Minerva Urecal

A stage actress, Urecal made her screen debut in 1934. For the remainder of her career and two hundred plus movies, she played cleaning women, landladies, shopkeepers and the like. She was known as a Marjorie Main type actress and later went on to a career in television playing in such shows as "Tugboat Annie" and "Peter Gunn." Minerva claimed her name was an amalgam of her hometown, Eureka, California.

Known For: Acting

Born: Eureka, California, USA, 1894-09-20

Died: 1966-02-26

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Bombshell	Autograph Seeker (uncredited)	65
2	1933	Meet the Baron	Downstairs Maid (uncredited)	43
3	1934	Sadie McKee	Brennan’s Cook’s Assistant (uncredited)	70
4	1934	Student Tour	Wife	50
5	1935	Man on the Flying Trapeze	Italian Woman in Ambulance (uncredited)	59
6	1935	Here Comes the Band	Italian Wife (uncredited)	50
7	1935	His Night Out	Wife (uncredited)	0
8	1936	Three Godfathers	Parishioner (uncredited)	68
9	1936	Love on a Bet	Miss Jones, MacCreigh's Secretary	70
10	1936	Fury	Fanny (uncredited)	75
11	1937	Her Husband's Secretary	Miss Baldwin	50
12	1937	Oh, Doctor	Death Watch Mary Mackleforth	0
13	1937	Mountain Justice	Ella Crippen	55
14	1937	Charlie Chan at the Olympics	Gang Member Posing as Olympics Matron	67
15	1937	The Go-Getter	Cappy Ricks' Secretary	58
16	1937	Ever Since Eve	Bellden's Receptionist (uncredited)	58
17	1937	Behind the Mike	Mrs. Reilly	0
18	1937	Life Begins with Love	Mrs. Murphy	50
19	1937	She Loved a Fireman	Nurse Purdy	60
20	1937	Exiled to Shanghai	Claire	49
21	1938	Prison Nurse	Sutherland	51
22	1938	Start Cheering	Miss Grimley	70
23	1938	The Lady in the Morgue	Mrs. Horn (uncredited)	60
24	1938	Air Devils	Margaret Price	30
25	1938	The Devil's Party	Maria	55
26	1938	City Streets	Mrs. Grimley (uncredited)	0
27	1938	Frontier Scout	Helen	45
28	1938	Dramatic School	Rose - Boulin's Secretary (uncredited)	62
29	1939	Four Girls in White	Miss Perch - a Nurse	63
30	1939	You Can't Cheat an Honest Man	Screaming Spinster at Circus (uncredited)	67
31	1939	S.O.S Tidal Wave		57
32	1939	Second Fiddle	Miss Bland, the School Principal	50
33	1939	Golden Boy	Grocery Customer	64
34	1939	No Place to Go	Miss Rice	60
35	1939	Maid to Order	Mail-Order Bride	0
36	1939	Dancing Co-Ed	Woman on Radio (voice) (uncredited)	62
37	1939	Sabotage	(uncredited)	70
38	1939	Destry Rides Again	Mrs. DeWitt (uncredited)	72
39	1939	Missing Evidence	Amy, Housewife	0
40	1940	The Sagebrush Family Trails West	Widow Gail	0
41	1940	You Can't Fool Your Wife	Mrs. Doolittle	45
42	1940	Boys of the City	Agnes	54
43	1940	Wildcat Bus	Old Maid (uncredited)	46
44	1940	The Ape	Townswoman	49
45	1940	No, No, Nanette	Woman in Airport	60
46	1940	San Francisco Docks	Landlady	60
47	1941	Arkansas Judge	Miranda Wolfson	0
48	1941	Golden Hoofs	Myrt	70
49	1941	Murder Among Friends	Mrs. O'Heaney (uncredited)	0
50	1941	A Man Betrayed	Librarian (uncredited)	55
51	1941	The Cowboy and the Blonde	Murphy	0
52	1941	Murder by Invitation	Maxine Denham	56
53	1941	Accent on Love	Teresa Lombroso	60
54	1941	Bowery Blitzkrieg	Head of Reform School (uncredited)	61
55	1941	Dressed to Kill	Landlady	64
56	1941	Never Give a Sucker an Even Break	The Cleaning Lady	68
