Birth Day: 1878-09-24
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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As Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) -
As Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited) -
As Louisa Ames -
As Miss Millie -
As Miss Lovelace (uncredited) -
As Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited) -
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As Miss Peavy -
As Hospital Nurse (uncredited) -
As Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited) -
As Martha Williams -
As Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited) -
As Miss Updike -
As Passenger (uncredited) -
As Harriet Wooley (uncredited) -
As Charwoman -
As Casket Customer -
As Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited) -
As Women's Club President (uncredited) -
As Mrs. Moffett -
As Righteous Old Lady -
As Head of Orphanage -
As Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited) -
As Boone's Landlady (uncredited) -
As Miss Eggleston -
As Miss Jenkins -
As Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited) -
As Mrs. Beckett (uncredited) -
As Widow Peddie -
As English Woman -
As Schoolteacher (uncredited) -
As Train Passenger -
As Miss Swerf -
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As Dressmaker -
As Elderly lady (uncredited) -
As Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent -
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As Housekeeper -
As Old Maid at Dog Show -
As Leader of Committee (uncredited) -
As Albert's Mother (uncredited) -
As Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited) -
As Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman -
As Home Economics Woman -
As Miss Curtiss -
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As Landlady (uncredited) -
As Miss Trent -
As Mrs. Robinson -
As School Teacher (uncredited) -
As Miss Elkins (uncredited) -
As Miss Perkins (uncredited) -
As Ship's Matron (uncredited) -
As Townswoman at Party -
As Granny Adams -
As Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited) -
As Customer (uncredited) -
As Housekeeper (uncredited) -
As Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited) -
As Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited) -
As Animal Woman (uncredited) -
As Duchess -
As Mrs. Wendelschaffer -
As Schoolteacher -
As Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited) -
As Miss Pettigrew -
As Head Nurse
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As Subway Passenger (uncredited)
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As Edith (uncredited) -
As Mrs. Price -
As Mrs. Twitchett -
As Aunt Emily Banning -
As Professor Winterbottom (uncredited) -
As Miss Campbell (uncredited) -
As Miss Winterbottom
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As Female Police Officer -
As Smythe (maid) -
As Muriel's mother -
As Tom's Secretary (uncredited) -
As Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited) -
As Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited) -
As Briarcroft's Teacher -
As Spinster in park (uncredited) -
As Landlady (uncredited) -
As Missionary -
As Welfare Association Officer (uncredited) -
As Mrs. Cecil -
As Aunt Mathilda
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As Miss Tuttle, Principal -
As Saleslady -
As Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited) -
As Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited) -
As Nurse (uncredited) -
As Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker -
As Charity Bazaar Committee -
As Malcom's Nurse (uncredited) -
As Hotel Proprietress -
As Helen's Maid (uncredited) -
As Mrs. Partridge (uncredited) -
As Amelia Twymley -
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As Dr. Zernecke -
As Old Witch -
As (uncredited) -
As Lucia's Aunt -
As Mrs. Prouty -
As Mrs. Crandall -
As The Mayor -
As School Teacher -
As (uncredited) -
As Ma Cowan -
As Matron Helen Hunt -
As Mrs. Randall -
As Mrs. Lodge -
As Betty Carpenter -
As Julia -
As Dr. Cecil Grantham -
As Mrs. Hart -
As Countess Casanova -
As Aunt Priscilla -
As Matilda Shields - in play -
As (uncredited) -
As Townswoman -
As Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited) -
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As Mrs. Lindsay -
As Miss Meeker (uncredited) -
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As Miss Prudence Tilly -
As Aunt Marie -
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As Emily -
As Miss Spurgeon -
As Mrs. Winslow (uncredited) -
As Miss McPherson -
As Undetermined Role (uncredited) -
As One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited) -
As Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
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As Mrs Gossip
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As Spinster (uncredited) -
As Abigail Majendrie