Nora Cecil
Known for Acting · 145 credits
- Born
- 1878-09-24
- Died
- 1951-05-01
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- 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.
Known For
Movies (145)
Stagecoach
1939
as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
International Settlement
1938
as English Woman
Girl Grief
1932
as Miss Tuttle, Principal
Fury
1936
as Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Midnight Faces
1926
as Mrs. Hart
Young People
1940
as Righteous Old Lady
Bachelor Bait
1934
as Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
Hell's Angels
1930
as Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Going Hollywood
1933
as Briarcroft's Teacher
Stage Mother
1933
as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
Apache Trail
1942
as Passenger (uncredited)
Vagabond Lady
1935
as Miss Perkins (uncredited)
The Cavalier
1928
as Lucia's Aunt
Three Girls About Town
1941
as Casket Customer
East Lynne
1931
as Charity Bazaar Committee
Manslaughter
1922
as Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
as Louisa Ames
Driftwood
1928
as Mrs. Prouty
Lucky Partners
1940
as Women's Club President (uncredited)
Sensation Seekers
1927
as Mrs. Lodge
Young Bride
1932
as Landlady (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
1942
as Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
Mr. Bride
1932
as Mrs. Cecil
Wreckety Wrecks
1933
as Miss Winterbottom
Little Accident
1930
as Dr. Zernecke
Nothing Sacred
1937
as Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Borrowing Trouble
1937
as Dressmaker
Easy Living
1937
as Miss Swerf
The Ruling Voice
1931
as Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939
as Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
Chained
1934
as Edith (uncredited)
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
as Miss Peavy
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
as Missionary
Millie
1931
as Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
The Sea of Grass
1947
as Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
Dancing Pirate
1936
as Landlady (uncredited)
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
The Devil Dancer
1927
as Julia
Laughing at Trouble
1936
as Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
The Mighty Treve
1937
as Old Maid at Dog Show
Hot Saturday
1932
as Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
as Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
Opened by Mistake
1934
as Head Nurse
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
Doctor Bull
1933
as Aunt Emily Banning
Way Down East
1935
as Townswoman at Party
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
as Miss Jenkins
Union Pacific
1939
as Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Design for Living
1933
as Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
Only Saps Work
1930
as Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
The Merry Widow
1934
as Animal Woman (uncredited)
American Buds
1918
as Emily
The Missing Lady
1946
as Miss Millie
Blossoms On Broadway
1937
as Leader of Committee (uncredited)
Once to Every Woman
1934
as Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
Arrowsmith
1931
as Nurse (uncredited)
The Unknown Guest
1943
as Martha Williams
Obliging Young Lady
1942
as Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
Little Men
1940
as Head of Orphanage
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
as Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Street Scene
1931
as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
as Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
Two in the Dark
1936
as Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
The Bank Dick
1940
as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
Seven Days Leave
1930
as Amelia Twymley
Night of Mystery
1937
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
as Home Economics Woman
Chip of the Flying U
1926
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
Upperworld
1934
as Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
The Baby Cyclone
1928
as Mrs. Crandall
Footfalls
1921
Lady on a Train
1945
Footlights and Fools
1929
as (uncredited)
Champagne Waltz
1937
as Train Passenger
The Fortune Hunter
1927
as Betty Carpenter
Collegiate
1936
as Miss Curtiss
Night Must Fall
1937
Big Town
1946
as Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
Some Like It Hot
1939
as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
King of the Jungle
1933
as Spinster in park (uncredited)
Mixed Nuts
1934
as Mrs. Twitchett
Car 99
1935
as Granny Adams
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915
as Abigail Majendrie
Three Smart Boys
1937
as Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
The Demi-Bride
1927
as School Teacher
Laughing Boy
1934
as Schoolteacher
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
as Miss Updike
College Holiday
1936
as Miss Elkins (uncredited)
Woman, Woman!
1919
as Mrs. Lindsay
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935
as Ship's Matron (uncredited)
The Poor Little Rich Girl
1917
as One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
Fast Workers
1933
as Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
Everything’s Rosie
1931
as Hotel Proprietress
A Model Husband
1916
as Mrs Gossip
Meet the Baron
1933
as Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
Peg o' My Heart
1933
as Smythe (maid)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
as Charwoman
Slightly Static
1935
as Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
The Silent Rider
1927
as Mrs. Randall
What a Life
1939
as Miss Eggleston
Search for Beauty
1934
as Miss Pettigrew
Those Were the Days!
1940
as Mrs. Moffett
Hold Your Man
1933
as Miss Campbell (uncredited)
A Trick of Hearts
1928
as The Mayor
Seven Footprints to Satan
1929
as Old Witch
The Wild Girl
1917
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930
Love Net
1918
as Miss Prudence Tilly
An Amateur Widow
1919
The Spectacle Maker
1934
as Duchess
Memories and Melodies
1935
as Customer (uncredited)
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
as Mrs. Wendelschaffer
She Asked for It
1937
as Elderly lady (uncredited)
Little Miss Nobody
1936
as Mrs. Robinson
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
1925
as Countess Casanova
You're Telling Me!
1934
as Mrs. Price
Darwin Was Right
1924
as Aunt Priscilla
Girl of the Ozarks
1936
as Miss Trent
The Daughter Pays
1920
About 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 sho… With 145 credits spanning from 1915 to 1964, Nora Cecil has appeared in 145 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Stagecoach (1939) — as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
- International Settlement (1938) — as English Woman
- Girl Grief (1932) — as Miss Tuttle, Principal
- Fury (1936) — as Albert's Mother (uncredited)
- Midnight Faces (1926) — as Mrs. Hart
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