Nora Cecil
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1878-09-24
Place of birth
London, England, UK
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Cast
Night of Mystery
1937
0.00
Big Town
1946
4.80
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
1925
0.00
Seven Footprints to Satan
1929
6.10
The Deadwood Coach
1924
0.00
The Wild Girl
1917
0.00
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
7.09
The Silent Rider
1927
0.00
The Demi-Bride
1927
0.00
Three Smart Boys
1937
6.50
A Royal Romance
1917
0.00
Manslaughter
1922
5.17
Night Must Fall
1937
6.90
Under Your Spell
1936
7.00
Nature in the Wrong
1933
0.00
A Trick of Hearts
1928
0.00
The Devil Dancer
1927
5.00
Arrowsmith
1931
6.60
Mixed Nuts
1934
6.20
Lady on a Train
1945
6.63
Seven Days Leave
1930
7.00
Laughing Boy
1934
3.17
Footfalls
1921
0.00
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
1938
5.10
College Holiday
1936
5.20
Girl Grief
1932
5.00
Little Miss Nobody
1936
6.00
Car 99
1935
5.00
Partners in Crime
1937
0.00
Search for Beauty
1934
5.27
The Unknown Guest
1943
0.00
Asleep in the Feet
1933
1.00
American Buds
1918
0.00
She Asked for It
1937
6.00
The Daughter Pays
1920
0.00
What a Life
1939
0.00
The Poor Little Rich Girl
1917
5.70
Peg o' My Heart
1933
4.40
Chip of the Flying U
1926
0.00
Sensation Seekers
1927
6.40
One-Horse Farmers
1934
0.00
Opened by Mistake
1934
0.00
Easy Living
1937
7.10
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1944
6.80
Hot Saturday
1932
6.40
Slightly Static
1935
0.00
Going Hollywood
1933
5.30
Way Down East
1935
3.00
East Lynne
1931
6.20
The Bank Dick
1940
6.49
Stage Mother
1933
5.00
Only Saps Work
1930
5.50
King of the Jungle
1933
5.00
Everything’s Rosie
1931
4.00
Stagecoach
1939
7.62
Union Pacific
1939
6.60
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930
5.25
Fury
1936
7.45
International Settlement
1938
5.60
Fast Workers
1933
4.70
Some Like It Hot
1939
7.17
Design for Living
1933
7.10
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947
6.05
Amateur Daddy
1932
0.00
The Fortune Hunter
1927
0.00
The Sea of Grass
1947
6.10
The Social Secretary
1916
5.60
Tillie Wakes Up
1917
6.00
Timothy's Quest
1922
6.50
Two in the Dark
1936
5.90
Wreckety Wrecks
1933
0.00
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
4.80
Lucky Partners
1940
6.00
Little Men
1940
5.60
Young People
1940
4.60
Champagne Waltz
1937
0.00
Nothing Sacred
1937
6.30
Meet the Baron
1933
4.20
The Big Broadcast of 1937
1936
5.40
The Merry Widow
1934
6.80
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
7.10
Doctor Bull
1933
6.50
I Married a Witch
1942
6.84
Mr. Bride
1932
5.50
Three Girls About Town
1941
5.30
Apache Trail
1942
6.40
Footlights and Fools
1929
0.00
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
4.50
The Ruling Voice
1931
6.00
Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935
6.30
A Model Husband
1916
5.00
Little Accident
1930
0.00
Obliging Young Lady
1942
5.00
Hell's Angels
1930
6.40
Memories and Melodies
1935
0.00
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935
6.40
Young Bride
1932
3.60
Street Scene
1931
6.72
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
6.70
Girls
1927
3.33
Chained
1934
6.80
Borrowing Trouble
1937
6.00
You're Telling Me!
1934
6.25
The Baby Cyclone
1928
0.00
The Spectacle Maker
1934
5.60
The Mighty Treve
1937
6.00
The Cavalier
1928
0.00
Prunella
1918
0.00
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
6.30
Midnight Faces
1926
4.50
Bachelor Bait
1934
5.70
Millie
1931
5.10
Blossoms On Broadway
1937
3.67
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
6.00
Dancing Pirate
1936
5.50
The Missing Lady
1946
4.64
Let's Make a Million
1936
0.00
Too Many Crooks
1927
0.00
Collegiate
1936
0.00
Love Net
1918
0.00
By Hook or Crook
1918
0.00
Vagabond Lady
1935
7.20
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
6.20
The Arrival of Perpetua
1915
0.00
Red Foam
1920
0.00
An Amateur Widow
1919
0.00
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
7.06
Hold Your Man
1933
6.10
Driftwood
1928
0.00
Laughing at Trouble
1936
6.00
Woman, Woman!
1919
0.00
Once to Every Woman
1934
6.00
Those Were the Days!
1940
0.00
Girl of the Ozarks
1936
6.00
The Millionaire Cat
1932
0.00
Born to Battle
1927
0.00
Upperworld
1934
6.30
The Town That Forgot God
1922
0.00
Appearance of Evil
1918
0.00
The Zero Hour
1918
0.00
Darwin Was Right
1924
0.00
Miss Crusoe
1919
0.00