Pack Up Your Troubles
as Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
- 1932 Amateur Daddy
as Saleslady
- 1932 Young Bride
as Landlady (uncredited)
- 1931 Arrowsmith
as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1931 The Ruling Voice
as Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
- 1931 Street Scene
as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
- 1931 Everything’s Rosie
as Hotel Proprietress
- 1931 East Lynne
as Charity Bazaar Committee
- 1931 Millie
as Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
- 1930 Only Saps Work
as Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
- 1930 Hell's Angels
as Helen's Maid (uncredited)
- 1930 Little Accident
as Dr. Zernecke
- 1930
- 1930 Seven Days Leave
as Amelia Twymley
- 1929 Footlights and Fools
as (uncredited)
- 1929 Seven Footprints to Satan
as Old Witch
- 1928 The Cavalier
as Lucia's Aunt
- 1928 Driftwood
as Mrs. Prouty
- 1928 The Baby Cyclone
as Mrs. Crandall
- 1928 A Trick of Hearts
as The Mayor
- 1927 The Devil Dancer
as Julia
- 1927 Born to Battle
as Ma Cowan
- 1927 Too Many Crooks
as (uncredited)
- 1927 Girls
as Matron Helen Hunt
- 1927 Sensation Seekers
as Mrs. Lodge
- 1927 The Demi-Bride
as School Teacher
- 1927 The Fortune Hunter
as Betty Carpenter
- 1927 The Silent Rider
as Mrs. Randall
- 1926 Midnight Faces
as Mrs. Hart
- 1926 Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
- 1925
- 1925 His Majesty, Bunker Bean
as Countess Casanova
- 1924 The Deadwood Coach
as Matilda Shields - in play
- 1924 Darwin Was Right
as Aunt Priscilla
- 1922 The Town That Forgot God
as (uncredited)
- 1922 Manslaughter
as Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
- 1922 Timothy's Quest
as Townswoman
- 1921
- 1920
- 1920
- 1919 Woman, Woman!
as Mrs. Lindsay
- 1919 Miss Crusoe
as Miss Meeker (uncredited)
- 1919
- 1918 Love Net
as Miss Prudence Tilly
- 1918 The Zero Hour
as Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
- 1918 Appearance of Evil
as Miss Spurgeon
- 1918 By Hook or Crook
as Aunt Marie
- 1918 American Buds
as Emily
- 1918
- 1917 The Wild Girl
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- 1917 A Royal Romance
as Miss McPherson
- 1917 The Poor Little Rich Girl
as One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
- 1917 Tillie Wakes Up
as Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
- 1916 The Social Secretary
as Spinster (uncredited)
- 1916 A Model Husband
as Mrs Gossip
- 1915 The Arrival of Perpetua
as Abigail Majendrie