57	1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Nurse (uncredited)	66
58	1941	Marry the Boss's Daughter	Elevator Passenger	0
59	1942	Lady for a Night	Spinster in Audience (uncredited)	53
60	1942	A Tragedy at Midnight	Housekeeper (uncredited)	40
61	1942	My Favorite Blonde	Stone-Faced Woman	64
62	1942	The Corpse Vanishes	Fagah	42
63	1942	In Old California	Mrs. Carson	50
64	1942	Henry and Dizzy	Mrs. Kilmer	0
65	1942	Beyond the Blue Horizon	Wife at Circus (uncredited)	0
66	1942	Sons of the Pioneers	Ellie Bixby	0
67	1942	Sweater Girl	Melinda	40
68	1942	The Living Ghost	Delia Phillips	43
69	1942	The Man in the Trunk	Peggy's Landlady (uncredited)	0
70	1942	The Daring Young Man	Nurse	43
71	1942	Riding Through Nevada	Widow Humbolt	0
72	1942	That Other Woman	Mrs. MacReady	55
73	1943	They Stooge to Conga	Marsha - the Nazi Housekeeper (uncredited)	70
74	1943	The Powers Girl	Maggie (uncredited)	65
75	1943	Shadow of a Doubt	Mrs. Henderson (uncredited)	75
76	1943	Kid Dynamite	Judge	66
77	1943	Something to Shout About	Mrs. Starretton	58
78	1943	Keep 'Em Slugging	Miss Billings	55
79	1943	The Ape Man	Agatha Brewster	42
80	1943	Dixie Dugan	Mrs. Wilson (uncredited)	50
81	1943	Quiet Please, Murder	Cookbook-Seeking Library Patron	66
82	1943	Hit the Ice	Wife at Hospital (uncredited)	59
83	1943	Ghosts on the Loose	Hilda	42
84	1943	So This Is Washington	Mrs. Pomeroy (uncredited)	48
85	1943	Pitchin' in the Kitchen	Miss Clabber (uncredited)	0
86	1943	Dangerous Blondes	Mrs. Swanson, Housekeeper (uncredited)	60
87	1944	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Uncle Pio's Servant (uncredited)	60
88	1944	Bachelor Daze	Abigail O'Rourke	0
89	1944	Mr. Skeffington	Woman in Beauty Shop (uncredited)	67
90	1944	Man from Frisco	Mrs. Allison	60
91	1944	Louisiana Hayride	Ma Crocker	60
92	1944	Block Busters	Amelia Rogiet	0
93	1944	When Strangers Marry	Landlady (uncredited)	61
94	1944	Moonlight and Cactus	Abigail	40
95	1944	The Mark of the Whistler	Woman Sweeping Front Stoop (uncredited)	59
96	1944	One Mysterious Night	Miss Wilkinson (Uncredited)	60
97	1944	Crazy Knights	Mrs. Benson	47
98	1945	The Kid Sister	Mrs. Wiggins	60
99	1945	Salty O'Rourke	Saleslady (uncredited)	52
100	1945	A Medal for Benny	Mrs. Chavez (uncredited)	45
101	1945	Wanderer of the Wasteland	Mama Rafferty	75
102	1945	A Bell for Adano	Italian Woman	56
103	1945	Mr. Muggs Rides Again	Nora Brown	50
104	1945	State Fair	Woman Congratulating Mrs. Metcalf (uncredited)	66
105	1945	Men in Her Diary	Mrs. Braun	0
106	1945	Sensation Hunters	Edna Rogers	47
107	1945	Voice of the Whistler	Georgie's Wife (uncredited)	57
108	1945	The Bells of St. Mary's	Landlady (uncredited)	68
109	1946	Breakfast in Hollywood	Miss Mullins (uncredited)	50
110	1946	Partners in Time	Miss Abernathy (uncredited)	60
111	1946	The Dark Corner	Client Wife (uncredited)	65
112	1946	The Virginian		61
113	1946	Rainbow Over Texas	Mama Lolita	40
114	1946	Without Reservations	Sue (uncredited)	63
115	1946	The Well Groomed Bride	Woman in Ticket Line	40
116	1946	Sioux City Sue	Mrs. Abercrombie - Elite Hotel Manager (uncredited)	0
117	1946	The Trap	Miss Weebles, the Housekeeper	67
118	1946	Wake Up and Dream	Edna Lucash	65
