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.

Known For: Acting

Born: London, England, UK, 1878-09-24

Died: 1951-05-01

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1915	The Arrival of Perpetua	Abigail Majendrie	0
2	1916	A Model Husband	Mrs Gossip	50
3	1916	The Social Secretary	Spinster (uncredited)	56
4	1917	Tillie Wakes Up	Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken	60
5	1917	The Poor Little Rich Girl	One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)	57
6	1917	A Royal Romance	Miss McPherson	0
7	1917	The Wild Girl	Undetermined Role (uncredited)	0
8	1918	Prunella		0
9	1918	American Buds	Emily	0
10	1918	By Hook or Crook	Aunt Marie	0
11	1918	Love Net	Miss Prudence Tilly	0
12	1919	An Amateur Widow		0
13	1919	Woman, Woman!	Mrs. Lindsay	0
14	1920	Red Foam		0
15	1920	The Daughter Pays		0
16	1921	Footfalls		0
17	1922	Timothy's Quest	Townswoman	64
18	1922	Manslaughter	Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)	54
19	1924	The Deadwood Coach	Matilda Shields - in play	0
20	1925	His Majesty, Bunker Bean	Countess Casanova	0
21	1926	Chip of the Flying U	Dr. Cecil Grantham	0
22	1926	Midnight Faces	Mrs. Hart	45
23	1927	The Silent Rider	Mrs. Randall	0
24	1927	The Fortune Hunter	Betty Carpenter	0
25	1927	The Demi-Bride	School Teacher	0
26	1927	Sensation Seekers	Mrs. Lodge	64
27	1927	Girls	Matron Helen Hunt	45
28	1927	Too Many Crooks	(uncredited)	0
29	1927	Born to Battle	Ma Cowan	0
30	1927	The Devil Dancer	Julia	50
31	1928	A Trick of Hearts	The Mayor	0
32	1928	The Baby Cyclone	Mrs. Crandall	0
33	1928	Driftwood	Mrs. Prouty	0
34	1928	The Cavalier	Lucia's Aunt	0
35	1929	Seven Footprints to Satan	Old Witch	60
36	1929	Footlights and Fools	(uncredited)	0
37	1930	Seven Days Leave	Amelia Twymley	70
38	1930	The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu		50
39	1930	Little Accident	Dr. Zernecke	0
40	1930	Hell's Angels	Helen's Maid (uncredited)	65
41	1930	Only Saps Work	Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)	55
42	1931	Millie	Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)	54
43	1931	East Lynne	Charity Bazaar Committee	63
44	1931	Everything’s Rosie	Hotel Proprietress	40
45	1931	Street Scene	Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker	68
46	1931	The Ruling Voice	Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)	60
47	1931	Arrowsmith	Nurse (uncredited)	64
48	1932	Young Bride	Landlady (uncredited)	37
49	1932	Amateur Daddy	Saleslady	0
50	1932	Pack Up Your Troubles	Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)	67
51	1932	Girl Grief	Miss Tuttle, Principal	50
52	1932	The Millionaire Cat	Aunt Mathilda	0
53	1932	Hot Saturday	Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)	65
54	1932	Mr. Bride	Mrs. Cecil	55
55	1932	The Bitter Tea of General Yen	Missionary	62
56	1933	Asleep in the Feet	Female Police Officer	10
57	1933	Wreckety Wrecks	Miss Winterbottom	0
58	1933	King of the Jungle	Spinster in park (uncredited)	50
59	1933	Fast Workers	Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)	53
60	1933	Nature in the Wrong	Muriel's mother	0
61	1933	Peg o' My Heart	Smythe (maid)	52
62	1933	Hold Your Man	Miss Campbell (uncredited)	61
63	1933	Doctor Bull	Aunt Emily Banning	65
64	1933	Stage Mother	Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)	50
65	1933	Meet the Baron	Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)	43
66	1933	Going Hollywood	Briarcroft's Teacher	55
67	1933	Design for Living	Tom's Secretary (uncredited)	71
68	1934	Search for Beauty	Miss Pettigrew	59
69	1934	Mixed Nuts	Mrs. Twitchett	62
70	1934	Once to Every Woman	Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)	60
71	1934	You're Telling Me!	Mrs. Price	67
72	1934	Laughing Boy	Schoolteacher	36
73	1934	Upperworld	Housekeeper (uncredited)	63
