
Nora Cecil
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 …
Known For
Stagecoach
Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
Fury
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Design for Living
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
The Thin Man Goes Home
Miss Peavy
The Bank Dick
Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
Hail the Conquering Hero
Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
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Filmography
Acting (144)
Movies (144)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964as Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Sea of Grass
1947as Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947as Louisa Ames
The Missing Lady
1946as Miss Millie
Two Sisters from Boston
1946as Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
Big Town
1946as Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
Lady on a Train
1945
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944as Miss Peavy
The Unknown Guest
1943as Martha Williams
I Married a Witch
1942as Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
Obliging Young Lady
1942as Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
Apache Trail
1942as Passenger (uncredited)
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942as Miss Updike
Three Girls About Town
1941as Casket Customer
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941as Charwoman
Young People
1940as Righteous Old Lady
Little Men
1940as Head of Orphanage
The Bank Dick
1940as Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
Lucky Partners
1940as Women's Club President (uncredited)
Those Were the Days!
1940as Mrs. Moffett
Stagecoach
1939as Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
What a Life
1939as Miss Eggleston
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939as Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939as Miss Jenkins
Some Like It Hot
1939as Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
Union Pacific
1939as Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
1938as Widow Peddie
International Settlement
1938as English Woman
Three Smart Boys
1937as Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
Nothing Sacred
1937as Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Champagne Waltz
1937as Train Passenger
Night Must Fall
1937
Easy Living
1937as Miss Swerf
Night of Mystery
1937
The Mighty Treve
1937as Old Maid at Dog Show
Blossoms On Broadway
1937as Leader of Committee (uncredited)
Partners in Crime
1937as Housekeeper
Borrowing Trouble
1937as Dressmaker
She Asked for It
1937as Elderly lady (uncredited)
Under Your Spell
1936as School Teacher (uncredited)
Fury
1936as Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Laughing at Trouble
1936as Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
Collegiate
1936as Miss Curtiss
College Holiday
1936as Miss Elkins (uncredited)
Little Miss Nobody
1936as Mrs. Robinson
Girl of the Ozarks
1936as Miss Trent
Two in the Dark
1936as Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
Dancing Pirate
1936as Landlady (uncredited)
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936as Home Economics Woman
Let's Make a Million
1936
Memories and Melodies
1935as Customer (uncredited)
Way Down East
1935as Townswoman at Party
Car 99
1935as Granny Adams
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935as Housekeeper (uncredited)
Slightly Static
1935as Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
Vagabond Lady
1935as Miss Perkins (uncredited)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935as Ship's Matron (uncredited)
Bachelor Bait
1934as Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
Upperworld
1934as Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
One-Horse Farmers
1934as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Mixed Nuts
1934as Mrs. Twitchett
Chained
1934as Edith (uncredited)
The Merry Widow
1934as Animal Woman (uncredited)
Opened by Mistake
1934as Head Nurse
You're Telling Me!
1934as Mrs. Price
Once to Every Woman
1934as Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934as Mrs. Wendelschaffer
The Spectacle Maker
1934as Duchess
Search for Beauty
1934as Miss Pettigrew
Laughing Boy
1934as Schoolteacher
Hold Your Man
1933as Miss Campbell (uncredited)
Nature in the Wrong
1933as Muriel's mother
Asleep in the Feet
1933as Female Police Officer
Design for Living
1933as Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
Going Hollywood
1933as Briarcroft's Teacher
Wreckety Wrecks
1933as Miss Winterbottom
King of the Jungle
1933as Spinster in park (uncredited)
Doctor Bull
1933as Aunt Emily Banning
Peg o' My Heart
1933as Smythe (maid)
Fast Workers
1933as Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
Stage Mother
1933as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
Meet the Baron
1933as Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
Mr. Bride
1932as Mrs. Cecil
Girl Grief
1932as Miss Tuttle, Principal
Hot Saturday
1932as Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
Amateur Daddy
1932as Saleslady
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932as Missionary
Young Bride
1932as Landlady (uncredited)
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932as Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
The Millionaire Cat
1932as Aunt Mathilda
The Ruling Voice
1931as Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
Arrowsmith
1931as Nurse (uncredited)
Street Scene
1931as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
East Lynne
1931as Charity Bazaar Committee
Millie
1931as Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
Everything’s Rosie
1931as Hotel Proprietress
Hell's Angels
1930as Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Only Saps Work
1930as Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
Seven Days Leave
1930as Amelia Twymley
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930
Little Accident
1930as Dr. Zernecke
Seven Footprints to Satan
1929as Old Witch
Footlights and Fools
1929as (uncredited)
The Cavalier
1928as Lucia's Aunt
The Baby Cyclone
1928as Mrs. Crandall
Driftwood
1928as Mrs. Prouty
A Trick of Hearts
1928as The Mayor
The Devil Dancer
1927as Julia
Sensation Seekers
1927as Mrs. Lodge
The Demi-Bride
1927as School Teacher
The Silent Rider
1927as Mrs. Randall
The Fortune Hunter
1927as Betty Carpenter
Too Many Crooks
1927as (uncredited)
Girls
1927as Matron Helen Hunt
Born to Battle
1927as Ma Cowan
Midnight Faces
1926as Mrs. Hart
Chip of the Flying U
1926as Dr. Cecil Grantham
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
1925as Countess Casanova
The Deadwood Coach
1924as Matilda Shields - in play
Darwin Was Right
1924as Aunt Priscilla
Manslaughter
1922as Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
The Town That Forgot God
1922as (uncredited)
Timothy's Quest
1922as Townswoman
Footfalls
1921
The Daughter Pays
1920
Red Foam
1920An Amateur Widow
1919
Woman, Woman!
1919as Mrs. Lindsay
Miss Crusoe
1919as Miss Meeker (uncredited)
Love Net
1918as Miss Prudence Tilly
By Hook or Crook
1918as Aunt Marie
Appearance of Evil
1918as Miss Spurgeon
Prunella
1918
American Buds
1918as Emily
The Zero Hour
1918as Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
Tillie Wakes Up
1917as Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
The Poor Little Rich Girl
1917as One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
A Royal Romance
1917as Miss McPherson
The Wild Girl
1917as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
A Model Husband
1916as Mrs Gossip
The Social Secretary
1916as Spinster (uncredited)
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915as Abigail Majendrie
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