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