Nora Cecil

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

144

Gender

Female

Birthday

1878-09-24

Day of death

1951-05-01 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

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 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.

Known For

  • Doctor Bull

    Doctor Bull

  • King of the Jungle

    King of the Jungle

  • Sensation Seekers

    Sensation Seekers

  • Lady on a Train

    Lady on a Train

  • Little Men

    Little Men

  • Mr. Bride

    Mr. Bride

  • Collegiate

    Collegiate

  • Bachelor Bait

    Bachelor Bait

  • Three Girls About Town

    Three Girls About Town

  • Mixed Nuts

    Mixed Nuts

  • I Married a Witch

    I Married a Witch

  • Footfalls

    Footfalls

  • Young People

    Young People

  • Night of Mystery

    Night of Mystery

  • The Unknown Guest

    The Unknown Guest

  • Girl Grief

    Girl Grief

  • Street Scene

    Street Scene

  • Hell's Angels

    Hell's Angels

  • Footlights and Fools

    Footlights and Fools

  • Little Miss Nobody

    Little Miss Nobody

  • Upperworld

    Upperworld

  • Seven Days Leave

    Seven Days Leave

  • The Bank Dick

    The Bank Dick

  • Way Down East

    Way Down East

  • The Millionaire Cat

    The Millionaire Cat

  • By Hook or Crook

    By Hook or Crook

  • Stagecoach

    Stagecoach

  • Young Bride

    Young Bride

  • Manslaughter

    Manslaughter

  • Girl of the Ozarks

    Girl of the Ozarks

  • The Wild Girl

    The Wild Girl

  • Hot Saturday

    Hot Saturday

  • You're Telling Me!

    You're Telling Me!

  • An Amateur Widow

    An Amateur Widow

  • Opened by Mistake

    Opened by Mistake

  • The Demi-Bride

    The Demi-Bride

  • Car 99

    Car 99

  • Obliging Young Lady

    Obliging Young Lady

  • Some Like It Hot

    Some Like It Hot

  • Wreckety Wrecks

    Wreckety Wrecks

  • The Social Secretary

    The Social Secretary

  • The Fortune Hunter

    The Fortune Hunter

  • Woman, Woman!

    Woman, Woman!

  • Fury

    Fury

  • The Sea of Grass

    The Sea of Grass

  • Design for Living

    Design for Living

  • The Thin Man Goes Home

    The Thin Man Goes Home

  • Blossoms On Broadway

    Blossoms On Broadway

  • Pack Up Your Troubles

    Pack Up Your Troubles

  • Union Pacific

    Union Pacific

  • Prunella

    Prunella

  • Nothing Sacred

    Nothing Sacred

  • The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

  • Hail the Conquering Hero

    Hail the Conquering Hero

  • The Town That Forgot God

    The Town That Forgot God

  • Amateur Daddy

    Amateur Daddy

  • The Cavalier

    The Cavalier

  • The Big Parade of Comedy

    The Big Parade of Comedy

  • Arrowsmith

    Arrowsmith

  • The Bitter Tea of General Yen

    The Bitter Tea of General Yen

  • Borrowing Trouble

    Borrowing Trouble

  • Stage Mother

    Stage Mother

  • Partners in Crime

    Partners in Crime

  • What a Life

    What a Life

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • Millie

    Millie

  • The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

    The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

  • The Merry Widow

    The Merry Widow

  • Lucky Partners

    Lucky Partners

  • The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

    The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

  • Easy Living

    Easy Living

  • The Missing Lady

    The Missing Lady

  • Chained

    Chained

  • Gold Diggers of 1935

    Gold Diggers of 1935

  • Two in the Dark

    Two in the Dark

  • Appearance of Evil

    Appearance of Evil

  • Those Were the Days!

    Those Were the Days!

  • Champagne Waltz

    Champagne Waltz

  • Tillie Wakes Up

    Tillie Wakes Up

  • Mourning Becomes Electra

    Mourning Becomes Electra

  • Once to Every Woman

    Once to Every Woman

  • Fast Workers

    Fast Workers

  • Little Accident

    Little Accident

  • Too Many Crooks

    Too Many Crooks

  • International Settlement

    International Settlement

  • Night Must Fall

    Night Must Fall

  • Vagabond Lady

    Vagabond Lady

  • The Big Broadcast of 1937

    The Big Broadcast of 1937

  • Only Saps Work

    Only Saps Work

  • Hold Your Man

    Hold Your Man

  • Going Hollywood

    Going Hollywood

  • Love Net

    Love Net

  • Laughing Boy

    Laughing Boy

  • College Holiday

    College Holiday

  • A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

    A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

  • Two Sisters from Boston

    Two Sisters from Boston

  • Search for Beauty

    Search for Beauty

  • Laughing at Trouble

    Laughing at Trouble

  • Biography of a Bachelor Girl

    Biography of a Bachelor Girl

  • Meet the Baron

    Meet the Baron

  • Apache Trail

    Apache Trail

  • The Wife Takes a Flyer

    The Wife Takes a Flyer

  • Dancing Pirate

    Dancing Pirate

  • Girls

    Girls

  • The Old-Fashioned Way

    The Old-Fashioned Way

  • The Silent Rider

    The Silent Rider

  • Under Your Spell

    Under Your Spell

  • The Poor Little Rich Girl

    The Poor Little Rich Girl

  • Peg o' My Heart

    Peg o' My Heart

  • Mr. Boggs Steps Out

    Mr. Boggs Steps Out

  • She Asked for It

    She Asked for It

  • The Mighty Treve

    The Mighty Treve

  • Chip of the Flying U

    Chip of the Flying U

  • Everything’s Rosie

    Everything’s Rosie

  • Asleep in the Feet

    Asleep in the Feet

  • The Spectacle Maker

    The Spectacle Maker

  • His Majesty, Bunker Bean

    His Majesty, Bunker Bean

  • Slightly Static

    Slightly Static

  • The Baby Cyclone

    The Baby Cyclone

  • The Devil Dancer

    The Devil Dancer

  • East Lynne

    East Lynne

  • Let's Make a Million

    Let's Make a Million

  • The Deadwood Coach

    The Deadwood Coach

  • Midnight Faces

    Midnight Faces

  • Big Town

    Big Town

  • Three Smart Boys

    Three Smart Boys

  • The Arrival of Perpetua

    The Arrival of Perpetua

  • A Royal Romance

    A Royal Romance

  • Seven Footprints to Satan

    Seven Footprints to Satan

  • The Daughter Pays

    The Daughter Pays

  • Darwin Was Right

    Darwin Was Right

  • The Ruling Voice

    The Ruling Voice

  • Nature in the Wrong

    Nature in the Wrong

  • One-Horse Farmers

    One-Horse Farmers

  • Driftwood

    Driftwood

  • Timothy's Quest

    Timothy's Quest

  • American Buds

    American Buds

  • A Trick of Hearts

    A Trick of Hearts

  • Memories and Melodies

    Memories and Melodies

  • Born to Battle

    Born to Battle

  • A Model Husband

    A Model Husband

  • Red Foam

    Red Foam

  • The Zero Hour

    The Zero Hour

  • Miss Crusoe

    Miss Crusoe