Cast
Nora Cecil
Acting
Cast
Nora Cecil
Known for
Acting
Born
1878-09-24
From
London, England, UK
Died
1951-05-01
Also known as Norah Cecile, Nora Cecile
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.
★7.6
MOVIE1939
Stagecoach
as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Bachelor Bait
as Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
MOVIE1919
Woman, Woman!
as Mrs. Lindsay
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Girl Grief
as Miss Tuttle, Principal
★6.1
MOVIE1947
The Sea of Grass
as Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1942
I Married a Witch
as Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
★7.1
MOVIE1934
Mixed Nuts
as Mrs. Twitchett
★9.0
MOVIE1919
Miss Crusoe
as Miss Meeker (uncredited)
★7.1
MOVIE1933
Design for Living
as Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1930
Hell's Angels
as Helen's Maid (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1943
The Unknown Guest
as Martha Williams
★6.3
MOVIE1934
You're Telling Me!
as Mrs. Price
★6.7
MOVIE1939
Union Pacific
as Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE1940
Young People
as Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1921
Footfalls
★6.8
MOVIE1934
The Merry Widow
as Animal Woman (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1933
Wreckety Wrecks
as Miss Winterbottom
MOVIE1918
Prunella
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Nothing Sacred
as Schoolteacher (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Miss Jenkins
★6.5
MOVIE1916
A Model Husband
as Mrs Gossip
★6.7
MOVIE1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
★7.1
MOVIE1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
★7.1
MOVIE1944
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Miss Peavy
★6.3
MOVIE1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as Missionary
MOVIE1915
The Arrival of Perpetua
as Abigail Majendrie
★10.0
MOVIE1937
Night of Mystery
★7.0
MOVIE1929
Footlights and Fools
as (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1925
Three Weeks in Paris
★6.2
MOVIE1936
The Big Broadcast of 1937
as Home Economics Woman
★6.8
MOVIE1931
Street Scene
as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
★7.0
MOVIE1934
Chained
as Edith (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Collegiate
as Miss Curtiss
★7.5
MOVIE1936
Little Miss Nobody
as Mrs. Robinson
★7.5
MOVIE1936
Fury
as Albert's Mother (uncredited)
★4.8
MOVIE1946
The Missing Lady
as Miss Millie
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Obliging Young Lady
as Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1940
Little Men
as Head of Orphanage
★6.3
MOVIE1946
Two Sisters from Boston
as Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1937
Easy Living
as Miss Swerf
★6.7
MOVIE1945
Lady on a Train
★6.5
MOVIE1940
The Bank Dick
as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1947
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Louisa Ames
★8.0
MOVIE1934
Opened by Mistake
as Head Nurse
★8.0
MOVIE1927
The Demi-Bride
as School Teacher
★6.8
MOVIE1932
Pack Up Your Troubles
as Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1938
International Settlement
as English Woman
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Night Must Fall
★5.5
MOVIE1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Miss Updike
★6.9
MOVIE1944
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
MOVIE1918
The Zero Hour
as Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Apache Trail
as Passenger (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1916
The Social Secretary
as Spinster (uncredited)
MOVIE1919
An Amateur Widow
★10.0
MOVIE1932
Amateur Daddy
as Saleslady
★6.6
MOVIE1931
Arrowsmith
as Nurse (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1933
Hold Your Man
as Miss Campbell (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1936
Two in the Dark
as Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
★4.3
MOVIE1935
Way Down East
as Townswoman at Party
★5.0
MOVIE1933
Fast Workers
as Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1927
The Devil Dancer
as Julia
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Three Girls About Town
as Casket Customer
★6.6
MOVIE1932
Hot Saturday
as Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1934
The Old-Fashioned Way
as Mrs. Wendelschaffer
★6.5
MOVIE1931
East Lynne
as Charity Bazaar Committee
★6.7
MOVIE1933
Doctor Bull
as Aunt Emily Banning
★9.0
MOVIE1918
By Hook or Crook
as Aunt Marie
★5.5
MOVIE1933
Going Hollywood
as Briarcroft's Teacher
★5.7
MOVIE1936
Dancing Pirate
as Landlady (uncredited)
★7.6
MOVIE1939
Some Like It Hot
as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
MOVIE1918
Appearance of Evil
as Miss Spurgeon
★5.5
MOVIE1934
Search for Beauty
as Miss Pettigrew
★5.7
MOVIE1917
The Poor Little Rich Girl
as One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1922
Manslaughter
as Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
★4.8
MOVIE1927
Girls
as Matron Helen Hunt
★7.0
MOVIE1924
Darwin Was Right
as Aunt Priscilla
★5.0
MOVIE1933
Peg o' My Heart
as Smythe (maid)
★5.5
MOVIE1941
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Charwoman
★7.0
MOVIE1918
Love Net
as Miss Prudence Tilly
★5.3
MOVIE1930
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
★9.0
MOVIE1930
Little Accident
as Dr. Zernecke
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Partners in Crime
as Housekeeper
★5.3
MOVIE1931
Millie
as Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1934
Once to Every Woman
as Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1937
Champagne Waltz
as Train Passenger
★6.2
MOVIE1929
Seven Footprints to Satan
as Old Witch
★6.1
MOVIE1940
Lucky Partners
as Women's Club President (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1917
Tillie Wakes Up
as Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
★7.3
MOVIE1936
Under Your Spell
as School Teacher (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1935
Vagabond Lady
as Miss Perkins (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1936
Girl of the Ozarks
as Miss Trent
★8.0
MOVIE1940
Those Were the Days!
