Nora Cecil
- Acting
- September 24, 1878 · London, England, UK
- May 1, 1951
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Big Parade of Comedy · Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Mourning Becomes Electra · Louisa Ames
- The Sea of Grass · Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
- Big Town · Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
- The Missing Lady · Miss Millie
- Two Sisters from Boston · Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
- Lady on a Train
- The Thin Man Goes Home · Miss Peavy
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek · Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
- Hail the Conquering Hero · Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
- The Unknown Guest · Martha Williams
- I Married a Witch · Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
- Apache Trail · Passenger (uncredited)
- The Wife Takes a Flyer · Miss Updike
- Obliging Young Lady · Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
- Three Girls About Town · Casket Customer
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob · Charwoman
- The Bank Dick · Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
- Little Men · Head of Orphanage
- Young People · Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
- Lucky Partners · Women's Club President (uncredited)
- Those Were the Days! · Mrs. Moffett
- What a Life · Miss Eggleston
- Some Like It Hot · Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
- Union Pacific · Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell · Miss Jenkins
- Stagecoach · Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
- Mr. Boggs Steps Out · Widow Peddie
- International Settlement · English Woman
- Borrowing Trouble · Dressmaker
- Nothing Sacred · Schoolteacher (uncredited)
- Blossoms On Broadway · Leader of Committee (uncredited)
- Partners in Crime · Housekeeper
- She Asked for It · Elderly lady (uncredited)
- Easy Living · Miss Swerf
- Night of Mystery
- Three Smart Boys · Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
- Night Must Fall
- Champagne Waltz · Train Passenger
- The Mighty Treve · Old Maid at Dog Show
- College Holiday · Miss Elkins (uncredited)
- Laughing at Trouble · Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
- Under Your Spell · School Teacher (uncredited)
- The Big Broadcast of 1937 · Home Economics Woman
- Let's Make a Million
- Girl of the Ozarks · Miss Trent
- Little Miss Nobody · Mrs. Robinson
- Fury · Albert's Mother (uncredited)
- Dancing Pirate · Landlady (uncredited)
- Two in the Dark · Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
- Collegiate · Miss Curtiss
- Way Down East · Townswoman at Party
- Slightly Static · Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
- Vagabond Lady · Miss Perkins (uncredited)
- Gold Diggers of 1935 · Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Car 99 · Granny Adams
- Memories and Melodies · Customer (uncredited)
- Biography of a Bachelor Girl · Ship's Matron (uncredited)
- The Merry Widow · Animal Woman (uncredited)
- Opened by Mistake · Head Nurse
- The Spectacle Maker · Duchess
- Chained · Edith (uncredited)
- One-Horse Farmers · Subway Passenger (uncredited)
- Bachelor Bait · Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
- The Old-Fashioned Way · Mrs. Wendelschaffer
- Upperworld · Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Laughing Boy · Schoolteacher
- You're Telling Me! · Mrs. Price
- Once to Every Woman · Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
- Mixed Nuts · Mrs. Twitchett
- Search for Beauty · Miss Pettigrew
- Design for Living · Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
- Going Hollywood · Briarcroft's Teacher
- Meet the Baron · Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
- Stage Mother · Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
- Doctor Bull · Aunt Emily Banning
- Hold Your Man · Miss Campbell (uncredited)
- Peg o' My Heart · Smythe (maid)
- Nature in the Wrong · Muriel's mother