Nora Cecil (1878–1951)

Actress

Nora Cecil was born on September 26, 1878 in London, England. She was an actress, known for Street ...

Born: September 26, 1878
Died: May 1, 1951 (age 72)

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Filmography

Known For

Street Scene Alice Simpson (1931)
Midnight Faces Mrs. Hart (1926)
Seven Days Leave Amelia Twymley (1930)
Known For

His Majesty, Bunker Bean Countess Casanova (1925)
Actress

Mourning Becomes Electra Louisa Ames (1947)
The Sea of Grass Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (1947)
No Leave, No Love Indignant Onlooker at Hotel Desk (1946)
Big Town Miss Lovelace (1946)
The Missing Lady Miss Millie (1946)
Two Sisters from Boston Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (1946)
Johnny Comes Flying Home Bank Customer (1946)
The Kid from Brooklyn Woman in Window (1946)
Lady on a Train Woman with Umbrella and Radio (1945)
Molly and Me Clerk at Domestic Service Agency (1945)
Together Again Woman at Recital (1944)
The Thin Man Goes Home Miss Peavy (1944)
Hail the Conquering Hero Train Ticket Clerk (1944)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Head Nurse (1944)
The Unknown Guest Martha Williams (1943)
Two Weeks to Live Grandma Masters (1943)
Calaboose Irate Woman in Car (1943)
I Married a Witch Harriet Wooley (1942)
The Daring Young Man Matron (1942)
Apache Trail Stagecoach Passenger (1942)
Tish Spinster (1942)
The Wife Takes a Flyer Miss Updike (1942)
Jail House Blues Matron (1942)
Call Out the Marines Elderly Lady with Glasses (1942)
Three Girls About Town Casket Customer (1941)
It Started with Eve Mrs. Fields - Hotel Guest (1941)
Unexpected Uncle Muriel (1941)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob Charwoman (1941)
Little Men Head of Orphanage (1940)
The Bank Dick Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (1940)
Hit Parade of 1941 Trader (1940)
Young People Righteous Old Lady (1940)
Lucky Partners Women's Club President (1940)
Queen of the Mob Mission Worker (1940)
Anne of Windy Poplars Miss Blecker (1940)
The Captain Is a Lady Lady Buying Groceries (1940)
Those Were the Days! Mrs. Moffett (1940)
On Their Own (1940)
What a Life Miss Eggleston (1939)
Some Like It Hot Mrs. Beckett (1939)
Union Pacific Snoring Woman on Train (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell Miss Jenkins (1939)
Stagecoach Boone's Landlady (1939)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mrs. Shackleford (1939)
St. Louis Blues Storekeeper (1939)
King of Alcatraz Nora Kane (1938)
No Time to Marry Rusty's Aunt (1938)
International Settlement English Woman (1938)
Mr. Boggs Steps Out Widow Peddie (1938)
The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble Dressmaker (1937)
Nothing Sacred Schoolteacher (1937)
Blossoms on Broadway Leader of Committee (1937)
Partners in Crime Housekeeper (1937)
She Asked for It Elderly lady (1937)
Easy Living Miss Swerf (1937)
Night of Mystery Hemming (1937)
Three Smart Boys Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent (1937)
Night Must Fall Woman in Tour (1937)
Champagne Waltz Train Passenger (1937)
The Mighty Treve Old Maid at Dog Show (1937)
College Holiday Miss Elkins (1936)
Career Woman Witness--New York (1936)
Let's Make a Million (1936)
Laughing at Trouble Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman (1936)
Under Your Spell School Teacher (1936)
The Big Broadcast of 1937 Home Economics Woman (1936)
Girl of the Ozarks Miss Trent (1936)
Little Miss Nobody Mrs. Robinson (1936)
Fury Albert's Mother (1936)
Dancing Pirate Landlady (1936)
Collegiate Miss Curtiss (1936)
Two in the Dark Mrs. Potter - Landlady (1936)
Grand Exit Miss Appleby, Third Secretary (1935)
Way Down East Townswoman at Party (1935)
Slightly Static Beauty Products Announcer (1935)
Memories and Melodies Customer (1935)
Vagabond Lady Miss Perkins - Spear Office Worker (1935)
Gold Diggers of 1935 Housekeeper (1935)
Car 99 Granny Adams (1935)
Biography of a Bachelor Girl Ship's Matron (1935)
Ferry-Go-Round Bit Role (1934)
6 Day Bike Rider Choir Leader (1934)
The Merry Widow Animal Woman (1934)
Opened by Mistake Head Nurse (1934)
The Spectacle Maker Duchess (1934)
Chained Edith - a Shipboard Spinster (1934)
Pursued Tourist Welfare Worker (1934)
One-Horse Farmers Subway Passenger (1934)
Bachelor Bait Mrs. Trutmanner - President of the Window Box Horticulturists (1934)
The Old Fashioned Way Mrs. Wendelschaffer (1934)
Hollywood Party Scientific Pedant (1934)
Upperworld Stream's Housekeeper (1934)
Laughing Boy Teacher (1934)
Glamour Nurse (1934)
Apples to You! Opera Patron in Box with Announcer (1934)
