Nora Cecil
Biography
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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.
Known For
Acting
1937
as
1946
asMiss Lovelace (uncredited)
1925
asCountess Casanova
1929
asOld Witch
1924
asMatilda Shields - in play
1917
asUndetermined Role (uncredited)
1944
asMiss Peavy
1927
asMrs. Randall
1927
asSchool Teacher
1937
asMiss Witherspoon, Superintendent
1917
asMiss McPherson
1922
asLydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
1937
as
1936
asSchool Teacher (uncredited)
1933
asMuriel's mother
1928
asThe Mayor
1927
asJulia
1931
asNurse (uncredited)
1934
asMrs. Twitchett
1945
as
1930
asAmelia Twymley
1934
asSchoolteacher
1921
as
1938
asWidow Peddie
1936
asMiss Elkins (uncredited)
1932
asMiss Tuttle, Principal
1936
asMrs. Robinson
1935
asGranny Adams
1937
asHousekeeper
1934
asMiss Pettigrew
1943
asMartha Williams
1933
asFemale Police Officer
1918
asEmily
1937
asElderly lady (uncredited)
1920
as
1939
asMiss Eggleston
1917
asOne of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
1933
asSmythe (maid)
1926
asDr. Cecil Grantham
1927
asMrs. Lodge
1934
asSubway Passenger (uncredited)
1934
asHead Nurse
1937
asMiss Swerf
1944
asHospital Nurse (uncredited)
1932
asGossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
1935
asBeauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
1933
asBriarcroft's Teacher
1931
asCharity Bazaar Committee
1935
asTownswoman at Party
1940
asLompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
1933
asMiss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
1930
asMrs. Partridge (uncredited)
1931
asHotel Proprietress
1933
asSpinster in park (uncredited)
1939
asMrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
1939
asBoone's Landlady (uncredited)
1939
asMiss Jenkins
1939
asSnoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
1930
as
1936
asAlbert's Mother (uncredited)
1938
asEnglish Woman
1933
asTall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
1939
asMrs. Beckett (uncredited)
1933
asTom's Secretary (uncredited)
1947
asLouisa Ames
1932
asSaleslady
1927
asBetty Carpenter
1947
asMrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
1916
asSpinster (uncredited)
1917
asGossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
1922
asTownswoman
1936
asMrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
1933
asMiss Winterbottom
1941
asCharwoman
1940
asWomen's Club President (uncredited)
1940
asHead of Orphanage
1940
asRighteous Old Lady
1937
asTrain Passenger
1937
asSchoolteacher (uncredited)
1933
asProfessor Winterbottom (uncredited)
1936
asHome Economics Woman
1934
asAnimal Woman (uncredited)
1934
asMrs. Wendelschaffer
1933
asAunt Emily Banning
1942
asHarriet Wooley (uncredited)
1932
asMrs. Cecil
1941
asCasket Customer
1942
asPassenger (uncredited)
1929
as(uncredited)
1942
asMiss Updike
1931
asMalcom's Nurse (uncredited)
1935
asShip's Matron (uncredited)
1916
asMrs Gossip
1930
asDr. Zernecke
1942
asMiss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
1930
asHelen's Maid (uncredited)
1935
asCustomer (uncredited)
1935
asHousekeeper (uncredited)
1932
asLandlady (uncredited)
1931
asAlice Simpson - Welfare Worker
1932
asWelfare Association Officer (uncredited)
1927
asMatron Helen Hunt
1934
asEdith (uncredited)
1937
asDressmaker
1934
asMrs. Price
1928
asMrs. Crandall
1934
asDuchess
1937
asOld Maid at Dog Show
1928
asLucia's Aunt
1918
as
1964
asActress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1926
asMrs. Hart
1934
asMrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
1931
asHelen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
1937
asLeader of Committee (uncredited)
1946
asMrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
1936
asLandlady (uncredited)
1946
asMiss Millie
1936
as
1927
as(uncredited)
1936
asMiss Curtiss
1918
asMiss Prudence Tilly
1918
asAunt Marie
1935
asMiss Perkins (uncredited)
1932
asMissionary
1915
asAbigail Majendrie
1920
as1919
as
1944
asTrain Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
1933
asMiss Campbell (uncredited)
1928
asMrs. Prouty
1936
asMrs. Wigby - Townswoman
1919
asMrs. Lindsay
1934
asMiss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
1940
asMrs. Moffett
1936
asMiss Trent
1932
asAunt Mathilda
1927
asMa Cowan
1934
asStream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
1922
as(uncredited)
1918
asMiss Spurgeon
Production
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