Nora Cecil
AKA: Norah Cecile
Birthday: 1878-09-24
Died: 1951-05-01
Birthplace: London, England, UK
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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.
Filmography
Character: Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
Character: Countess Casanova
Character: Matilda Shields - in play
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Character: School Teacher
Character: Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
Character: Miss McPherson
Character: Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
Character: School Teacher (uncredited)
Character: Muriel's mother
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Twitchett
Character: Amelia Twymley
Character: Miss Elkins (uncredited)
Character: Miss Tuttle, Principal
Character: Miss Pettigrew
Character: Martha Williams
Character: Female Police Officer
Character: Elderly lady (uncredited)
Character: Miss Eggleston
Character: One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
Character: Dr. Cecil Grantham
Character: Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Character: Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Character: Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
Character: Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
Character: Briarcroft's Teacher
Character: Townswoman at Party
Character: Charity Bazaar Committee
Character: Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
Character: Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss
Character: Mrs. Partridge
Character: Spinster in park (uncredited)
Character: Hotel Proprietress
Character: Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
Character: Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
Character: Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Character: Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
Character: Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
Character: Betty Carpenter
Character: Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
Character: Spinster (uncredited)
Character: Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
Character: Mrs. Potter, Landlady
Character: Miss Winterbottom
Character: Women's Club President (uncredited)
Character: Head of Orphanage
Character: Righteous Old Lady
Character: Train Passenger
Character: Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Character: Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
Character: Home Economics Woman
Character: Animal Woman (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Wendelschaffer
Character: Aunt Emily Banning
Character: Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
Character: Casket Customer
Character: Passenger (uncredited)
Character: Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
Character: Ship's Matron (uncredited)
Character: Housekeeper (uncredited)
Character: Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
Character: Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Character: Housekeeper (uncredited)
Character: Landlady (uncredited)
Character: Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Character: Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
Character: Matron Helen Hunt
Character: Edith (uncredited)
Character: Old Maid at Dog Show
Character: Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
Character: Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
Character: Leader of Committee (uncredited)
Character: Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
Character: Landlady (uncredited)