Nora Cecil
Acting
🎂 1878-09-24
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(139)
Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
1936
Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
1939
Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
1939
Missionary
1932
1936
Ma Cowan
1927
Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
1947
Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
Charity Bazaar Committee
1931
Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
1933
Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
1944
Train Passenger
1937
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
1933
Mrs. Moffett
1940
Amelia Twymley
1930
Louisa Ames
1947
Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
1937
Martha Williams
1943
Housekeeper (uncredited)
1935
Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
1942
Miss Peavy
1944
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
1936
Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
1931
1945
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
1944
Helen's Maid (uncredited)
1930
1930
Miss Curtiss
1936
Dressmaker
1937
1937
Edith (uncredited)
1934
Righteous Old Lady
1940
Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
1932
Miss Elkins (uncredited)
1936
Nurse (uncredited)
1931
Miss Winterbottom
1933
Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
1939
Miss Campbell (uncredited)
1933
One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
1917
Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
1931
Head of Orphanage
1940
Animal Woman (uncredited)
1934
Ship's Matron (uncredited)
1935
Miss Swerf
1937
Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
1933
English Woman
1938
Smythe (maid)
1933
Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
1934
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
1937
Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
1936
Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
1933
Housekeeper
1937
Home Economics Woman
1936
Countess Casanova
1925
Townswoman at Party
1935
Miss Jenkins
1939
Abigail Majendrie
1915
Briarcroft's Teacher
1933
Passenger (uncredited)
1942
Charwoman
1941
1937
Hotel Proprietress
1931
Miss Eggleston
1939
Female Police Officer
1933
Landlady (uncredited)
1936
Customer (uncredited)
1935
Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
1946
Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
1942
Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
1940
Spinster in park (uncredited)
1933
Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
1946
Women's Club President (uncredited)
1940
Granny Adams
1935
Mrs. Twitchett
1934
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
1931
School Teacher (uncredited)
1936
Miss Prudence Tilly
1918
Lucia's Aunt
1928
Miss Millie
1946
1918
Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
1932
Dr. Zernecke
1930
Leader of Committee (uncredited)
1937
Mrs. Robinson
1936
Schoolteacher
1934
(uncredited)
1927
Aunt Emily Banning
1933
(uncredited)
1929
Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
1930
Saleslady
1932
Casket Customer
1941
Mrs. Crandall
1928
Miss Perkins (uncredited)
1935
Old Maid at Dog Show
1937
Mrs. Cecil
1932
Mrs. Lindsay
1919
Old Witch
1929
Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
1934
Duchess
1934
Miss Updike
1942
Housekeeper (uncredited)
1934
Emily
1918
School Teacher
1927
Betty Carpenter
1927
Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
1939
Miss Trent
1936
Mrs. Price
1934
Widow Peddie
1938
Mrs. Lodge
1927
1920
Elderly lady (uncredited)
1937
Aunt Mathilda
1932
Mrs. Wendelschaffer
1934
Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
1922
Miss Tuttle, Principal
1932
Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
1917
Julia
1927
Head Nurse
1934
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
1934
Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
1935
Mrs. Hart
1926
Miss McPherson
1917
Dr. Cecil Grantham
1926
Matilda Shields - in play
1924
Spinster (uncredited)
1916
Miss Pettigrew
1934
Aunt Marie
1918
Mrs. Randall
1927
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1917
Mrs. Prouty
1928
The Mayor
1928
Matron Helen Hunt
1927
1920
1921
Townswoman
1922
1919
Muriel's mother
1933
Mrs Gossip
1916