You're Telling Me! Mrs. Price (1934)
Once to Every Woman Elizabeth Baxter - Jane's Sister (1934)
Mixed Nuts Mrs. Twitchett (1934)
Search for Beauty Miss Pettigrew (1934)
Going Hollywood Briarcroft's Teacher (1933)
Design for Living Tom's Secretary (1933)
Meet the Baron Professor Winterbottom (1933)
Stage Mother Miss Gilford - Kitty's Music Store Boss (1933)
Doctor Bull Aunt Emily Banning (1933)
Hold Your Man Miss Campbell (1933)
Melody Cruise First Gossip (1933)
Peg o' My Heart Smythe (maid) (1933)
The Little Giant Ahern's Maid (1933)
Nature in the Wrong Muriel's mother (1933)
The White Sister Preaching Nun at Meal (1933)
Fast Workers Tall Window-Shopper (1933)
Wreckety Wrecks Miss Winterbottom (1933)
Asleep in the Feet Female Police Officer (1933)
King of the Jungle Spinster in Park (1933)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen Missionary (1932)
Mr. Bride Mrs. Cecil (1932)
Hot Saturday Gossip on Telephone (1932)
The Millionaire Cat Aunt Mathilda (1932)
Girl Grief Miss Tuttle, Principal (1932)
That's My Boy Concerned Mother / Athens Townswoman (1932)
Pack Up Your Troubles Welfare Association Officer (1932)
Week Ends Only Mrs. Watson, Landlady (1932)
Amateur Daddy Saleslady (1932)
Young Bride Landlady (1932)
Big Dame Hunting (1932)
Stepping Sisters Prosperity (1932)
Forbidden Chambermaid on Phone (1932)
Arrowsmith Nurse (1931)
A Melon-Drama (1931)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet Nasty Prison Nun (1931)
False Roomers Mrs. Simpson (1931)
The Ruling Voice Malcom's Nurse (1931)
Street Scene Alice Simpson (1931)
Caught Plastered Miss Loring (1931)
Everything's Rosie Hotel Proprietress (1931)
Misbehaving Ladies Minor Role (1931)
East Lynne Charity Bazaar Committee (1931)
Millie Helen and Angie's Landlady (1931)
Only Saps Work Mrs. Partridge (1930)
Outward Bound Third Gossip (1930)
Little Accident Dr. Zernecke (1930)
Hell's Angels Helen's Maid (1930)
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu Curious Passerby at Fu's Funeral (1930)
Seven Days Leave Amelia Twymley (1930)
Footlights and Fools (1929)
Seven Footprints to Satan Old Witch (1929)
The Cavalier Lucia's Aunt (1928)
Driftwood Mrs. Prouty (1928)
The Baby Cyclone Mrs. Crandall (1928)
The Big City Landlady (1928)
A Trick of Hearts The Mayor (1928)
The Devil Dancer Julia (1927)
Born to Battle Ma Cowan (1927)
Too Many Crooks (1927)
Girls Matron Helen Hunt (1927)
Sensation Seekers Mrs. Lodge (1927)
The Demi-Bride School Teacher (1927)
The Fortune Hunter Betty Carpenter (1927)
The Silent Rider Mrs. Randall (1927)
Honeymoon Hospital Ernie's 2nd Aunt (1926)
The Scarlet Letter Townswoman (1926)
The Passionate Quest Mrs.Flint (1926)
A Lickpenny Lover (1926)
Midnight Faces Mrs. Hart (1926)
Chip of the Flying U Dr. Cecil Grantham (1926)
Born to Battle (1926)
His Majesty, Bunker Bean Countess Casanova (1925)
Lightnin' Passerby in Buggy (1925)
The Deadwood Coach Matilda Shields - in play (1924)
Darwin Was Right Aunt Priscilla (1924)
Butterfly Neighbor / Party Guest (1924)
That French Lady Undetermined Secondary Role (1924)
The Town That Forgot God (1922)
Manslaughter Lydia's Chaperone (1922)
Timothy's Quest Townswoman (1922)
Footfalls (1921)
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby (1921)
The Daughter Pays (1920)
Red Foam Undetermined Role (1920)
Behind the Door Townswoman (1919)
Piccadilly Jim (1919)
Miss Crusoe Miss Meeker (1919)
An Amateur Widow (1919)
Woman, Woman! Mrs. Lindsay (1919)
The Love Net Miss Prudence Tilly (1918)
The Zero Hour Mrs. Winslow (1918)
Appearance of Evil Miss Spurgeon (1918)
By Hook or Crook Aunt Marie (1918)
The Power and the Glory Mandy Meacham (1918)
Prunella Privacy (1918)
American Buds Emily (1918)
The Wild Girl Undetermined Role (1917)
The Little Duchess Orphanage Matron (1917)
A Royal Romance Miss McPherson (1917)
The Poor Little Rich Girl One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (1917)
Tillie Wakes Up Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken (1917)
The Social Secretary Spinster (1916)
A Stranger in His Own Home Jane's Mother (1916)
The Model Husband Mrs. Gossip (1916)
The Arrival of Perpetua Abigail Majendrie (1915)
Actress

Alias Jimmy Valentine Nurse (1915)
Archive footage

The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986)
Archive footage

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Hollywood Bound (1947)

Did You Know

Veteran English-born character actress, in America from 1915. She initially acted in silent films made at Ft. Lee, New Jersey. During the following three decades, she carved out a career as thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding ...