Nora Cecil
Age: 72 | From: London, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1878-09-26 12:49:23
Death: 1951-05-01 12:49:23
Aliases: Norah Cecile , Nora Cecile
Gender: Female
Place of birth: London, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 49
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Stagecoach
(1939) Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
Union Pacific
(1939) Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
Fury
(1936) Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Young People
(1940) Righteous Old Lady
Hell's Angels
(1930) Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Fast Workers
(1933) Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
International Settlement
(1938) English Woman
Stage Mother
(1933) Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store BossActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1947 | Louisa Ames | |
| Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited) | ||
| 1946 | Miss Lovelace (uncredited) | |
| Miss Millie | ||
| Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited) | ||
| 1945 | N/A | |
| 1944 | Miss Peavy | |
| 1943 | Hospital Nurse (uncredited) | |
| Martha Williams | ||
| 1942 | Harriet Wooley (uncredited) | |
| Passenger (uncredited) | ||
| Miss Updike | ||
| Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited) | ||
| 1941 | Casket Customer | |
| Charwoman | ||
| 1940 | Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited) | |
| Head of Orphanage | ||
| Righteous Old Lady | ||
| Women's Club President (uncredited) | ||
| 1939 | Miss Eggleston | |
| Mrs. Beckett (uncredited) | ||
| Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited) | ||
| Miss Jenkins | ||
| Boone's Landlady (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited) | ||
| 1938 | Widow Peddie | |
| English Woman | ||
| 1937 | Dressmaker | |
| Schoolteacher | ||
| Leader of Committee (uncredited) | ||
| Housekeeper | ||
| Elderly lady (uncredited) | ||
| Miss Swerf | ||
| N/A | ||
| Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent | ||
| N/A | ||
| Train Passenger | ||
| Old Maid at Dog Show | ||
| 1936 | Miss Elkins (uncredited) | |
| School Teacher (uncredited) | ||
| Home Economics Woman | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mrs. Robinson | ||
| Albert's Mother (uncredited) | ||
| Landlady (uncredited) | ||
| Miss Curtiss | ||
| Mrs. Potter, Landlady | ||
| 1935 | Townswoman at Party | |
| Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited) | ||
| Housekeeper (uncredited) | ||
| Granny Adams | ||
| Customer (uncredited) | ||
| Ship's Matron (uncredited) | ||
| 1934 | Animal Woman (uncredited) | |
| Head Nurse | ||
| Duchess | ||
| Edith (uncredited) | ||
| Subway Passenger (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Wendelschaffer | ||
| Housekeeper (uncredited) | ||
| Schoolteacher | ||
| Mrs. Price | ||
| Mrs. Twitchett | ||
| Miss Pettigrew | ||
| 1933 | Tom's Secretary (uncredited) | |
| Briarcroft's Teacher | ||
| Professor Winterbottom (uncredited) | ||
| Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss | ||
| Aunt Emily Banning | ||
| Smythe (maid) | ||
| Muriel's mother | ||
| Spinster in park (uncredited) | ||
| Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited) | ||
| Miss Winterbottom | ||
| Female Police Officer | ||
| 1932 | Mrs. Cecil | |
| Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited) | ||
| Miss Tuttle, Principal | ||
| Welfare Association Officer (uncredited) | ||
| Saleslady | ||
| Landlady (uncredited) | ||
| 1931 | Nurse (uncredited) | |
| Malcom's Nurse (uncredited) | ||
| Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker | ||
| Hotel Proprietress | ||
| Charity Bazaar Committee | ||
| Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited) | ||
| 1930 | Mrs. Partridge | |
| Helen's Maid (uncredited) | ||
| Dr. Zernecke | ||
| N/A | ||
| Amelia Twymley | ||
| 1929 | (uncredited) | |
| Old Witch | ||
| 1928 | N/A | |
| Mrs. Crandall | ||
| The Mayor | ||
| 1927 | Julia | |
| (uncredited) | ||
| Matron Helen Hunt | ||
| Mrs. Lodge | ||
| School Teacher | ||
| Betty Carpenter | ||
| Mrs. Randall | ||
| 1926 | Mrs. Hart | |
| Dr. Cecil Grantham | ||
| 1925 | Countess Casanova | |
| 1924 | Matilda Shields - in play | |
| 1922 | Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited) | |
| Townswoman | ||
| 1921 | N/A | |
| 1920 | N/A | |
| 1918 | Emily | |
| N/A | ||
| 1917 | Undetermined Role (uncredited) | |
| Miss McPherson | ||
| One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited) | ||
| Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken | ||
| 1916 | Spinster (uncredited) | |
| Mrs Gossip | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
