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