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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 24, 1878
Died
May 1, 1951
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Norah Cecile
- Nora Cecile
Nora Cecil
0.2 Popularity
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
6.3
Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
6.0
Louisa Ames
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
6.1
Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
The Sea of Grass
1947
4.8
Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
Big Town
1946
4.6
Miss Millie
The Missing Lady
1946
6.0
Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
6.6
Lady on a Train
1945
7.1
Miss Peavy
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
6.8
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1944
7.0
Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
Credits
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
6.3
Mourning Becomes Electra
as Louisa Ames
1947
6.0
The Sea of Grass
as Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
1947
6.1
Big Town
as Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
1946
4.8
The Missing Lady
as Miss Millie
1946
4.6
Two Sisters from Boston
as Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
1946
6.0
Lady on a Train
1945
6.6
The Thin Man Goes Home
as Miss Peavy
1944
7.1
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
1944
6.8
Hail the Conquering Hero
as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
1944
7.0
The Unknown Guest
as Martha Williams
1943
0.0
I Married a Witch
as Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
1942
6.8
Apache Trail
as Passenger (uncredited)
1942
6.4
The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Miss Updike
1942
4.5
Obliging Young Lady
as Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
1942
5.0
Three Girls About Town
as Casket Customer
1941
5.3
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Charwoman
1941
4.7
The Bank Dick
as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
1940
6.5
Little Men
as Head of Orphanage
1940
5.6
Young People
as Righteous Old Lady
1940
4.6
Lucky Partners
as Women's Club President (uncredited)
1940
6.0
Those Were the Days!
as Mrs. Moffett
1940
0.0
What a Life
as Miss Eggleston
1939
0.0
Some Like It Hot
as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
1939
7.2
Union Pacific
as Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
1939
6.6
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Miss Jenkins
1939
6.0
Stagecoach
as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
1939
7.6
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
1939
6.6
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
as Widow Peddie
1938
5.1
International Settlement
as English Woman
1938
5.6
Borrowing Trouble
as Dressmaker
1937
6.0
Nothing Sacred
as Schoolteacher (uncredited)
1937
6.3
Blossoms On Broadway
as Leader of Committee (uncredited)
1937
3.7
Partners in Crime
as Housekeeper
1937
0.0
She Asked for It
as Elderly lady (uncredited)
1937
6.0
Easy Living
as Miss Swerf
1937
7.1
Night of Mystery
1937
0.0
Three Smart Boys
as Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
1937
6.5
Night Must Fall
1937
6.9
Champagne Waltz
as Train Passenger
1937
0.0
The Mighty Treve
as Old Maid at Dog Show
1937
6.0
College Holiday
as Miss Elkins (uncredited)
1936
5.2
Laughing at Trouble
as Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
1936
6.0
Under Your Spell
as School Teacher (uncredited)
1936
7.0
The Big Broadcast of 1937
as Home Economics Woman
1936
5.4
Let's Make a Million
1936
0.0
Girl of the Ozarks
as Miss Trent
1936
6.0
Little Miss Nobody
as Mrs. Robinson
1936
6.0
Fury
as Albert's Mother (uncredited)
1936
7.4
Dancing Pirate
as Landlady (uncredited)
1936
5.5
Collegiate
as Miss Curtiss
1936
0.0
Two in the Dark
as Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
1936
5.9
Way Down East
as Townswoman at Party
1935
3.0
Slightly Static
as Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
1935
0.0
Vagabond Lady
as Miss Perkins (uncredited)
1935
7.2
Gold Diggers of 1935
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
1935
6.4
Car 99
as Granny Adams
1935
5.0
Memories and Melodies
as Customer (uncredited)
1935
0.0
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
as Ship's Matron (uncredited)
1935
6.3
The Merry Widow
as Animal Woman (uncredited)
1934
6.7
🎬
Opened by Mistake
as Head Nurse
1934
0.0
The Spectacle Maker
as Duchess
1934
5.6
Chained
as Edith (uncredited)
1934
6.8
🎬
One-Horse Farmers
as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
1934
0.0
Bachelor Bait
as Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
1934
5.7
The Old-Fashioned Way
as Mrs. Wendelschaffer
1934
7.1
Upperworld
as Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
1934
6.3
Laughing Boy
as Schoolteacher
1934
3.2
You're Telling Me!