as Mrs. Moffett
★5.3
MOVIE1933
Meet the Baron
as Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1922
The Town That Forgot God
as (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1933
King of the Jungle
as Spinster in park (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1932
The Millionaire Cat
as Aunt Mathilda
★10.0
MOVIE1917
The Wild Girl
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Laughing at Trouble
as Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
★7.5
MOVIE1935
Car 99
as Granny Adams
★4.2
MOVIE1932
Young Bride
as Landlady (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1930
Seven Days Leave
as Amelia Twymley
★10.0
MOVIE1939
What a Life
as Miss Eggleston
★6.8
MOVIE1935
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
as Ship's Matron (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1937
The Mighty Treve
as Old Maid at Dog Show
★6.3
MOVIE1933
Stage Mother
as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1927
Sensation Seekers
as Mrs. Lodge
★4.8
MOVIE1937
Blossoms On Broadway
as Leader of Committee (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1934
Upperworld
as Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1937
She Asked for It
as Elderly lady (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1936
College Holiday
as Miss Elkins (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1930
Only Saps Work
as Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1946
Big Town
as Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1937
Three Smart Boys
as Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
★7.5
MOVIE1936
Let's Make a Million
★7.0
MOVIE1920
The Daughter Pays
★5.3
MOVIE1938
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
as Widow Peddie
★7.0
MOVIE1927
Born to Battle
as Ma Cowan
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Borrowing Trouble
as Dressmaker
★10.0
MOVIE1927
Too Many Crooks
as (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1932
Mr. Bride
as Mrs. Cecil
★3.7
MOVIE1934
Laughing Boy
as Schoolteacher
★7.0
MOVIE1928
The Cavalier
as Lucia's Aunt
★4.8
MOVIE1933
Asleep in the Feet
as Female Police Officer
★9.0
MOVIE1925
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
as Countess Casanova
★6.0
MOVIE1931
Everything’s Rosie
as Hotel Proprietress
★6.2
MOVIE1931
The Ruling Voice
as Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1934
The Spectacle Maker
as Duchess
★8.0
MOVIE1927
The Fortune Hunter
as Betty Carpenter
★8.0
MOVIE1928
The Baby Cyclone
as Mrs. Crandall
MOVIE1917
A Royal Romance
as Miss McPherson
★9.0
MOVIE1926
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
★8.0
MOVIE1920
Red Foam
★6.5
MOVIE1933
Nature in the Wrong
as Muriel's mother
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Memories and Melodies
as Customer (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1928
Driftwood
as Mrs. Prouty
★8.0
MOVIE1934
One-Horse Farmers
as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1926
Midnight Faces
as Mrs. Hart
★6.9
MOVIE1922
Timothy's Quest
as Townswoman
★8.0
MOVIE1928
A Trick of Hearts
as The Mayor
MOVIE1918
American Buds
as Emily
★9.0
MOVIE1935
Slightly Static
as Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1927
The Silent Rider
as Mrs. Randall
★9.0
MOVIE1924
The Deadwood Coach
as Matilda Shields - in play