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