as Mrs. Price
1934
6.3
Once to Every Woman
as Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
1934
6.0
Mixed Nuts
as Mrs. Twitchett
1934
6.2
Search for Beauty
as Miss Pettigrew
1934
5.3
Design for Living
as Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
1933
7.1
Going Hollywood
as Briarcroft's Teacher
1933
5.3
Meet the Baron
as Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
1933
4.2
Stage Mother
as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
1933
5.0
Doctor Bull
as Aunt Emily Banning
1933
6.5
Hold Your Man
as Miss Campbell (uncredited)
1933
6.1
Peg o' My Heart
as Smythe (maid)
1933
4.4
Nature in the Wrong
as Muriel's mother
1933
0.0
King of the Jungle
as Spinster in park (uncredited)
1933
5.0
Fast Workers
as Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
1933
4.7
🎬
Wreckety Wrecks
as Miss Winterbottom
1933
0.0
Asleep in the Feet
as Female Police Officer
1933
1.0
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as Missionary
1932
6.2
Mr. Bride
as Mrs. Cecil
1932
5.5
Hot Saturday
as Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
1932
6.4
🎬
The Millionaire Cat
as Aunt Mathilda
1932
0.0
Girl Grief
as Miss Tuttle, Principal
1932
5.0
Pack Up Your Troubles
as Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
1932
6.7
Amateur Daddy
as Saleslady
1932
0.0
Young Bride
as Landlady (uncredited)
1932
3.0
Arrowsmith
as Nurse (uncredited)
1931
6.6
The Ruling Voice
as Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
1931
6.0
Street Scene
as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
1931
6.7
Everything’s Rosie
as Hotel Proprietress
1931
4.0
East Lynne
as Charity Bazaar Committee
1931
6.2
Millie
as Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
1931
5.1
Only Saps Work
as Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
1930
5.5
Hell's Angels
as Helen's Maid (uncredited)
1930
6.4
Little Accident
as Dr. Zernecke
1930
0.0
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930
5.3
Seven Days Leave
as Amelia Twymley
1930
7.0
Footlights and Fools
as (uncredited)
1929
0.0
Seven Footprints to Satan
as Old Witch
1929
6.1
The Cavalier
as Lucia's Aunt
1928
0.0
Driftwood
as Mrs. Prouty
1928
0.0
The Baby Cyclone
as Mrs. Crandall
1928
0.0
A Trick of Hearts
as The Mayor
1928
0.0
The Devil Dancer
as Julia
1927
5.0
Born to Battle
as Ma Cowan
1927
0.0
Too Many Crooks
as (uncredited)
1927
0.0
Girls
as Matron Helen Hunt
1927
3.3
Sensation Seekers
as Mrs. Lodge
1927
6.4
The Demi-Bride
as School Teacher
1927
0.0
The Fortune Hunter
as Betty Carpenter
1927
0.0
The Silent Rider
as Mrs. Randall
1927
0.0
Midnight Faces
as Mrs. Hart
1926
4.5
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
1926
0.0
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
as Countess Casanova
1925
0.0
The Deadwood Coach
as Matilda Shields - in play
1924
0.0
The Town That Forgot God
as (uncredited)
1922
0.0
Manslaughter
as Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
1922
5.2
Timothy's Quest
as Townswoman
1922
6.4
Footfalls
1921
0.0
The Daughter Pays
1920
0.0
Red Foam
1920
0.0
Woman, Woman!
as Mrs. Lindsay
1919
0.0
🎬
An Amateur Widow
1919
0.0
Love Net
as Miss Prudence Tilly
1918
0.0
Appearance of Evil
as Miss Spurgeon
1918
0.0
By Hook or Crook
as Aunt Marie
1918
0.0
American Buds
as Emily
1918
0.0
Prunella
1918
0.0
The Wild Girl
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1917
0.0
A Royal Romance
as Miss McPherson
1917
0.0
The Poor Little Rich Girl
as One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
1917
5.7
🎬
Tillie Wakes Up
as Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
1917
6.0
The Social Secretary
as Spinster (uncredited)
1916
5.6
🎬
A Model Husband
as Mrs Gossip
1916
5.0
🎬
The Arrival of Perpetua
as Abigail Majendrie
1915
0.0