Minerva Urecal
Acting • Born 1894-09-20 – Died 1966-02-26
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.
Filmography
190 credits
Salty O'Rourke
Movie • 1945
Saleslady (uncredited)
State Fair
Movie • 1945
Woman Congratulating Mrs. Metcalf (uncredited)
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Movie • 1945
Mama Rafferty
The Corpse Vanishes
Movie • 1942
Fagah
The Living Ghost
Movie • 1942
Delia Phillips
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Movie • 1941
The Cleaning Lady
Lady for a Night
Movie • 1942
Spinster in Audience (uncredited)
Double Jeopardy
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Kreesy
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Movie • 1964
Kate Lindquist
A Man Betrayed
Movie • 1941
Librarian (uncredited)
The Ape Man
Movie • 1943
Agatha Brewster
Without Reservations
Movie • 1946
Sue (uncredited)
Bowery Blitzkrieg
Movie • 1941
Head of Reform School (uncredited)
The Trap
Movie • 1946
Miss Weebles, the Housekeeper
Three Godfathers
Movie • 1936
Parishioner (uncredited)
Sioux City Sue
Movie • 1946
Mrs. Abercrombie - Elite Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Niagara
Movie • 1953
Mrs. McGrand
The Lovable Cheat
Movie • 1949
Virginie
The Lost Moment
Movie • 1947
Maria
The Jackpot
Movie • 1950
Woman Trying On Hats (uncredited)
Sudden Danger
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Kelly
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Movie • 1944
Uncle Pio's Servant (uncredited)
Pitchin' in the Kitchen
Movie • 1943
Miss Clabber (uncredited)
Frontier Scout
Movie • 1938
Helen
Murder Among Friends
Movie • 1941
Mrs. O'Heaney (uncredited)
The Arizona Cowboy
Movie • 1950
Cactus Kate Millican
The Raging Tide
Movie • 1951
Johnnie Mae Swanson
A Tragedy at Midnight
Movie • 1942
Housekeeper (uncredited)
They Stooge to Conga
Movie • 1943
Marsha - the Nazi Housekeeper (uncredited)
Dear Brat
Movie • 1951
Neighbor (uncredited)
Love on a Bet
Movie • 1936
Miss Jones, MacCreigh's Secretary
Accent on Love
Movie • 1941
Teresa Lombroso
Harem Girl
Movie • 1952
Aniseh
The Kid Sister
Movie • 1945
Mrs. Wiggins
No Place to Go
Movie • 1939
Miss Rice
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Movie • 1935
Italian Woman in Ambulance (uncredited)
Wake Up and Dream
Movie • 1946
Edna Lucash
Oklahoma Annie
Movie • 1952
Lottie Fling
Sweater Girl
Movie • 1942
Melinda
Exiled to Shanghai
Movie • 1937
Claire
Family Honeymoon
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Webb (uncredited)
Side Street
Movie • 1950
Landlady
Dramatic School
Movie • 1938
Rose - Boulin's Secretary (uncredited)
Mr. Muggs Rides Again
Movie • 1945
Nora Brown
Cynthia
Movie • 1947
Agnes, Jannings' Cook (Uncredited)
My Favorite Blonde
Movie • 1942
Stone-Faced Woman (uncredited)
Louisiana Hayride
Movie • 1944
Ma Crocker
His Night Out
Movie • 1935
Wife (uncredited)
Prison Nurse
Movie • 1938
Sutherland
Air Devils
Movie • 1938
Margaret Price
The Lady in the Morgue
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Horn (uncredited)
She's Back on Broadway
Movie • 1953
Cleaning Lady
That Other Woman
Movie • 1942
Mrs. MacReady
Andy Plays Hookey
Movie • 1946
Andy's Mother-in-Law
Stop That Cab
Movie • 1951
Lucy's Mother
The Cowboy and the Blonde
Movie • 1941
Murphy
Bachelor Daze
Movie • 1944
Abigail O'Rourke
The Powers Girl
Movie • 1943
Maggie (uncredited)
The Awful Sleuth
Movie • 1951
Bert's Mother-In-Law
Arkansas Judge
Movie • 1941
Miranda Wolfson
Ever Since Eve
Movie • 1937
Bellden's Receptionist (uncredited)
The Daring Young Man
Movie • 1942
Nurse
So This Is Washington
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Pomeroy (uncredited)
Four Girls in White
Movie • 1939
Miss Perch - a Nurse
A Medal for Benny
Movie • 1945
Mrs. Chavez (uncredited)
The Virginian
Movie • 1946
Start Cheering
Movie • 1938
Miss Grimley
Here Comes the Band
Movie • 1935
Italian Wife (uncredited)
Mountain Justice
Movie • 1937
Ella Crippen
Henry and Dizzy
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Kilmer
Woman They Almost Lynched
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Stuart
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Movie • 1939
Screaming Spinster at Circus (uncredited)
Second Fiddle
Movie • 1939
Miss Bland, the School Principal
Golden Boy
Movie • 1939
Grocery Customer
Her Husband's Secretary
Movie • 1937
Miss Baldwin
Sitting Pretty
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Maypole (uncredited)
Bombshell
Movie • 1933
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Destry Rides Again
Movie • 1939
Mrs. DeWitt (uncredited)
Missing Evidence
Movie • 1939
Amy, Housewife
Dancing Co-Ed
Movie • 1939
Woman on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
Apache Rose
Movie • 1947
Felicia
San Francisco Docks
Movie • 1940
Landlady
Fury
Movie • 1936
Fanny (uncredited)
She Loved a Fireman
Movie • 1937
Nurse Purdy
Marty
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Rosari (uncredited)
Two Gun Marshal
Movie • 1953
Mama Antonelli
Gobs and Gals
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Pursell
The Bells of St. Mary's
Movie • 1945
Landlady (uncredited)
Sensation Hunters
Movie • 1945
Edna Rogers
The Man in the Trunk
Movie • 1942
Peggy's Landlady (uncredited)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Movie • 1948
Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)
Shadow of a Doubt
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Henderson (uncredited)
Crazy Knights
Movie • 1944
Mrs. Benson
Breakfast in Hollywood
Movie • 1946
Miss Mullins (uncredited)
Partners in Time