119	1946	Andy Plays Hookey	Andy's Mother-in-Law	0
120	1947	Apache Rose	Felicia	62
121	1947	The Devil Thumbs a Ride		65
122	1947	California	Emma (uncredited)	65
123	1947	Undercover Maisie	Cafe Cook	80
124	1947	Undercover Maisie	Delicatessen Woman (Uncredited)	80
125	1947	Hired Husband	Aunt Jessie	0
126	1947	Heartaches	Charwoman (uncredited)	52
127	1947	Cynthia	Agnes, Jannings' Cook (Uncredited)	59
128	1947	The Lost Moment	Maria	65
129	1947	Bowery Buckaroos	Kate T. Barlow	65
130	1948	Sitting Pretty	Mrs. Maypole (uncredited)	71
131	1948	April Showers	Landlady (uncredited)	60
132	1948	The Noose Hangs High	Husky Woman (uncredited)	68
133	1948	Secret Service Investigator	Mrs McGiven	60
134	1948	Marshal of Amarillo	Mrs. Henry Pettigrew	0
135	1948	Night Has a Thousand Eyes	Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)	67
136	1948	Variety Time	Aunt Jessie (footage from 'Hired Husband') (archive footage)	0
137	1948	Good Sam	Mrs. Nelson	60
138	1948	The Strange Mrs. Crane	Nellie Carter	60
139	1948	Sundown in Santa Fe	Ella Mae Watson	0
140	1948	Family Honeymoon	Mrs. Webb (uncredited)	57
141	1949	The Lovable Cheat	Virginie	30
142	1949	The Doolins of Oklahoma	Train Passenger (uncredited)	68
143	1949	Outcasts of the Trail	Abbie Rysen	0
144	1949	Take One False Step	Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)	55
145	1949	Holiday in Havana	Mama Valdez	50
146	1949	Master Minds	Mrs. Hoskins	58
147	1950	His Baiting Beauty	Harry's Mother-in-Law	60
148	1950	Side Street	Landlady	66
149	1950	Quicksand	Landlady	61
150	1950	The Arizona Cowboy	Cactus Kate Millican	0
151	1950	The Jackpot	Woman Trying On Hats (uncredited)	69
152	1951	Stop That Cab	Lucy's Mother	0
153	1951	The Awful Sleuth	Bert's Mother-In-Law	0
154	1951	Dear Brat	Neighbor (uncredited)	40
155	1951	The Raging Tide	Johnnie Mae Swanson	52
156	1952	Harem Girl	Aniseh	50
157	1952	Oklahoma Annie	Lottie Fling	80
158	1952	Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick	Mrs. Peabody	40
159	1952	Gobs and Gals	Mrs. Pursell	0
160	1952	Lost in Alaska	Mrs. McGillicuddy	60
161	1953	Niagara	Mrs. McGrand	68
162	1953	She's Back on Broadway	Cleaning Lady	57
163	1953	Woman They Almost Lynched	Mrs. Stuart	62
164	1953	Two Gun Marshal	Mama Antonelli	0
165	1955	Marty	Mrs. Rosari (uncredited)	74
166	1955	Double Jeopardy	Mrs. Kreesy	53
167	1955	A Man Alone	Mrs. Maule (uncredited)	56
168	1955	Sudden Danger	Mrs. Kelly	53
169	1962	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation	Brenda	64
170	1964	7 Faces of Dr. Lao	Kate Lindquist	69
171	1965	That Funny Feeling	Woman at Phone Booth	59

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Gene Autry Show		48
2	1951	The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok		45
3	1951	The Roy Rogers Show		64
4	1952	Cavalcade of America		35
5	1953	Meet Mr. McNutley		70
6	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Busybody	78
7	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie	Ma Bowie	37
8	1957	Perry Mason	Landlady	77
9	1957	Perry Mason	Martha Glenhorn	77
10	1958	The Adventures of Tugboat Annie		0
11	1958	Peter Gunn	Mother	65
12	1960	Angel		28
13	1963	Petticoat Junction	Martha Winslow	59
14	1963	Petticoat Junction	Martha Griffin	59