Occupation Actress Name Nora Cecil | Years active 1915–47 Role Character actress | |
Born September 26, 1878 ( 1878-09-26 ) London, England, United Kingdom Died May 1, 1951, Los Angeles, California, United States Movies The Old Fashioned Way, Mourning Becomes Electra, Design for Living, Peg o' My Heart, Doctor Bull Similar People John Ford, Charles Barton, Maurice Tourneur, Fred C Newmeyer, A Edward Sutherland | ||
Edie Moseley's Valentine's Day
Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – September 26, 1951) was an American character actress whose thirty year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. She appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts. Her 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. In 1915 she would transition into films, her first appearance being in a starring role in The Arrival of Perpetua, directed by Emile Chautard. She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law" and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts".
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- Edie Moseleys Valentines Day
- GIRL OF THE OZARKS 1936 Opening school scene
- Filmography feature films
- Filmography
- References
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. Cecil's final acting performance was in a featured role in the classic Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, and Kirk Douglas. Cecil died on May 1, 1951 in Los Angeles, California.
GIRL OF THE OZARKS (1936) Opening school scene
Filmography (feature films)
(Per AFI database)
Filmography
Actress
1947
Mourning Becomes Electra as
Louisa Ames
1947
The Sea of Grass as
Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
1946
No Leave, No Love as
Indignant Onlooker at Hotel Desk (uncredited)
1946
Big Town as
Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
1946
The Missing Lady as
Miss Millie
1946
Two Sisters from Boston as
Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
1946
Johnny Comes Flying Home as
Bank Customer (uncredited)
1946
The Kid from Brooklyn as
Woman in Window (uncredited)
1945
Lady on a Train as
Woman with Umbrella and Radio (uncredited)
1945
Molly and Me as
Clerk at Domestic Service Agency (uncredited)
1944
Together Again as
Woman at Recital (uncredited)
1944
The Thin Man Goes Home as
Miss Peavy
1944
Hail the Conquering Hero as
Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
1943
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek as
Head Nurse (uncredited)
1943
The Unknown Guest as
Martha Williams
1943
Two Weeks to Live as
Grandma Masters (uncredited)
1943
Calaboose as
Irate Woman in Car (uncredited)
1942
I Married a Witch as
Harriet Wooley
1942
The Daring Young Man as
Matron (uncredited)
1942
Apache Trail as
Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
1942
Tish as
Spinster (uncredited)
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer as
Miss Updike (uncredited)
1942
Jail House Blues as
Matron (uncredited)
1942
Obliging Young Lady as
Mrs. Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
1942
Call Out the Marines as
Elderly Lady with Glasses (uncredited)
1941
Three Girls About Town as
Casket Customer (uncredited)
1941
It Started with Eve as
Mrs. Fields - Hotel Guest (uncredited)
1941
Unexpected Uncle as
Muriel (uncredited)
1941
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as
Charwoman
1940
Little Men as
Head of Orphanage (uncredited)
1940
The Bank Dick as
Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
1940
Hit Parade of 1941 as
Trader (uncredited)
1940
Young People as
Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
1940
Lucky Partners as
Women's Club President (uncredited)
1940
Anne of Windy Poplars as
Miss Blecker (uncredited)
1940
Queen of the Mob as
Mission Worker (uncredited)
1940
The Captain Is a Lady as
Lady Buying Groceries (uncredited)
1940
Those Were the Days! as
Mrs. Moffett (uncredited)
1940
On Their Own (uncredited)
1939
What a Life as
Miss Eggleston
1939
Some Like It Hot as
Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
1939
Union Pacific as
Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as
Miss Jenkins (uncredited)
1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as
Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
1939
St. Louis Blues as
Storekeeper (uncredited)
1939
Stagecoach as
Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
1938
King of Alcatraz as
Nora Kane
1938
No Time to Marry as
Rusty's Aunt (uncredited)
1938
International Settlement as
English Woman (uncredited)
1938
Mr. Boggs Steps Out as
Widow Peddie
1937
The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble as
Dressmaker (uncredited)
1937
Nothing Sacred as
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
1937
Blossoms on Broadway as
Leader of Committee (uncredited)
1937
Partners in Crime as
Housekeeper
1937
She Asked for It as
Elderly lady (uncredited)
1937
Easy Living as
Miss Swerf
1937
Night of Mystery as
Hemming
1937
Three Smart Boys (Short) as
Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
1937
Night Must Fall as
Woman in Tour (uncredited)
1937
Champagne Waltz as
Train Passenger (uncredited)
1937
The Mighty Treve as
Old Maid at Dog Show
1936
College Holiday as
Miss Elkins (uncredited)
1936
Career Woman as
Witness--New York (uncredited)
1936
Let's Make a Million (uncredited)
1936
Laughing at Trouble as
Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman (uncredited)
1936
Under Your Spell as
School Teacher (uncredited)
1936
The Big Broadcast of 1937 as
Home Economics Woman
1936
Girl of the Ozarks as
Miss Trent
1936
Fury as
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
1936
Little Miss Nobody as
Mrs. Robinson (uncredited)
1936
Dancing Pirate as
Landlady (uncredited)
1936
Collegiate as
Miss Curtiss
1936
Two in the Dark as
Mrs. Potter - Landlady (uncredited)
1935
Grand Exit as
Miss Appleby, Third Secretary (uncredited)
1935
Way Down East as
Townswoman at Party
1935
Slightly Static (Short) as
Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
1935
Memories and Melodies (Short) as
Customer (uncredited)
1935
Vagabond Lady as
Miss Perkins - Spear Office Worker (uncredited)
1935
Gold Diggers of 1935 as
Housekeeper (uncredited)
1935
Car 99 as
Granny Adams
1935
Biography of a Bachelor Girl as
Ship's Matron (uncredited)
1934
Ferry-Go-Round (Short) as
Bit Role (uncredited)
1934
6 Day Bike Rider as
Choir Leader (uncredited)
1934
The Merry Widow as
Animal Woman (uncredited)
1934
Opened by Mistake (Short) as
Head Nurse
1934
The Spectacle Maker (Short) as
Duchess (uncredited)
1934
Chained as
Edith - a Shipboard Spinster (uncredited)
1934
Pursued as
Tourist Welfare Worker (uncredited)
1934
One-Horse Farmers (Short) as
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
1934
Bachelor Bait as
Mrs. Trutmanner - President of the Window Box Horticulturists (uncredited)
1934
The Old Fashioned Way as
Mrs. Wendelschaffer
1934
Hollywood Party as
Scientific Pedant (uncredited)
1934
Upperworld as
Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
1934
Laughing Boy as
Teacher (uncredited)
1934
Glamour as
Nurse (uncredited)
1934
Apples to You! (Short) as
Opera Patron in Box with Announcer (uncredited)
1934
You're Telling Me! as
Mrs. Price
1934
Once to Every Woman as
Elizabeth Baxter - Jane's Sister
1934
Mixed Nuts (Short) as
Mrs. Twitchett
1934
Search for Beauty as
Miss Pettigrew
1933
Going Hollywood as
Briarcroft's Teacher (uncredited)
1933
Design for Living as
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
1933
Meet the Baron as
Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
1933
Stage Mother as
Miss Gilford - Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
1933
Doctor Bull as
Aunt Emily Banning
1933
Hold Your Man as
Miss Campbell (uncredited)
1933
Melody Cruise as
First Gossip (uncredited)
1933
Peg o' My Heart as
Smythe (maid)
1933
The Little Giant as
Ahern's Maid (uncredited)
1933
Nature in the Wrong (Short) as
Muriel's mother (uncredited)
1933
The White Sister as
Preaching Nun at Meal (uncredited)
1933
Fast Workers as
Tall Window-Shopper (uncredited)
1933
Wreckety Wrecks (Short) as
Miss Winterbottom
1933
Asleep in the Feet (Short) as
Female Police Officer (uncredited)
1933
King of the Jungle as
Spinster in Park (uncredited)
1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen as
Missionary (uncredited)
1932
Mr. Bride (Short) as
Mrs. Cecil (uncredited)
1932
Hot Saturday as
Gossip on Telephone (uncredited)
1932
The Millionaire Cat (Short) as
Aunt Mathilda
1932
Girl Grief (Short) as
Miss Tuttle, Principal
1932
That's My Boy as
Concerned Mother / Athens Townswoman (uncredited)
1932
Pack Up Your Troubles as
Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
1932
Week Ends Only as
Mrs. Watson, Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Amateur Daddy as
Saleslady (uncredited)
1932
Young Bride as
Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Big Dame Hunting (Short)
1932
Stepping Sisters as
Prosperity (uncredited)
1932
Forbidden as
Chambermaid on Phone (uncredited)
1931
Arrowsmith as
Nurse (uncredited)
1931
A Melon-Drama (Short)
1931
The Sin of Madelon Claudet as
Nasty Prison Nun (uncredited)
1931
False Roomers (Short) as
Mrs. Simpson
1931
The Ruling Voice as
Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
1931
Street Scene as
Alice Simpson
1931
Caught Plastered as
Miss Loring (uncredited)
1931
Everything's Rosie as
Hotel Proprietress (uncredited)
1931
East Lynne as
Charity Bazaar Committee (uncredited)
1931
Millie as
Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
1931
Misbehaving Ladies as
Minor Role (uncredited)
1930
Only Saps Work as
Mrs. Partridge
1930
Outward Bound as
Third Gossip (uncredited)
1930
Little Accident as
Dr. Zernecke
1930
Hell's Angels as
Helen's Maid (uncredited)
1930
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu as
Curious Passerby at Fu's Funeral (uncredited)
1930
Seven Days Leave as
Amelia Twymley
1929
Footlights and Fools (uncredited)
1929
Seven Footprints to Satan as
Old Witch
1928
The Cavalier as
Lucia's Aunt
1928
Driftwood as
Mrs. Prouty
1928
The Baby Cyclone as
Mrs. Crandall
1928
The Big City as
Landlady (uncredited)
1928
A Trick of Hearts as
The Mayor
1927
The Devil Dancer as
Julia
1927
Born to Battle as
Ma Cowan
1927
Too Many Crooks as
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1927
Girls (Short) as
Matron Helen Hunt
1927
Sensation Seekers as
Mrs. Lodge
1927
The Demi-Bride as
School Teacher
1927
The Fortune Hunter as
Betty Carpenter
1927
The Silent Rider as
Mrs. Randall
1926
Honeymoon Hospital (Short) as
Ernie's 2nd Aunt
1926
The Scarlet Letter as
Townswoman (uncredited)
1926
The Passionate Quest as
Mrs.Flint
1926
A Lickpenny Lover (Short)
1926
Midnight Faces as
Mrs. Hart
1926
Chip of the Flying U as
Dr. Cecil Grantham
1925
Tumbleweeds as
Pioneer Mother (uncredited)
1925
Strong for Love (Short)
1925
His Majesty, Bunker Bean as
Countess Casanova
1925
Lightnin' as
Passerby in Buggy (uncredited)
1924
The Deadwood Coach as
Matilda Shields - in play
1924
Darwin Was Right as
Aunt Priscilla
1924
Butterfly as
Neighbor / Party Guest (uncredited)
1924
That French Lady as
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1922
The Town That Forgot God (uncredited)
1922
Manslaughter as
Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
1922
Timothy's Quest as
Townswoman (uncredited)
1921
Footfalls (uncredited)
1921
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby (uncredited)
1920
The Daughter Pays (uncredited)
1920
Red Foam as
Undetermined Role
1919
Behind the Door as
Townswoman (uncredited)
1919
Piccadilly Jim (uncredited)
1919
Miss Crusoe as
Miss Meeker (uncredited)
1919
An Amateur Widow (uncredited)
1919
Woman, Woman! as
Mrs. Lindsay (uncredited)
1918
The Love Net as
Miss Prudence Tilly
1918
The Zero Hour as
Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
1918
Appearance of Evil as
Miss Spurgeon
1918
By Hook or Crook as
Aunt Marie
1918
The Power and the Glory as
Mandy Meacham (uncredited)
1918
Prunella as
Privacy
1918
American Buds as
Emily
1917
The Wild Girl as
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1917
The Little Duchess as
Orphanage Matron (as Nora Cecile)
1917
A Royal Romance as
Miss McPherson
1917
The Poor Little Rich Girl as
One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
1917
Tillie Wakes Up as
Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken (uncredited)
1916
The Social Secretary as
Spinster (uncredited)
1916
A Stranger in His Own Home (Short) as
Jane's Mother (as Miss Cecil)
1916
The Model Husband (Short) as
Mrs. Gossip
1915
The Arrival of Perpetua as
Abigail Majendrie
1915
Alias Jimmy Valentine as
Nurse (uncredited)
Archive Footage
1986
The Laurel and Hardy Show (TV Series) as
Welfare officer (1986)
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy (Documentary) as
Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (uncredited)
1947
Hollywood Bound as
Edited from: Ferry-Go-Round
References
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