Movie • 1946
Miss Abernathy (uncredited)
Dixie Dugan
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Wilson (uncredited)
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Movie • 1942
Wife at Circus (uncredited)
Boys of the City
Movie • 1940
Agnes
Dressed to Kill
Movie • 1941
Landlady
April Showers
Movie • 1948
Landlady (uncredited)
City Streets
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Grimley (uncredited)
Holiday in Havana
Movie • 1949
Mama Valdez
Bowery Buckaroos
Movie • 1947
Kate T. Barlow
The Mark of the Whistler
Movie • 1944
Woman Sweeping Front Stoop (uncredited)
Voice of the Whistler
Movie • 1945
Georgie's Wife (uncredited)
Oh, Doctor
Movie • 1937
Death Watch Mary Mackleforth
The Sagebrush Family Trails West
Movie • 1940
Widow Gail
Moonlight and Cactus
Movie • 1944
Abigail
Student Tour
Movie • 1934
Wife
Man from Frisco
Movie • 1944
Mrs. Allison
The Ape
Movie • 1940
Townswoman
No, No, Nanette
Movie • 1940
Woman in Airport
Mr. Skeffington
Movie • 1944
Woman in Beauty Shop (uncredited)
Master Minds
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Hoskins
Wildcat Bus
Movie • 1940
Old Maid (uncredited)
Meet the Baron
Movie • 1933
Downstairs Maid (uncredited)
That Funny Feeling
Movie • 1965
Woman at Phone Booth
Sabotage
Movie • 1939
(uncredited)
Keep 'Em Slugging
Movie • 1943
Miss Billings
Riding Through Nevada
Movie • 1942
Widow Humbolt
Sons of the Pioneers
Movie • 1942
Ellie Bixby
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Peabody
Rainbow Over Texas
Movie • 1946
Mama Lolita
Sundown in Santa Fe
Movie • 1948
Ella Mae Watson
Marshal of Amarillo
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Henry Pettigrew
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Doolittle
In Old California
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Carson
Outcasts of the Trail
Movie • 1949
Abbie Rysen
Undercover Maisie
Movie • 1947
Cafe Cook
Lost in Alaska
Movie • 1952
Mrs. McGillicuddy
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Nurse (uncredited)
Murder by Invitation
Movie • 1941
Maxine Denham
One Mysterious Night
Movie • 1944
Miss Wilkinson (Uncredited)
Good Sam
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Nelson
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Movie • 1962
Brenda
The Strange Mrs. Crane
Movie • 1948
Nellie Carter
Golden Hoofs
Movie • 1941
Myrt
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Movie • 1939
Life Begins with Love
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Murphy
Dangerous Blondes
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Swanson, Housekeeper (uncredited)
The Go-Getter
Movie • 1937
Cappy Ricks' Secretary
Quiet Please, Murder
Movie • 1943
Cookbook-Seeking Library Patron
Variety Time
Movie • 1948
Aunt Jessie (footage from 'Hired Husband') (archive footage)
Quicksand
Movie • 1950
Landlady
The Devil's Party
Movie • 1938
Maria
Men in Her Diary
Movie • 1945
Mrs. Braun
The Well Groomed Bride
Movie • 1946
Woman in Ticket Line
Kid Dynamite
Movie • 1943
Judge
Block Busters
Movie • 1944
Amelia Rogiet
Something to Shout About
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Starretton
Ghosts on the Loose
Movie • 1943
Hilda
Behind the Mike
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Reilly
Maid to Order
Movie • 1939
Mail-Order Bride
Hit the Ice
Movie • 1943
Wife at Hospital (uncredited)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride
Movie • 1947
Take One False Step
Movie • 1949
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
A Bell for Adano
Movie • 1945
Italian Woman
The Noose Hangs High
Movie • 1948
Husky Woman (uncredited)
His Baiting Beauty
Movie • 1950
Harry's Mother-in-Law
California
Movie • 1947
Emma (uncredited)
When Strangers Marry
Movie • 1944
Landlady (uncredited)
Undercover Maisie
Movie • 1947
Delicatessen Woman (uncredited)
A Man Alone
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Maule (uncredited)
Secret Service Investigator
Movie • 1948
Mrs McGiven
The Dark Corner
Movie • 1946
Client Wife (uncredited)
Hired Husband
Movie • 1947
Aunt Jessie
Marry the Boss's Daughter
Movie • 1941
Elevator Passenger
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Movie • 1949
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Heartaches
Movie • 1947
Charwoman (uncredited)
Sadie McKee
Movie • 1934
Brennan’s Cook’s Assistant (uncredited)
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Movie • 1937
Gang Member Posing as Olympics Matron
Love in a Bungalow
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Kester
Music in Manhattan
Movie • 1944
Mrs. Smith, the Landlady (uncredited)
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Martha Winslow
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Landlady
Angel
TV • 1960
The Adventures of Tugboat Annie
TV • 1958
The Gene Autry Show
TV • 1950
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
Ma Bowie
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV • 1951
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
The Roy Rogers Show
TV • 1951
Meet Mr. McNutley
TV • 1953
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Mother
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Martha Griffin
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Martha Glenhorn
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Busybody
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Indian Woman
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Singing Student
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Woman Checking Out Bud and Lou's Apartment