Nora Cecil

Known For: Acting
Born: September 24, 1878
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Died: May 1, 1951

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 …

Filmography

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964 · Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mourning Becomes Electra

1947 · Louisa Ames

The Sea of Grass

1947 · Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)

Big Town

1946 · Miss Lovelace (uncredited)

The Missing Lady

1946 · Miss Millie

Two Sisters from Boston

1946 · Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)

Lady on a Train

1945

The Thin Man Goes Home

1944 · Miss Peavy

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

1944 · Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

Hail the Conquering Hero

1944 · Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

The Unknown Guest

1943 · Martha Williams

I Married a Witch

1942 · Harriet Wooley (uncredited)

Apache Trail

1942 · Passenger (uncredited)

The Wife Takes a Flyer

1942 · Miss Updike

Obliging Young Lady

1942 · Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)

Three Girls About Town

1941 · Casket Customer

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

1941 · Charwoman

The Bank Dick

1940 · Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)

Little Men

1940 · Head of Orphanage

Young People

1940 · Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)

Lucky Partners

1940 · Women's Club President (uncredited)

Those Were the Days!

1940 · Mrs. Moffett

What a Life

1939 · Miss Eggleston

Some Like It Hot

1939 · Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)

Union Pacific

1939 · Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

1939 · Miss Jenkins

Stagecoach

1939 · Boone's Landlady (uncredited)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1939 · Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)

Mr. Boggs Steps Out

1938 · Widow Peddie

International Settlement

1938 · English Woman

Borrowing Trouble

1937 · Dressmaker

Nothing Sacred

1937 · Schoolteacher (uncredited)

Blossoms On Broadway

1937 · Leader of Committee (uncredited)

Partners in Crime

1937 · Housekeeper

She Asked for It

1937 · Elderly lady (uncredited)

Easy Living

1937 · Miss Swerf

Night of Mystery

1937

Three Smart Boys

1937 · Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent

Night Must Fall

1937

Champagne Waltz

1937 · Train Passenger

The Mighty Treve

1937 · Old Maid at Dog Show

College Holiday

1936 · Miss Elkins (uncredited)

Laughing at Trouble

1936 · Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman

Under Your Spell

1936 · School Teacher (uncredited)

The Big Broadcast of 1937

1936 · Home Economics Woman

Let's Make a Million

1936

Girl of the Ozarks

1936 · Miss Trent

Little Miss Nobody

1936 · Mrs. Robinson

Fury

1936 · Albert's Mother (uncredited)

Dancing Pirate

1936 · Landlady (uncredited)

Collegiate

1936 · Miss Curtiss

Two in the Dark

1936 · Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)

Way Down East

1935 · Townswoman at Party

Slightly Static

1935 · Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)

Vagabond Lady

1935 · Miss Perkins (uncredited)

Gold Diggers of 1935

1935 · Housekeeper (uncredited)

Car 99

1935 · Granny Adams

Memories and Melodies

1935 · Customer (uncredited)

Biography of a Bachelor Girl

1935 · Ship's Matron (uncredited)

The Merry Widow

1934 · Animal Woman (uncredited)

Opened by Mistake

Opened by Mistake

1934 · Head Nurse

The Spectacle Maker

1934 · Duchess

Chained

1934 · Edith (uncredited)

One-Horse Farmers

One-Horse Farmers

1934 · Subway Passenger (uncredited)

Bachelor Bait

1934 · Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)

The Old-Fashioned Way

1934 · Mrs. Wendelschaffer

Upperworld

1934 · Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)

Laughing Boy

1934 · Schoolteacher

You're Telling Me!

1934 · Mrs. Price

Once to Every Woman

1934 · Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)

Mixed Nuts

1934 · Mrs. Twitchett

Search for Beauty

1934 · Miss Pettigrew

Design for Living

1933 · Tom's Secretary (uncredited)

Going Hollywood

1933 · Briarcroft's Teacher

Meet the Baron

1933 · Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)

Stage Mother

1933 · Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)

Doctor Bull

1933 · Aunt Emily Banning

Hold Your Man

1933 · Miss Campbell (uncredited)

Peg o' My Heart

1933 · Smythe (maid)

Nature in the Wrong

1933 · Muriel's mother

King of the Jungle

1933 · Spinster in park (uncredited)

Fast Workers

1933 · Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)

Wreckety Wrecks

Wreckety Wrecks

1933 · Miss Winterbottom

Asleep in the Feet

1933 · Female Police Officer

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

1932 · Missionary

Mr. Bride

1932 · Mrs. Cecil

Hot Saturday

1932 · Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)

The Millionaire Cat

The Millionaire Cat

1932 · Aunt Mathilda

Girl Grief

1932 · Miss Tuttle, Principal

Pack Up Your Troubles

1932 · Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)

Amateur Daddy

1932 · Saleslady

Young Bride

1932 · Landlady (uncredited)

Arrowsmith

1931 · Nurse (uncredited)

The Ruling Voice

1931 · Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)

Street Scene

1931 · Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker

Everything’s Rosie

1931 · Hotel Proprietress

East Lynne

1931 · Charity Bazaar Committee

Millie

1931 · Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)

Only Saps Work

1930 · Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)

Hell's Angels

1930 · Helen's Maid (uncredited)

Little Accident

1930 · Dr. Zernecke

The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

1930

Seven Days Leave

1930 · Amelia Twymley

Footlights and Fools

1929 · (uncredited)

Seven Footprints to Satan

1929 · Old Witch

The Cavalier

1928 · Lucia's Aunt

Driftwood

1928 · Mrs. Prouty

The Baby Cyclone

1928 · Mrs. Crandall

A Trick of Hearts

1928 · The Mayor

The Devil Dancer

1927 · Julia

Born to Battle

1927 · Ma Cowan

Too Many Crooks

1927 · (uncredited)

Girls

1927 · Matron Helen Hunt

Sensation Seekers

1927 · Mrs. Lodge

The Demi-Bride

1927 · School Teacher

The Fortune Hunter

1927 · Betty Carpenter

The Silent Rider

1927 · Mrs. Randall

Midnight Faces

1926 · Mrs. Hart

Chip of the Flying U

1926 · Dr. Cecil Grantham

Three Weeks in Paris

1925

His Majesty, Bunker Bean

1925 · Countess Casanova

The Deadwood Coach

1924 · Matilda Shields - in play

Darwin Was Right

1924 · Aunt Priscilla

The Town That Forgot God

1922 · (uncredited)

Manslaughter

1922 · Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)

Timothy's Quest

1922 · Townswoman

Footfalls

1921

The Daughter Pays

1920

Red Foam

1920

Woman, Woman!

1919 · Mrs. Lindsay

Miss Crusoe

1919 · Miss Meeker (uncredited)

An Amateur Widow

An Amateur Widow

1919

Love Net

1918 · Miss Prudence Tilly

The Zero Hour

1918 · Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)

Appearance of Evil

1918 · Miss Spurgeon

By Hook or Crook

1918 · Aunt Marie

American Buds

1918 · Emily

Prunella

1918

The Wild Girl

1917 · Undetermined Role (uncredited)

A Royal Romance

1917 · Miss McPherson

The Poor Little Rich Girl

1917 · One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)

Tillie Wakes Up

Tillie Wakes Up

1917 · Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken

The Social Secretary

1916 · Spinster (uncredited)

A Model Husband

A Model Husband

1916 · Mrs Gossip

The Arrival of Perpetua

The Arrival of Perpetua

1915 · Abigail Majendrie

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