Nora Cecil
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
ActingBirthday
September 24, 1878Deathday
May 1, 1951Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
121Place of birth
London, England, UKAlso known as
Norah Cecile, Nora Cecile
Cast credits
The Thin Man Goes Home
Miss Peavy
Mixed Nuts
Mrs. Twitchett
The Devil Dancer
Julia
Seven Days Leave
Amelia Twymley
Laughing Boy
Schoolteacher
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Widow Peddie
Girl Grief
Miss Tuttle, Principal
College Holiday
Miss Elkins (uncredited)
Little Miss Nobody
Mrs. Robinson
Car 99
Granny Adams
Search for Beauty
Miss Pettigrew
Asleep in the Feet
Female Police Officer
What a Life
Miss Eggleston
Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham
Sensation Seekers
Mrs. Lodge
Peg o' My Heart
Smythe (maid)
The Poor Little Rich Girl
One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
Easy Living
Miss Swerf
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)Images
