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person_profile-Nora Cecil

Nora Cecil Died at age: 72

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Nora Cecil

Date of Birth:

Sep 24, 1878

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

May 01, 1951

Biography of

Nora Cecil

    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.

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Nora Cecil

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Filmography of

Nora Cecil

Found 111 Movies in total

The Big Parade of Comedy

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1964

Mourning Becomes Electra

Louisa Ames ( Actor )

... 1947

The Sea of Grass

Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1947

Big Town

Miss Lovelace (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

The Missing Lady

Miss Millie ( Actor )

... 1946

Two Sisters from Boston

Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

... 1945

The Thin Man Goes Home

Miss Peavy ( Actor )

... 1944

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

Hospital Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

Hail the Conquering Hero

Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

The Unknown Guest

Martha Williams ( Actor )

... 1943

I Married a Witch

Harriet Wooley (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

Apache Trail

Passenger (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

The Wife Takes a Flyer

Miss Updike ( Actor )

... 1942

Obliging Young Lady

Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

Three Girls About Town

Casket Customer ( Actor )

... 1941

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

Charwoman ( Actor )

... 1941

Little Men

Head of Orphanage ( Actor )

... 1940

The Bank Dick

Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Young People

Righteous Old Lady ( Actor )

... 1940

Lucky Partners

Women's Club President ( Actor )

... 1940

What a Life

Miss Eggleston ( Actor )

... 1939

Some Like It Hot

Mrs. Beckett (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Union Pacific

Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

... 1939

Stagecoach

Boone's Landlady (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mrs. Shackleford ( Actor )

... 1939

Mr. Boggs Steps Out

Widow Peddie ( Actor )

... 1938

International Settlement

English Woman ( Actor )

... 1938

Borrowing Trouble

Dressmaker ( Actor )

... 1937

Nothing Sacred

Schoolteacher (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Blossoms On Broadway

Leader of Committee (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Partners in Crime

Housekeeper ( Actor )

... 1937

She Asked for It

Elderly lady (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Easy Living

Miss Swerf ( Actor )

... 1937

... 1937

... 1937

Champagne Waltz

Train Passenger ( Actor )

... 1937

The Mighty Treve

Old Maid at Dog Show ( Actor )

... 1937

College Holiday

Miss Elkins (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Laughing at Trouble

Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman ( Actor )

... 1936

Under Your Spell

School Teacher (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

The Big Broadcast of 1937

Home Economics Woman ( Actor )

... 1936

... 1936

Little Miss Nobody

Mrs. Robinson ( Actor )

... 1936

Fury

Albert's Mother (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Dancing Pirate

Landlady (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Collegiate

Miss Curtiss ( Actor )

... 1936

Two in the Dark

Mrs. Potter, Landlady ( Actor )

... 1936

Way Down East

Townswoman at Party ( Actor )

... 1935

Vagabond Lady

Miss Perkins (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935

Housekeeper (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Car 99

Granny Adams ( Actor )

... 1935

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

Ship's Matron (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

The Merry Widow

Animal Woman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

Chained

Edith (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

Bachelor Bait

Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

The Old-Fashioned Way

Mrs. Wendelschaffer ( Actor )

... 1934

Upperworld

The Streams' Housekeeper (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

Laughing Boy

Schoolteacher ( Actor )

... 1934

You're Telling Me!

Mrs. Price ( Actor )

... 1934

Search for Beauty

Miss Pettigrew ( Actor )

... 1934

Design for Living

Tom's Secretary (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Going Hollywood

Briarcroft's Teacher ( Actor )

... 1933

Meet the Baron

Professor Winterbottom (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Stage Mother

Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss ( Actor )

... 1933

Doctor Bull

Aunt Emily Banning ( Actor )

... 1933

Hold Your Man

Miss Campbell (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Peg o' My Heart

Smythe (maid) ( Actor )

... 1933

King of the Jungle

Spinster in park (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Fast Workers

Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

Missionary ( Actor )

... 1932

Hot Saturday

Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Pack Up Your Troubles

Welfare Association Officer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Amateur Daddy

Saleslady ( Actor )

... 1932

Young Bride

Landlady (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Arrowsmith

Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1931

The Ruling Voice

Malcom's Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1931

Street Scene

Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker ( Actor )

... 1931

Everything’s Rosie

Hotel Proprietress ( Actor )

... 1931

East Lynne

Charity Bazaar Committee ( Actor )

... 1931

Millie

Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1931

Only Saps Work

Mrs. Partridge ( Actor )

... 1930

Hell's Angels

Helen's Maid (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1930

Little Accident

Dr. Zernecke ( Actor )

... 1930

Seven Days Leave

Amelia Twymley ( Actor )

... 1930

Footlights and Fools

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1929

Seven Footprints to Satan

Old Witch ( Actor )

... 1929

... 1928

The Baby Cyclone

Mrs. Crandall ( Actor )

... 1928

A Trick of Hearts

The Mayor ( Actor )

... 1928

The Devil Dancer

Julia ( Actor )

... 1927

Too Many Crooks

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1927

Sensation Seekers

Mrs. Lodge ( Actor )

... 1927

The Demi-Bride

School Teacher ( Actor )

... 1927

The Fortune Hunter

Betty Carpenter ( Actor )

... 1927

The Silent Rider

Mrs. Randall ( Actor )

... 1927

Midnight Faces

Mrs. Hart ( Actor )

... 1926

Chip of the Flying U

Dr. Cecil Grantham ( Actor )

... 1926

His Majesty, Bunker Bean

Countess Casanova ( Actor )

... 1925

The Deadwood Coach

Matilda Shields - in play ( Actor )

... 1924

Manslaughter

Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1922

Timothy's Quest

Townswoman ( Actor )

... 1922

... 1921

... 1920

American Buds

Emily ( Actor )

... 1918

The Wild Girl

Undetermined Role (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1917

A Royal Romance

Miss McPherson ( Actor )

... 1917

The Poor Little Rich Girl

One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1917

The Social Secretary

Spinster (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1916