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