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Nora Cecil
Actor
Born September 24, 1878Died May 1, 1951 (72 years)
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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.
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.
Filmography
| 1986 | Laurel & Hardy (TV Series) · as Welfare Officer (1986) |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy · as Actress In 'hollywood Party' (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Mourning Becomes Electra · as Louisa Ames |
| 1947 | The Sea of Grass · as Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Big Town · as Miss Lovelace (uncredited) |
| 1946 | No Leave, No Love · as Indignant Onlooker At Hotel Desk |
| 1946 | The Missing Lady · as Miss Millie |
| 1946 | Two Sisters from Boston · as Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited) |
| 1946 | The Kid from Brooklyn · as Woman In Window |
| 1945 | |
| 1945 | Molly and Me · as Clerk At Domestic Service Agency |
| 1944 | The Thin Man Goes Home · as Miss Peavy |
| 1944 | Together Again · as Woman At Recital |
| 1944 | Hail the Conquering Hero · as Train Ticket Clerk |
| 1943 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek · as Hospital Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1943 | The Unknown Guest · as Martha Williams |
| 1943 | Two Weeks to Live · as Grandma Masters |
| 1943 | |
| 1942 | I Married a Witch · as Harriet Wooley (uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Daring Young Man · as Matron |
| 1942 | Tish · as Spinster |
| 1942 | Apache Trail · as Passenger (uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Wife Takes a Flyer · as Miss Updike |
| 1942 | Call Out the Marines · as Elderly Lady With Glasses |
| 1942 | Obliging Young Lady · as Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Unexpected Uncle · as Muriel |
| 1941 | Three Girls About Town · as Casket Customer |
| 1941 | It Started with Eve · as Mrs. Fields - Hotel Guest |
| 1941 | A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob · as Charwoman |
| 1940 | The Bank Dick · as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Little Men · as Head Of Orphanage |
| 1940 | Hit Parade of 1941 · as Trader |
| 1940 | Young People · as Righteous Old Lady |
| 1940 | Lucky Partners · as Women's Club President (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Those Were the Days! · as Mrs. Moffett |
| 1940 | Anne of Windy Poplars · as Miss Blecker |
| 1940 | Queen of the Mob · as Mission Worker |
| 1940 | The Captain Is a Lady · as Lady Buying Groceries |
| 1939 | What a Life · as Miss Eggleston |
| 1939 | Some Like It Hot · as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Union Pacific · as Snoring Woman On Train (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell · as Miss Jenkins |
| 1939 | Stagecoach · as Boone's Landlady (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · as Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited) |
| 1939 | St. Louis Blues · as Storekeeper |
| 1938 | King of Alcatraz · as Nora Kane |
| 1938 | Mr. Boggs Steps Out · as Widow Peddie |
| 1938 | International Settlement · as English Woman |
| 1937 | Nothing Sacred · as Schoolteacher (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Easy Living · as Miss Swerf |
| 1937 | |
| 1937 | Champagne Waltz · as Train Passenger |
| 1936 | Little Miss Nobody · as Mrs. Robinson |
| 1936 | College Holiday · as Miss Elkins (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Career Woman · as Witness--New York |
| 1936 | |
| 1936 | Under Your Spell · as School Teacher (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Big Broadcast of 1937 · as Home Economics Woman |
| 1936 | Fury · as Albert's Mother (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Dancing Pirate · as Landlady (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Two in the Dark · as Mrs. Potter, Landlady |
| 1935 | Way Down East · as Townswoman At Party |
| 1935 | Grand Exit · as Miss Appleby, Third Secretary |
| 1935 | Vagabond Lady · as Miss Perkins - Spear Office Worker |
| 1935 | Gold Diggers of 1935 · as Housekeeper (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Car 99 · as Granny Adams |
| 1935 | Biography of a Bachelor Girl · as Ship's Matron (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Merry Widow · as Animal Woman (uncredited) |
| 1934 | 6 Day Bike Rider · as Choir Leader |
| 1934 | Chained · as Edith (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Bachelor Bait · as Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Old Fashioned Way · as Mrs. Wendelschaffer |
| 1934 | Hollywood Party · as Scientific Pedant |
| 1934 | You're Telling Me! · as Mrs. Price |
| 1934 | Upperworld · as Housekeeper (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Laughing Boy · as Schoolteacher |
| 1934 | Glamour · as Nurse |
| 1934 | Apples to You! · as Opera Patron In Box With Announcer |
| 1934 | Once to Every Woman · as Elizabeth Baxter - Jane's Sister |
| 1934 | Search for Beauty · as Miss Pettigrew |
| 1933 | Design for Living · as Tom's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Going Hollywood · as Briarcroft's Teacher |
| 1933 | Meet the Baron · as Professor Winterbottom (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Stage Mother · as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss |
| 1933 | Doctor Bull · as Aunt Emily Banning |
| 1933 | Hold Your Man · as Miss Campbell |
| 1933 | Melody Cruise · as First Gossip |
| 1933 | Peg o' My Heart · as Smythe (maid) |
| 1933 | The Little Giant · as Ahern's Maid |
| 1933 | The White Sister · as Preaching Nun At Meal |
| 1933 | Fast Workers · as Tall Window-Shopper (uncredited) |
| 1933 | King of the Jungle · as Spinster In Park (uncredited) |
| 1932 | The Bitter Tea of General Yen · as Missionary |
| 1932 | That's My Boy · as Concerned Mother |
| 1932 | Hot Saturday · as Gossip On Telephone (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Pack Up Your Troubles · as Welfare Association Officer (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Young Bride · as Landlady (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Forbidden · as Chambermaid On Phone |
| 1931 | Arrowsmith · as Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Ruling Voice · as Malcom's Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Sin of Madelon Claudet · as Nasty Prison Nun |
| 1931 | False Roomers · as Mrs. Simpson |
| 1931 | Caught Plastered · as Miss Loring |
| 1931 | Street Scene · as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker |
| 1931 | Everything's Rosie · as Hotel Proprietress |
| 1931 | East Lynne · as Charity Bazaar Committee |
| 1931 | |
| 1930 | Only Saps Work · as Mrs. Partridge |
| 1930 | Outward Bound · as Third Gossip |
| 1930 | Hell's Angels · as Helen's Maid (uncredited) |
| 1930 | |
| 1930 | Seven Days Leave · as Amelia Twymley |
| 1929 | Footlights and Fools · as (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Seven Footprints to Satan · as Old Witch |
| 1928 | The Big City · as Landlady |
| 1927 | The Devil Dancer · as Julia |
| 1927 | Sensation Seekers · as Mrs. Lodge |
| 1926 | The Scarlet Letter · as Townswoman |
| 1926 | Midnight Faces · as Mrs. Hart |
| 1925 | Tumbleweeds · as Pioneer Mother |
| 1925 | Lightnin' · as Passerby In Buggy |
| 1922 | Manslaughter · as Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited) |
| 1922 | Timothy's Quest · as Townswoman |
| 1919 | Behind the Door · as Townswoman |
| 1917 | The Poor Little Rich Girl · as One Of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited) |
| 1917 | Tillie Wakes Up · as Gossip In Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken |
| 1916 | The Social Secretary · as Spinster (uncredited) |
| 1915 | Alias Jimmy Valentine · as Nurse |