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Nora Cecil was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras.
Born
Thursday, 26 September 1878
Died
Tuesday, 01 May 1951
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Big Parade of Comedy | Actress in 'Hollywood Party' / (archive footage) | 1964 |
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 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Big Parade of Comedy | Actress in 'Hollywood Party' / (archive footage) | 1964 |
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 | 1943 |
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 |
Tish | Spinster | 1942 |
Apache Trail | Stagecoach Passenger | 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 |
Those Were the Days! | Mrs. Moffett | 1940 |
Anne of Windy Poplars | Miss Blecker | 1940 |
Queen of the Mob | Mission Worker | 1940 |
The Captain Is a Lady | Lady Buying Groceries | 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 |
Mr. Boggs Steps Out | Widow Peddie | 1938 |
No Time to Marry | Rusty's Aunt | 1938 |
International Settlement | English Woman | 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 / Mrs. Potter - Landlady | 1936 |
Way Down East | Townswoman at Party | 1935 |
Grand Exit | Miss Appleby, Third Secretary | 1935 |
Slightly Static | Beauty Products Announcer | 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 |
The Merry Widow | Animal Woman | 1934 |
6 Day Bike Rider | Choir Leader | 1934 |
Opened by Mistake | Head Nurse | 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 | Schoolteacher / Teacher | 1934 |
Glamour | Nurse | 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 / 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 / Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited) | 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 |
That's My Boy | Concerned Mother / Athens Townswoman | 1932 |
Hot Saturday | Gossip on Telephone / Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited) | 1932 |
Girl Grief | Miss Tuttle, Principal | 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 Ruling Voice | Malcom's Nurse | 1931 |
The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Nasty Prison Nun | 1931 |
Caught Plastered | Miss Loring | 1931 |
Street Scene | Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker / Alice Simpson | 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 |
Hell's Angels | Helen's Maid | 1930 |
Outward Bound | Third Gossip | 1930 |
Little Accident | Dr. Zernecke | 1930 |
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu | Curious Passerby at Fu's Funeral | 1930 |
Seven Days Leave | Amelia Twymley | 1930 |
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 |
Too Many Crooks | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1927 |
Setúbal | Mrs. Lodge | 1927 |
The Demi-Bride | School Teacher | 1927 |
The Scarlet Letter | Townswoman | 1927 |
The Silent Rider | Mrs. Randall | 1927 |
The Passionate Quest | Mrs.Flint | 1926 |
Midnight Faces | Mrs. Hart | 1926 |
Chip of the Flying U | Dr. Cecil Grantham | 1926 |
Lightnin' | Passerby in Buggy | 1925 |
The Deadwood Coach | Matilda Shields - in play | 1924 |
Darwin Was Right | Aunt Priscilla | 1924 |
That French Lady | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1924 |
Manslaughter | Lydia's Chaperone | 1922 |
Timothy's Quest | Townswoman | 1922 |
Red Foam | Undetermined Role | 1920 |
Behind the Door | Townswoman | 1919 |
Miss Crusoe | Miss Meeker | 1919 |
The Love Net | Miss Prudence Tilly | 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 Little Duchess | Orphanage Matron | 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 |
The Model Husband | Mrs. Gossip / Mrs Gossip | 1916 |
The Arrival of Perpetua | Abigail Majendrie | 1915 |
Alias Jimmy Valentine | Nurse | 1915 |