Nora Cecil
Acting
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.
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
Little Men
Head of Orphanage
The Bank Dick
Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
Young People
Righteous Old Lady
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
Fury
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Little Miss Nobody
Mrs. Robinson
Dancing Pirate
Landlady (uncredited)
Collegiate
Miss Curtiss
Two in the Dark
Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
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
Fast Workers
Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
King of the Jungle
Spinster in park (uncredited)
Wreckety Wrecks
Miss Winterbottom
Asleep in the Feet
Female Police Officer
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Missionary
Mr. Bride
Mrs. Cecil
Hot Saturday
Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
The Millionaire Cat
Aunt Mathilda
Girl Grief
Miss Tuttle, Principal
Pack Up Your Troubles
Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
Amateur Daddy
Saleslady
Young Bride
Landlady (uncredited)
Arrowsmith
Nurse (uncredited)
The Ruling Voice
Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
Street Scene
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Everything’s Rosie
Hotel Proprietress
East Lynne
Charity Bazaar Committee
Millie
Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
Only Saps Work
Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
Hell's Angels
Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Little Accident
Dr. Zernecke
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Seven Days Leave
Amelia Twymley
Footlights and Fools
(uncredited)
Seven Footprints to Satan
Old Witch
The Cavalier
Lucia's Aunt
Driftwood
Mrs. Prouty
The Baby Cyclone
Mrs. Crandall
A Trick of Hearts
The Mayor
The Devil Dancer
Julia
Born to Battle
Ma Cowan
Too Many Crooks
(uncredited)
Girls
Matron Helen Hunt
Sensation Seekers
Mrs. Lodge
The Demi-Bride
School Teacher
The Fortune Hunter
Betty Carpenter
The Silent Rider
Mrs. Randall
Midnight Faces
Mrs. Hart
Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Countess Casanova
The Deadwood Coach
Matilda Shields - in play
Darwin Was Right
Aunt Priscilla
The Town That Forgot God
(uncredited)
Manslaughter
Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
Timothy's Quest
Townswoman
Footfalls
The Daughter Pays
Red Foam
Woman, Woman!
Mrs. Lindsay
Miss Crusoe
Miss Meeker (uncredited)
An Amateur Widow
Love Net
Miss Prudence Tilly
The Zero Hour
Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
Appearance of Evil
Miss Spurgeon
By Hook or Crook
Aunt Marie
American Buds
Emily
Prunella
The Wild Girl
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
A Royal Romance
Miss McPherson
The Poor Little Rich Girl
One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
Tillie Wakes Up
Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
The Social Secretary
Spinster (uncredited)
A Model Husband
Mrs Gossip
The Arrival of Perpetua
Abigail Majendrie