Nora Cecil
female

Born on September 24, 1878 (146 years old)
Passed Away on May 01, 1951
From London, England, UK
Known for Acting
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. Her final acting performance was in a featured role in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell.
Cast Credits
- 1964
- 1947
- 1946
- 1945
- 1944
- 1943
- 1942
- 1941
- 1940
- 1939
- 1938
- 1937
Night of Mystery
1937
Three Smart Boys
as
Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
1937
Night Must Fall
1937
Partners in Crime
as
Housekeeper
1937
She Asked for It
as
Elderly lady (uncredited)
1937
Easy Living
as
Miss Swerf
1937
Champagne Waltz
as
Train Passenger
1937
Nothing Sacred
as
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
1937
Borrowing Trouble
as
Dressmaker
1937
The Mighty Treve
as
Old Maid at Dog Show
1937
Blossoms On Broadway
as
Leader of Committee (uncredited)
1937
- 1936
Under Your Spell
as
School Teacher (uncredited)
1936
College Holiday
as
Miss Elkins (uncredited)
1936
Little Miss Nobody
as
Mrs. Robinson
1936
Fury
as
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
1936
Two in the Dark
as
Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
1936
The Big Broadcast of 1937
as
Home Economics Woman
1936
Dancing Pirate
as
Landlady (uncredited)
1936
Let's Make a Million
1936
Collegiate
as
Miss Curtiss
1936
Laughing at Trouble
as
Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
1936
Girl of the Ozarks
as
Miss Trent
1936
- 1935
Car 99
as
Granny Adams
1935
Slightly Static
as
Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
1935
Way Down East
as
Townswoman at Party
1935
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
as
Ship's Matron (uncredited)
1935
Memories and Melodies
as
Customer (uncredited)
1935
Gold Diggers of 1935
as
Housekeeper (uncredited)
1935
Vagabond Lady
as
Miss Perkins (uncredited)
1935
- 1934
Mixed Nuts
as
Mrs. Twitchett
1934
Laughing Boy
as
Schoolteacher
1934
Search for Beauty
as
Miss Pettigrew
1934
- no image
One-Horse Farmers
as
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
1934
- no image
Opened by Mistake
as
Head Nurse
1934
The Merry Widow
as
Animal Woman (uncredited)
1934
The Old-Fashioned Way
as
Mrs. Wendelschaffer
1934
Upperworld
as
Housekeeper (uncredited)
1934
Chained
as
Edith (uncredited)
1934
You're Telling Me!
as
Mrs. Price
1934
The Spectacle Maker
as
Duchess
1934
Bachelor Bait
as
Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
1934
Once to Every Woman
as
Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
1934
- 1933
Nature in the Wrong
as
Muriel's mother
1933
Asleep in the Feet
as
Female Police Officer
1933
Peg o' My Heart
as
Smythe (maid)
1933
Going Hollywood
as
Briarcroft's Teacher
1933
Stage Mother
as
Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
1933
King of the Jungle
as
Spinster in park (uncredited)
1933
Fast Workers
as
Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
1933
Design for Living
as
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
1933
- no image
Wreckety Wrecks
as
Miss Winterbottom
1933
Meet the Baron
as
Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
1933
Doctor Bull
as
Aunt Emily Banning
1933
Hold Your Man
as
Miss Campbell (uncredited)
1933
- 1932
Girl Grief
as
Miss Tuttle, Principal
1932
Hot Saturday
as
Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
1932
Amateur Daddy
as
Saleslady
1932
Mr. Bride
as
Mrs. Cecil
1932
Young Bride
as
Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Pack Up Your Troubles
as
Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as
Missionary
1932
- no image
The Millionaire Cat
as
Aunt Mathilda
1932
- 1931
- 1930
- 1929
- 1928
- 1927
- 1926
- 1925
- 1924
- 1922
- 1921
- 1920
- 1919
- 1918
- 1917
- 1916
- 1915