Nora Cecil
Born in London, England, UK — Sep 24 1878• Died May 01 1951
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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…
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Nora Cecil's Credits
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Stagecoach
Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
Union Pacific
Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
Lady on a Train
Hell's Angels
Helen's Maid (uncredited)
Design for Living
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Laughing at Trouble
Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
The Sea of Grass
Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
Fury
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
Two Sisters from Boston
Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
Upperworld
Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
Young People
Righteous Old Lady
Apache Trail
Passenger (uncredited)
Easy Living
Miss Swerf
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Miss Jenkins
Nothing Sacred
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Pack Up Your Troubles
Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
International Settlement
English Woman
Arrowsmith
Nurse (uncredited)
Amateur Daddy
Saleslady
Way Down East
Townswoman at Party
Street Scene
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Manslaughter
Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
Hail the Conquering Hero
Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
Ship's Matron (uncredited)
College Holiday
Miss Elkins (uncredited)
Only Saps Work
Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Charwoman
Night Must Fall
Dancing Pirate
Landlady (uncredited)
Little Men
Head of Orphanage
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
The Merry Widow
Animal Woman (uncredited)
The Bank Dick
Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
The Mighty Treve
Old Maid at Dog Show
Once to Every Woman
Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
Vagabond Lady
Miss Perkins (uncredited)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
Doctor Bull
Aunt Emily Banning
Peg o' My Heart
Smythe (maid)
What a Life
Miss Eggleston
Obliging Young Lady
Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
The Cavalier
Lucia's Aunt
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Miss Updike
Hold Your Man
Miss Campbell (uncredited)
Car 99
Granny Adams
Millie
Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
Fast Workers
Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
The Demi-Bride
School Teacher
Little Accident
Dr. Zernecke
Bachelor Bait
Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
Girl Grief
Miss Tuttle, Principal
Chained
Edith (uncredited)
Laughing Boy
Schoolteacher
Stage Mother
Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
Two in the Dark
Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
Going Hollywood
Briarcroft's Teacher
King of the Jungle
Spinster in park (uncredited)
Hot Saturday
Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
The Poor Little Rich Girl
One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
Blossoms On Broadway
Leader of Committee (uncredited)
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Home Economics Woman
Those Were the Days!
Mrs. Moffett
Mourning Becomes Electra
Louisa Ames
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Missionary
The Thin Man Goes Home
Miss Peavy
Mr. Bride
Mrs. Cecil
Tillie Wakes Up
Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
Footfalls
Gold Diggers of 1935
Housekeeper (uncredited)
East Lynne
Charity Bazaar Committee
Let's Make a Million
Seven Footprints to Satan
Old Witch
Young Bride
Landlady (uncredited)
Three Girls About Town
Casket Customer
Driftwood
Mrs. Prouty
The Wild Girl
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Miss Crusoe
Miss Meeker (uncredited)
Big Town
Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
The Spectacle Maker
Duchess
Footlights and Fools
(uncredited)
The Old-Fashioned Way
Mrs. Wendelschaffer
The Devil Dancer
Julia
Lucky Partners
Women's Club President (uncredited)
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Countess Casanova
The Unknown Guest
Martha Williams
Champagne Waltz
Train Passenger
Woman, Woman!
Mrs. Lindsay
The Missing Lady
Miss Millie
Under Your Spell
School Teacher (uncredited)
The Baby Cyclone
Mrs. Crandall
The Social Secretary
Spinster (uncredited)
Partners in Crime
Housekeeper
Nature in the Wrong
Muriel's mother
Collegiate
Miss Curtiss
Search for Beauty
Miss Pettigrew
Too Many Crooks
(uncredited)
Some Like It Hot
Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
Opened by Mistake
Head Nurse
Asleep in the Feet
Female Police Officer
Love Net
Miss Prudence Tilly
Girls
Matron Helen Hunt
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Little Miss Nobody
Mrs. Robinson
You're Telling Me!
Mrs. Price
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Widow Peddie
Meet the Baron
Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
Everything’s Rosie
Hotel Proprietress
A Trick of Hearts
The Mayor
Midnight Faces
Mrs. Hart
The Daughter Pays
Seven Days Leave
Amelia Twymley
The Arrival of Perpetua
Abigail Majendrie
Red Foam
Night of Mystery
Sensation Seekers
Mrs. Lodge
American Buds
Emily
The Ruling Voice
Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
Three Smart Boys
Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
Girl of the Ozarks
Miss Trent
Mixed Nuts
Mrs. Twitchett
The Fortune Hunter
Betty Carpenter
The Millionaire Cat
Aunt Mathilda
A Royal Romance
Miss McPherson
Slightly Static
Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham
Memories and Melodies
Customer (uncredited)
The Deadwood Coach
Matilda Shields - in play
Timothy's Quest
Townswoman
Borrowing Trouble
Dressmaker
An Amateur Widow
Prunella
Wreckety Wrecks
Miss Winterbottom
The Zero Hour
Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
The Silent Rider
Mrs. Randall
One-Horse Farmers
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
By Hook or Crook
Aunt Marie
Appearance of Evil
Miss Spurgeon
A Model Husband
Mrs Gossip
She Asked for It
Elderly lady (uncredited)
Born to Battle
Ma Cowan
Darwin Was Right
Aunt Priscilla
The Town That Forgot God
(uncredited)