Nora Cecil
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: September 24, 1878
Day of Death: May 1, 1951 (73 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
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Actor
Night of Mystery
Actor Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
Three Smart Boys
Actor
Night Must Fall
Actor Housekeeper
Partners in Crime
Actor Elderly lady (uncredited)
She Asked for It
Actor Miss Swerf
Easy Living
Actor Train Passenger
Champagne Waltz
Actor Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Nothing Sacred
Actor Dressmaker
Borrowing Trouble
Actor Old Maid at Dog Show
The Mighty Treve
Actor Leader of Committee (uncredited)
Blossoms On Broadway
1936
Actor School Teacher (uncredited)
Under Your Spell
Actor Miss Elkins (uncredited)
College Holiday
Actor Mrs. Robinson
Little Miss Nobody
Actor Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Fury
Actor Mrs. Potter, Landlady
Two in the Dark
Actor Home Economics Woman
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Actor Landlady (uncredited)
Dancing Pirate
Actor
Let's Make a Million
Actor Miss Curtiss
Collegiate
1935
1934
Actor Mrs. Twitchett
Mixed Nuts
Actor Schoolteacher
Laughing Boy
Actor Miss Pettigrew
Search for Beauty
Actor Subway Passenger (uncredited)
One-Horse Farmers
Actor Head Nurse
Opened by Mistake
Actor Animal Woman (uncredited)
The Merry Widow
Actor Mrs. Wendelschaffer
The Old-Fashioned Way
Actor Housekeeper (uncredited)
Upperworld
Actor Edith (uncredited)
Chained
Actor Mrs. Price
You're Telling Me!
Actor Duchess
The Spectacle Maker
Actor Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
Bachelor Bait
1933
Actor Muriel's mother
Nature in the Wrong
Actor Female Police Officer
Asleep in the Feet
Actor Smythe (maid)
Peg o' My Heart
Actor Briarcroft's Teacher
Going Hollywood
Actor Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss
Stage Mother
Actor Spinster in park (uncredited)
King of the Jungle
Actor Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
Fast Workers
Actor Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
Design for Living
Actor Miss Winterbottom
Wreckety Wrecks
Actor Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
Meet the Baron
Actor Aunt Emily Banning
Doctor Bull
