Nora Cecil
from London, England, UK
from London, England, UK
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.
Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
Louisa Ames
Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
Miss Millie
Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
(Unknown)
Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Miss Peavy
Martha Williams
Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
Miss Updike
Passenger (uncredited)
Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
Charwoman
Casket Customer
Mrs. Moffett
Women's Club President (uncredited)
Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
Head of Orphanage
Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
Miss Jenkins
Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
Miss Eggleston
English Woman
Widow Peddie
Old Maid at Dog Show
Train Passenger
(Unknown)
Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
(Unknown)
Miss Swerf
Elderly lady (uncredited)
Housekeeper
Leader of Committee (uncredited)
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Dressmaker
Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
Landlady (uncredited)
Mrs. Robinson
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Miss Trent
(Unknown)
Home Economics Woman
School Teacher (uncredited)
Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
Miss Elkins (uncredited)
Ship's Matron (uncredited)
Customer (uncredited)
Granny Adams
Housekeeper (uncredited)
Miss Perkins (uncredited)
Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
Townswoman at Party
Miss Curtiss
Miss Pettigrew
Mrs. Twitchett
Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
Mrs. Price
Schoolteacher
Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
Mrs. Wendelschaffer
Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
One-Horse Farmers
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Edith (uncredited)
Duchess
Opened by Mistake
Head Nurse
Animal Woman (uncredited)
Female Police Officer
Wreckety Wrecks
Miss Winterbottom
Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
Spinster in park (uncredited)
Muriel's mother
Smythe (maid)
Miss Campbell (uncredited)
Aunt Emily Banning
Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
Briarcroft's Teacher
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
Landlady (uncredited)
Saleslady
Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
Miss Tuttle, Principal
The Millionaire Cat
Aunt Mathilda
Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
Mrs. Cecil
Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
Charity Bazaar Committee
Hotel Proprietress
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
Nurse (uncredited)
Amelia Twymley
(Unknown)
Dr. Zernecke
Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
Old Witch
(uncredited)
The Mayor
Mrs. Crandall
Mrs. Prouty
Lucia's Aunt
Mrs. Randall
Betty Carpenter
School Teacher
Mrs. Lodge
Matron Helen Hunt
(uncredited)
Ma Cowan
Julia
Dr. Cecil Grantham
Mrs. Hart
Countess Casanova
(Unknown)
Aunt Priscilla
Matilda Shields - in play
Townswoman
Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
(uncredited)
(Unknown)
(Unknown)
(Unknown)
An Amateur Widow
(Unknown)
Miss Meeker (uncredited)
Mrs. Lindsay
(Unknown)
Emily
Aunt Marie
Miss Spurgeon
Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
Miss Prudence Tilly
Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
Miss McPherson
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
A Model Husband
Mrs Gossip
Spinster (uncredited)
The Arrival of Perpetua
Abigail Majendrie