74	1934	The Old-Fashioned Way	Mrs. Wendelschaffer	71
75	1934	Bachelor Bait	Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)	57
76	1934	One-Horse Farmers	Subway Passenger (uncredited)	0
77	1934	Chained	Edith (uncredited)	68
78	1934	The Spectacle Maker	Duchess	56
79	1934	Opened by Mistake	Head Nurse	0
80	1934	The Merry Widow	Animal Woman (uncredited)	68
81	1935	Biography of a Bachelor Girl	Ship's Matron (uncredited)	63
82	1935	Memories and Melodies	Customer (uncredited)	0
83	1935	Car 99	Granny Adams	50
84	1935	Gold Diggers of 1935	Housekeeper (uncredited)	64
85	1935	Vagabond Lady	Miss Perkins (uncredited)	72
86	1935	Slightly Static	Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)	0
87	1935	Way Down East	Townswoman at Party	30
88	1936	Two in the Dark	Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)	59
89	1936	Collegiate	Miss Curtiss	0
90	1936	Dancing Pirate	Landlady (uncredited)	54
91	1936	Little Miss Nobody	Mrs. Robinson	60
92	1936	Fury	Albert's Mother (uncredited)	74
93	1936	Girl of the Ozarks	Miss Trent	60
94	1936	Let's Make a Million		0
95	1936	The Big Broadcast of 1937	Home Economics Woman	54
96	1936	Under Your Spell	School Teacher (uncredited)	70
97	1936	Laughing at Trouble	Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman	60
98	1936	College Holiday	Miss Elkins (uncredited)	52
99	1937	The Mighty Treve	Old Maid at Dog Show	60
100	1937	Champagne Waltz	Train Passenger	0
101	1937	Night Must Fall		70
102	1937	Three Smart Boys	Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent	65
103	1937	Night of Mystery		0
104	1937	Easy Living	Miss Swerf	70
105	1937	She Asked for It	Elderly lady (uncredited)	60
106	1937	Partners in Crime	Housekeeper	0
107	1937	Blossoms On Broadway	Leader of Committee (uncredited)	40
108	1937	Nothing Sacred	Schoolteacher (uncredited)	62
109	1937	Borrowing Trouble	Dressmaker	60
110	1938	International Settlement	English Woman	50
111	1938	Mr. Boggs Steps Out	Widow Peddie	55
112	1939	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)	65
113	1939	Stagecoach	Boone's Landlady (uncredited)	76
114	1939	The Story of Alexander Graham Bell	Miss Jenkins	60
115	1939	Union Pacific	Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)	65
116	1939	Some Like It Hot	Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)	72
117	1939	What a Life	Miss Eggleston	0
118	1940	Those Were the Days!	Mrs. Moffett	0
119	1940	Lucky Partners	Women's Club President (uncredited)	60
120	1940	Young People	Righteous Old Lady	46
121	1940	The Bank Dick	Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)	65
122	1940	Little Men	Head of Orphanage	56
123	1941	A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob	Charwoman	47
124	1941	Three Girls About Town	Casket Customer	53
125	1942	Obliging Young Lady	Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)	50
126	1942	The Wife Takes a Flyer	Miss Updike	45
127	1942	Apache Trail	Passenger (uncredited)	64
128	1942	I Married a Witch	Harriet Wooley (uncredited)	68
129	1943	The Unknown Guest	Martha Williams	0
130	1944	Hail the Conquering Hero	Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)	70
131	1944	The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek	Hospital Nurse (uncredited)	68
132	1944	The Thin Man Goes Home	Miss Peavy	71
133	1945	Lady on a Train		66
134	1946	Two Sisters from Boston	Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)	60
135	1946	The Missing Lady	Miss Millie	48
136	1946	Big Town	Miss Lovelace (uncredited)	48
137	1947	The Sea of Grass	Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)	63
138	1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	Louisa Ames	63
139	1964	The Big Parade of Comedy	Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)	63

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