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