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