Nora Cecil
Acting
Born: 1878-09-24 in London, England, UK
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
Stagecoach
Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
Union Pacific
Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
Street Scene
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Chained
Edith (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
Hell's Angels
Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Bachelor Bait
Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
Fury
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Design for Living
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
Nothing Sacred
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
The Thin Man Goes Home
Miss Peavy
Little Miss Nobody
Mrs. Robinson
The Sea of Grass
Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
Woman, Woman!
Mrs. Lindsay
The Bank Dick
Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
The Zero Hour
Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
Collegiate
Miss Curtiss
Young People
Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
Easy Living
Miss Swerf
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
Pack Up Your Troubles
Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Missionary
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Going Hollywood
Briarcroft's Teacher
The Merry Widow
Animal Woman (uncredited)
Champagne Waltz
Train Passenger
Prunella
The Town That Forgot God
(uncredited)
Footfalls
Apache Trail
Passenger (uncredited)
Amateur Daddy
Saleslady
Miss Crusoe
Miss Meeker (uncredited)
Three Girls About Town
Casket Customer
Arrowsmith
Nurse (uncredited)
Lady on a Train
Mixed Nuts
Mrs. Twitchett
The Missing Lady
Miss Millie
Hail the Conquering Hero
Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Doctor Bull
Aunt Emily Banning